I AM VAIN!

[trackdemon]

As in I'm concerned about my appearance. Or at least my car's appearance. Anyway, I fitted some of those funky oval white side repeaters to my Chim on the w/end and they do look much better than the orange jobs, resprayed the grill as it was looking tatty and that looks good; now the next stage would be to replace the front indicator lenses with white ones... Anyone know what car there off of / how they fit / where I can get them?

[Podie]

Don't forget to get the silver bulbs, that illuminate orange...! (removes the fried-egg look from the side repeaters)

[raceboy]

Front indicators have been covered a few times, heres just one of the threads.

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=9516&f=8&h=0&hw=front+indicators

Basically the fronts appear to be off a land rover or a tank or somethink, as you can see I've not read it but I imagine the answers are out there somewhere

[duncan hermer]

Peninsula have a black chim for sale with the clear front indicators - big improvement. Neil at Peninsula told me a while back they were off a landrover - no idea what type / year etc.

i don't know if this tallies with the other thread above but if you have no luck try calling them.

[yiw1393]

Peninsula can supply them, cost me about 40 quid including their fitting of them last service, but I'll bet Neil will mail you a set.

[trackdemon]

Haha, so I can get them! The next Q then is how the hell do you fit the buggers? The current ones seem to be pretty strongly attached to the little grills and I don't want to pull the whole lot out - is there a knack to removing the old ones? Are they bonded and if so what should I use to attach the new jobs?
Or shall I just call Peninsula

[shpub]

Bonded in. Might knock out without damaging the paitwork but equally might not. After I struggled for a few weks, I ended up borrowing Tower Views adhesive sealent gun and glued they back while someone held them in place for an hour or so while the sealent cured...

[beljames]

Steve's right. They're bonded in. You can remove them by gentle persuasion or one of a variety of solvents which did the job (don't know which one - I tried them all within 5 minutes of each other - I'm patient like that...)

To replace them, you can rig up some cable ties which you can pass around the back of the indicator unit, pull through the holes in the mounting grill and tighten over the front of the lens, holding it nice and secure. When the adhesive has tried, simply clip the cable tie at the front and remove it. I used simple black silicone sealant to hold mine in.

[MikeyT]

Podie said: Don't forget to get the silver bulbs, that illuminate orange...! (removes the fried-egg look from the side repeaters)

Yeah, but at about £25 a pair they're more expensive than the bloody lenses! I'll suffer the *slight* fried egg look (very well put Podie!)

MikeyT