Rear light assembly

[Wilder]

Does anyone have a spare rear (nearside) light assembly, or know what vehicle the GTRs assmebly is from?
Any thoughts would be appreciated as the factory dont have them any more .

[GTRCLIVE]

There from a Fiat Coupe the one with the funny looking cut down the side of the bodywork..

[GTRCLIVE]

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www....



Just to show you which model....

[Wilder]

Aha great tx Clive --dont suppose you know what the fron ones are do you? (particularly the front lower lights).
TX for that!

[GtrSimon]

I have some, got them off ebay if you want you can have them for what I paid £10 each +P&P. Regards Simon.

[V8 Vum]

Having not got that far in my build yet, I did wonder about the front lights!

What are they?

What about Bi-Xenon High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps...and Hi untensity LEDs for the back?
Anyone looked at this?

[XTR2Turbo]

To get through SVA with Bi-Xenon you need self levelling and wash wipe.

Probably easiest to retro fit if you really ant to but not sure on the legalities.

David

[V8 Vum]

XTR2Turbo said:

To get through SVA with Bi-Xenon you need self levelling and wash wipe.

Probably easiest to retro fit if you really ant to but not sure on the legalities.

David

Crikey! Why?....I presume there is a technical reason for this, or is this just summat to do with jobsworth?

Ta

[Wilder]

Thanks that would be good Simon -sent you a mail re this .
JK

[GTRMikie]

Wilder said:

Does anyone have a spare rear (nearside) light assembly, or know what vehicle the GTRs assmebly is from?
Any thoughts would be appreciated as the factory dont have them any more .

What are the factory fitting to GTRs now then?

[Wilder]

Available in December, but didnt say what the new ones were as I put the phone down after being told the rear set would be £305 + Vat

[V8OWNER]

maybe they will be LED?

[Wilder]

& at £358 for the rear lights - maybe they are gold leaf also ....

[DHGTR]

i made enquiries with Fiat earlier in my build and the rear lights new are something like 70 quid each!!

[Wilder]

Yes, Fiat are not renowned for being cheap among major car manufacturers for their parts I believe, but £70 is positively cheap here. Lets not forget that the parts to fit our cars are sourced from others, so I begrudge paying a big premium for changing the name to Ultima when its the same thing.

[GTRCLIVE]

http://www.s-v-c.co.uk/lights_rear.html

Try these Led versions. "95mm Ultra bright Leds" I know they fit, but you will have to cut off those horrid inner light pods and bond in a simple flat piece of F/G sheet...
Then try mounting a pair of these behind the rear grill for your fog lights..

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=12696...

There blinding if you look right into them, and Yes they Pass as I used a Pair to get my 2001 Vette though SVA....

Just what I would do....

So that's a total of 170ish including P&P roughly....

[GTRCLIVE]

PS the resistors they recomend on there sight are only 2 quid on Maplin cat....

[V8OWNER]

Wilder said:

Yes, Fiat are not renowned for being cheap among major car manufacturers for their parts I believe, but £70 is positively cheap here. Lets not forget that the parts to fit our cars are sourced from others, so I begrudge paying a big premium for changing the name to Ultima when its the same thing.

70 each..
thats 6x70, £420.. tbh ultima price doesnt sound to bad to me.. for fiat parts?

[Wilder]

I think you will find thats £70 per side, not each light.
live -that looks like a good idea but have a look at www.carbuildersolutions.co.uk for pretty much everything you will need .

[Wilder]

BTW, they have the LED lights on there, along with a lot of really good stuff that we can use for our cars. A friend put me onto them & they will probably save any owner a lot of money in the long term.