bretti_kivi
Member
Just a silly question: anyone else here run driving lights? If you do, where have you installed them and how do you protect them?
Quick backstory; I had Comet 200s on my car for a couple of winters and they were great. Then I decided to integrate them into the grill and the project died. Familiar, I know... I haven't used the car much in winter for a while.
Last winter my wife got fed up with her lights and we installed another pair onto her car. Within 2 weeks, one glass was broken. The 307 went this week, leaving the A2 as the family car.
I scored some Xenon driving lights off the 'bay recently and I want them on my A2 ASAP; they need to be sturdy (the bonnet isn't as stiff as you might think...) and I want to protect them somehow. Stoneshields exist for the standard comets, but the only place I can find them is in the US with $75 shipping for a $25 order. Meh.
Your thoughts, please. I'll be wiring them onto a relay with a blue-lit 20mm round switch. That will join the others in the roof and use a pair of 20+A SPDT relays at the headlights themselves to divert power to the driving lights. I don't want to use them for flash - I'll kill the bulbs - and I can't leave all six lights on - ref 75 is filled with just the driving lights.
Bret
Quick backstory; I had Comet 200s on my car for a couple of winters and they were great. Then I decided to integrate them into the grill and the project died. Familiar, I know... I haven't used the car much in winter for a while.
Last winter my wife got fed up with her lights and we installed another pair onto her car. Within 2 weeks, one glass was broken. The 307 went this week, leaving the A2 as the family car.
I scored some Xenon driving lights off the 'bay recently and I want them on my A2 ASAP; they need to be sturdy (the bonnet isn't as stiff as you might think...) and I want to protect them somehow. Stoneshields exist for the standard comets, but the only place I can find them is in the US with $75 shipping for a $25 order. Meh.
Your thoughts, please. I'll be wiring them onto a relay with a blue-lit 20mm round switch. That will join the others in the roof and use a pair of 20+A SPDT relays at the headlights themselves to divert power to the driving lights. I don't want to use them for flash - I'll kill the bulbs - and I can't leave all six lights on - ref 75 is filled with just the driving lights.
Bret