Mini Spotlights

[Sweeney]

Well said i wouldn't be spending anymore for a while but here i go again :sleepy:

Wanting to get some spotlights, really liked the look of the PIAA ones but as usual im going to end up going down the warranty approach, although the bmw ones rust and that is the catch 22 for me. I do not want to see any rust on my car if i can help it, all be it on a bolt or two at the spot lights :clown:

How could i prevent the rust from even starting? Has anyone treated theres and it has prevented it?

[Scottie]

quote:Originally posted by Sweeney

Well said i wouldn't be spending anymore for a while but here i go again :sleepy:

Wanting to get some spotlights, really liked the look of the PIAA ones but as usual im going to end up going down the warranty approach, although the bmw ones rust and that is the catch 22 for me. I do not want to see any rust on my car if i can help it, all be it on a bolt or two at the spot lights :clown:

How could i prevent the rust from even starting? Has anyone treated theres and it has prevented it?


cover the bolts in vasaline;)

[Sweeney]

that'd just wash off every time it rained :(

[X30YES]

cover the bolts in vasaline :approve:, or copperslip paste (messy tho),
I told you before in other threads Dissimilar metals dont get on well together , no matter who makes the lights get the S/S brackets , why you no wissen ;):p:D:D

[Sweeney]

Got a link to the brackets? Last time i spoke to *the dealer* they said they wouldn't treat mini brackets but would use other brackets if i wanted... :)

Yes i know you said angus, i did listen and take it in but i just wondered what everyone else's solutions were, if they had any :I

[X30YES]

quote:Originally posted by Sweeney

that'd just wash off every time it rained :(
Nope

[sedgie]

i have been puttin vasaline on mine;):D

[X30YES]

quote:Originally posted by sedgie

i have been puttin vasaline on mine;):D
Least you listen ;)

[AeroJonny]

put clear nail varnish on them...should form an effective barrier from water and air.

[Scottie]

just use lipstick well I mean lip balm for chapped lips nice handy to keep in car and works a treat.:cool:

[Sweeney]

i don't want to have to keep putting stuff on them if i can help it :p Will have a ponder, angus im right in saying your spots aren't mini's aren't i?

[X30YES]

Wrong :p:D. but it was 50 - 50 tho :approve:

[Sweeney]

oh :clown:

i'll have a wee think about the spots then, really itching to get the piaa's but my luck would mean having them fitted, working for a week then boom all the fuses blow and the battery melts ;)

[X30YES]

Get some wipac (http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?sofocus=unknown&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=wipac+spot+lights&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&bs=Search&fsop=1&fsoo=1&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D3&sadis=200&fpos=NR30+3HZ&ga10244=10425&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=) lights , just as good if not better , warranty ...blah , get the lights on man and save £200 a pair

[Sweeney]

if i get aftermarket, it'd be piaa's have my heart set on them :(

[X30YES]

FFS manboy get them and stop Faffin about for another three months ;)

[Sweeney]

nooo! you can't make me! :evil:

lol

need to see if i can persuade a dealer to fit them 8)

[sedgie]

aye save yersel some money n stop being a fud!:p

[Sweeney]

oi!


quote:Fud

\Fud\, n. [Of uncertain origin.] 1. The tail of a hare, coney, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Burns.

2. Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy. :p:D:D

It'll take at least another 10 changes of mind before i do anything, just have a wee nosy at some of the spots on craigs run/andy&lenores run then see what i think :D

[sedgie]

Fud=F@nny:p
I have the minisport ones on which are are wee bit bigger than the rest.....but saved money on them:p......DO THE SAME!;)

[X30YES]

quote:Originally posted by Sweeney

nooo! you can't make me! :evil:

lol

need to see if i can persuade a dealer to fit them 8)


Just tell them to fit them :clown::D:D, get them done locally ,drop the car off in the morning get a car for the day and pick yours up at the end of play that day , easy as that :eek:

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h124/ab2pcs/9af77ac7-1.jpg
:p:p

[Sweeney]

i know what fud means and what you meant it as lol

ok, 9 more changes of mind to go ;)

[X30YES]

}:{ exactly

[Sweeney]

wind up ba****ds so yi ur! :blackeye::p

[Scottie]

quote:Originally posted by Sweeney

nooo! you can't make me! :evil:

lol

need to see if i can persuade a dealer to fit them 8)


why :question: go to some one like Lucas or cockburns in Larbert they will make a much better job than the dealer as it what they do for a living.:cool:

[sedgie]

<COUGHS>....young laddies:p

[Sweeney]

Yeah i remember what you said fiona, again ill need to have a think about it :p, 8 more to go then ;)

[stoney]

just get the stainless stell ones they wont rust !!!

[illegalhunter]

what about getting a group buy for them i think we could get atleast 20 folk to pitch up

[Sweeney]

for spotlights? i think not :(

[illegalhunter]

anybody got wipac spots seen them on ebay are they any good?

[X30YES]

quote:Originally posted by deerslayer

anybody got wipac spots seen them on ebay are they any good?
Just the same ,if not better than the BMW ones , and with a clear lense and a better beam .Also a good bit lighter on the pocket as well .The only difference is that the Wipac is a one wire system ,+ and the - to earth , bmw use two wire and earth else where