Re: Chevrolet Beat LT Cocktail Green: Initial ownership report @All,
Guys, Salbin is blessed with a baby girl recently after a long waiting, So.. I guess we should congratulate him on this first. Sorry mate for publishing it here without your consent but am sure that you will also agree with me that this should be celebrated more than a car mod achievement
Hearty Congrats man. Quote:
Originally Posted by jeganatu To color inside the head lights, we need to carefully open up the sealed outer lens of headlight and doom and cover the reflector area with tapes and paint the inner. After paint dries, replace the outer lens with some glue / sealant. |
Hi, nice mod, I like the paint job on the funky chrome works on the HL fascia. I think this is something unique and a real head turning face lift. Chevy should learn some makeup tips from this .
BTW, while painting why do you need to cover the reflectors with tapes? IIRC, once the glass comes off, HL reflector is already separated, the chrome piece can also be pulled out from the glass? Or you meant to say the turn reflectors? Actually am in the process of putting projectors on HLs and your paint job gave me some spark to subside the over chrome work on the HL assy. I've been planning this mod since I bought my car 2 years back but it never happened due to time limitations and other stupid reasons. Last week I got a spare HL assy from the SVC and that gave me some inspiration to start with. HL glass opening is the real pain than any other installation. How did you manged to open it with hot air blower? It took me more than half an hour to open the spare assy but that gave me an idea how to be gentle when you open the stock HL assy. Quote:
Originally Posted by jeganatu I had painted mine to match the body color. Since we had opened from the inside, we had put a green LED strip. ( I actually wanted white LED s to resemble Audi's DRL, but since we are gonna paint above, my friend said it wont be coming out good. So went for green LEDs. |
Its difficult to match the LED light colours with the body color and more difficult to imitate the Audi DRLs with the puny so called high power LEDs which hardly consumes 1W each whereas the Audi's DRL consumes approx 20W LED cluster on each HL assy IIRC. And its designing and positioning is something very unique: 14 Advanced Power TOPLEDs placed on a flexboard. The required light intensity is controlled by an integrated LED control unit. The result is a punctual light source with an unmistakable contour similar to the appearance of a pearl necklet. Stylish and Safe: OSRAM LED Daytime Running Light for the Audi A4 -- re> REGENSBURG, Germany, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ --
We poor souls can max think of is to go for el cheapo DRLs Quote:
Originally Posted by jeganatu Exhaust muffler on my buying experience thread which I am already started to draft. |
Pls do share the K&N installation pics too as am also after that for a slightly peppy mid range improvement. How much difference in the engine response after the K&N treatment especially the low rpm torque? Sorry am not a tech savvy in this, kindly bear with my jargons if its not appropriate. Quote:
Originally Posted by salbin How easy/difficult was the headlamp lens opening? Was it a DIY? |
Salbin, give me a call, I will give u a detailed account of everything including how to burn the fingers with the blow gun. Quote:
Originally Posted by Salbin I am more interested in this because my next mod(?) will be HID with Morimoto bi-xenon projectors, if time permits..
BTW, how is the performance of your projector fogs? Any pic of the light spread?
Since you have opened the headlight and you got a projector assy, any particular reason for not fixing inside the headlamp?
Is it not bi-xenons?
Please give more details with photos if possible.. |
Hey, you forgot the basics man LOL, HL can't be replaced with fog lamps and vice versa. If you keep it in HL height it can blind the whole traffic without any doubt and you can't see a thing as this doesn't have a cutoff pattern nor have a focused long throw like in the HLs. Oh yes, be ready to receive wild greetings from the on coming traffic for such a wonderful lighting system.
Did you got the MM Kit? is it from Light sense guy? I guess your time will be hard pressed for the mods as you will be spending more time with the baby.
BTW, when is the baptism?
Last edited by sajjt : 3rd May 2012 at 12:10.
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