Smoked Hellas ??

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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:20 pm

8O just a quick question 8O

:twisted: can anyone recomend a dealer to buy these red hot babys "Smoked Hellas " from please :twisted:


ps and some sort of price
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:35 pm

Brand new can be had for about Ԛ£300.

There are a couple of us on here making/made our own.
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:36 pm

nice to see how we could make are own ?
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:38 pm

Basically, there's a cross shaped insert in the main beam lamp, and the silver reflector in the dipped beam thatr you can see when you look into the light is painted black.

If you do a search in the tech section for smoked hellas, you should find the original thread.
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:48 pm

I think its more like gun metal grey not black.

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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:49 pm

im making my own just need to find something suitable for the crosshairs
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:01 pm

Demlotcrew wrote:I think its more like gun metal grey not black.

Andrew
You sure? My dad's got a gunmetal grey audi, and mine don't look like that!
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:08 pm

Ah righto, I'm going black...should look better?
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:09 pm

Simon wrote:
Demlotcrew wrote:I think its more like gun metal grey not black.

Andrew
You sure? My dad's got a gunmetal grey audi, and mine don't look like that!
Thats harsh :lol:

When i had simons lights they looked grey not black.
Maybe not Audi Gun metal grey but its a dark shade of grey.


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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:17 pm

You been editing posts!!?? :lol:

How did my reply to your post get before it!? :mad:
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:19 pm

:lol:

I wanted to quote you so i deleted my post and started again.
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:43 pm

they are mat black
i ahe one side of a set of smoked hellas with smashed glass and its defenaly black not grey
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Post Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:59 pm

do they look like this?

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Or lighter?

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Post Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:33 am

The one i hae is a hella yours is a home made bosch

just to prove that they are black
here you go
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and this is the car they came off

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Post Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:55 am

I made mine and painted em black. if you all keep buggin E30adam he may post the tech article i sent him. otherwise PM me and i will email you a copy (give your private email as its around 650k with pictures) these below are the finished articles. for the cross i used 2mm galvonised steel sheet you caould also use aluminium sheet, cut em with tin snips and painted em black. the little circles are angel eyes. and these are smoked bosh witha hella thrown in when i broke a lens. the article covers all.

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Post Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:36 pm

they do look good on the car lee.
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Post Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:14 pm

who's good at translating german?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... RK:MEWA:IT

this looks like what we've been looking for!!!! :cool:

has anyone tried them? can anyone translate better than google? i'm unsure what i'll get for my money! it looks like a canversion kit with the cross hairs and black disks...
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Post Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:20 pm

The DIY article is now hosted in the tech section

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Post Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:31 am

cheers adam, my internet connection is so slow and emailing the 650k word doc took 10mins!

enjoy

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