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marley_uk1
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Tue May 19, 2009 10:51 pm

anyone know how to make a set of smoked headlights,
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Wed May 20, 2009 12:43 am

yep.

check the zone wiki.
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Wed May 20, 2009 10:37 am

Cross-hairs look cool though winkeye

Could do both... DIY smoked headlights and then the light shade of film ontop to finish them off and also protect your hard work 8)
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Wed May 20, 2009 9:17 pm

thanks guys, i might try the harder way, but how to make the criss cross thing?

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Wed May 20, 2009 11:06 pm

Just takes abit of time cutting and test fitting until your happy.

A good idea is to try test fitting the cross-hairs to an old bad reflector until your happy with them so you won't scratch the good ones.

The templates on the net are no good as they are for Hella lights and not Bosch... unless yours are Hellas of course.



Here's a pic of one of the sets I did...
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Those ones were actually for an E34 too.
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Wed May 20, 2009 11:14 pm

dave those look top mate, i think doing them like that look a lot better the films..

well done on the job!!
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Wed May 20, 2009 11:16 pm

How about setting up a Group Buy on the cross-hairs winkeye
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marley_uk1 wrote:dave those look top mate, i think doing them like that look a lot better the films..

well done on the job!!
Cheers.

Done a few sets now.

Probably could make up a few sets of cross hairs for people alright when I have some free time...

I'd like to get them laser cut 8)
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I'd definitely be interested :wink:
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Wed May 20, 2009 11:35 pm

il have a set!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wed May 20, 2009 11:38 pm

How does this effect the performance of the lights...?
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