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Old 06-13-2010, 08:25 PM
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Well the weather has been raining almost everyday and the job has been busy so I have not completed the install on my new PSS10's. But we had a dry hour or two today so I did the amberectomy on my front lights. I had bought the silver/orange bulbs a couple of years ago. I really like the way it looks without the amber lenses buried in there.

Next is the darkening of the headlights seem here:

https://rennlist.com/forums/996-foru...eadlights.html

But actually, if it is sunny on Tuesday the PSS10's will come first.
Old 06-13-2010, 08:30 PM
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Pics Dharn it!
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Originally Posted by Dharn55
Well the weather has been raining almost everyday and the job has been busy so I have not completed the install on my new PSS10's. But we had a dry hour or two today so I did the amberectomy on my front lights. I had bought the silver/orange bulbs a couple of years ago. I really like the way it looks without the amber lenses buried in there.
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Pics? You mean like this! Right now it is raining out. But also I have a confession to make. In the 5 years that I have been hanging out on this site I have never posted a picture of my car. And yet I have never been nailed by Tim, or Dell, or Ed, etc. etc. Somehow I have just gotten away with it.

But I am going to take before and after pics of the PSS10 install and finally I may reveal my baby!
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Actually there was this one other picture with my son in the car
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Tease.......

Was it hard to get the pumpkin guts out? How long did it take? I've been wanting to do this.

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PETE!

this is a simple job for a rainy day... takes 20/30 min for the first and 1/2 as long for the second

in an hour with zero money you can make a big improvement !
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$7.99 for the soldering iron at Radio Shack, you need a long thin one, no way my soldering gun would have worked. The first one took 15 minutes, the second 10. Be careful as you can melt the opening in the housing when you are reaching in to the orange lens. Get the bulbs ahead of time, although not necessarily two years ahead of time like I did.
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Originally Posted by Dharn55
Pics? You mean like this! Right now it is raining out. But also I have a confession to make. In the 5 years that I have been hanging out on this site I have never posted a picture of my car. And yet I have never been nailed by Tim, or Dell, or Ed, etc. etc. Somehow I have just gotten away with it.

............
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Damn!!!! How the hell did that happen?????

OK, now that you have 'fessed up, we need some pics, so............ Come on Dharn, post the @#$%^&* pics.... lots of 'em!!!

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yea, Doug, but we all have seen the insides of your car so since beauty is more than skin deep... its all good
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I guess it's safe to say that you have egg white headlights now?
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PETE!

this is a simple job for a rainy day... takes 20/30 min for the first and 1/2 as long for the second

in an hour with zero money you can make a big improvement !
I know I know.......gotta tell ya....sometimes I can do mods on an impulse but for some reason I need to be in the right frame of mind for this one.
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Originally Posted by Sneaky Pete
Tease.......

Was it hard to get the pumpkin guts out? How long did it take? I've been wanting to do this.
me too! where to purchase new ones???
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me too! where to purchase new ones???
Uh, if you want to do this to the car in your avatar, then you just need to replace the amber bulbs with chrome coated amber bulbs.
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Originally Posted by soverystout
Uh, if you want to do this to the car in your avatar, then you just need to replace the amber bulbs with chrome coated amber bulbs.
yes - that car! thanks, can I get the bulbs, etc. at the same place?


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