Do PIAA covers fit normal standard driving lights
22 January 2011, 01:42 PM
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Do PIAA covers fit normal standard driving lights
As above really guys. I don't know if the whole PIAA lamp & fitting kit is needed or I can just fit the covers to my original lamps.
It's only the look I'm going for so don't really want to pay out for new lamps.
It's only the look I'm going for so don't really want to pay out for new lamps.
22 January 2011, 02:17 PM
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Firstly, there are no driving lights as styandard,they are FOG lights.
Secondly, no, the covers off the PIAAs will not fit, they are specifically for the PIAA lights only.
However, you may be able to bodge something up if all you want is the look. Try slots in the sides of the PIAA covers, and zip-ties around the light?
Secondly, no, the covers off the PIAAs will not fit, they are specifically for the PIAA lights only.
However, you may be able to bodge something up if all you want is the look. Try slots in the sides of the PIAA covers, and zip-ties around the light?
22 January 2011, 02:34 PM
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Firstly, there are no driving lights as styandard,they are FOG lights.
Secondly, no, the covers off the PIAAs will not fit, they are specifically for the PIAA lights only.
However, you may be able to bodge something up if all you want is the look. Try slots in the sides of the PIAA covers, and zip-ties around the light?
Secondly, no, the covers off the PIAAs will not fit, they are specifically for the PIAA lights only.
However, you may be able to bodge something up if all you want is the look. Try slots in the sides of the PIAA covers, and zip-ties around the light?
Don't like to bodge so new lamps it is then.
Are these the correct ones? They're the 80 series.
http://www.piaaonline.co.uk/category/81/80-Series
22 January 2011, 02:40 PM
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Those are the ones, but you'll need to organise fitting if you don't ALREADY have PIAAs, they don't fit like the foglights do
The kit supplied by Subaru had a fitting kit with it, IIRC it involved drilling the bumper support bar.
Search, and you might find 'em cheaper.
Also: PIAAs suffer from one fault and it's that the lens/reflector deteriorates over time. If it were me, I'd paint the rear of the refelector and it's join with the glass with a decent underseal to keep out the moisture. Something like tetrasyl. A strip of black tape round the seal between glass and back might help too, I always did both to my Cibie Super Oscars.
The kit supplied by Subaru had a fitting kit with it, IIRC it involved drilling the bumper support bar.Search, and you might find 'em cheaper.
Also: PIAAs suffer from one fault and it's that the lens/reflector deteriorates over time. If it were me, I'd paint the rear of the refelector and it's join with the glass with a decent underseal to keep out the moisture. Something like tetrasyl. A strip of black tape round the seal between glass and back might help too, I always did both to my Cibie Super Oscars.
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Cibie Super Oscars. That takes me back to my mk1/2 days. If only I knew then how much they would be going for now.
Thanks for the advice. Useful & much appreciated.
Thanks for the advice. Useful & much appreciated.
22 January 2011, 03:18 PM
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The PIAA's are the 2nd best lamps I've had on my cars... narrowly beaten by my Hella 1000FF + HID set-up.
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P.S. If you get the drive lamps they effectively have a main and a dipped/fog beam.
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P.S. If you get the drive lamps they effectively have a main and a dipped/fog beam.
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