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Subject:Re: U.S. and European spec. headlights
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:01:53 +1300

>it exists for vws. yep. but only to go down, not up. this is so you can
>compensate for high lights when you have a heavy load in the back push
>the front up.  I'm sure some tinkering could make'em go up and down
>though. The best we can do here are e-code lights.
>
>Brian T. wrote:
>>More useful things that I wish my Vanagon had...
>>
>>While doing my two tour of Navy duty(s) in Spain and
>>Germany a couple years back I had the joy of driving a
>>Renault M�gane and a little Fiat econo-bubble.  Both
>>had this really cool feature where you could aim your
>>lights on the fly. Just turn a dial up or down and
>>viola lights where ya need'em... Now if I could have
>>that for Christmas!!

Whatever goes up (unpowered, in a gravity-well, 
anyway) must come down. Of course those T3 
adjusters go both up & down.

Wish I had a set too, but they seem to go for... 
too much. APPARENTLY early Golf & Scirocco units 
may be the same or close enough to adapt. I have 
a set of Scirocco actuators, but none of the 
bracketry or locating items, and my headlight 
buckets are not made to fit them. So I've been 
trying (without success) to find buckets to fit. 
Someone did offer me a set of Golf II buckets, 
which apparently has the locations for electric 
adjusters, but this car didn't have adjusters 
fitted, so I'm not sure the buckets would be of 
any use... even if they fit the van.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut
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