anyone found any compact LED or other hi output auxillary driving lights?

I think he means he wants some led sidelights/daytime running lights, like the Audi's and Citroen's etc

or a h1 led hi-output bulb

auxillary driving lights 'spotlights' that would fit next to side light in bumper - not 'cruzin' lights!

need to be hi powered and compact without being silly priced, alternatively what are best options for upgrading headlamp nacelles

HIDs

but are HIDs anything like Rally Hellas? - May not be legal, but set low and switched with mains + isolator for using on back roads only they would be formidable - I am curious if a compromise is available with say projector tech that would give more than HID power and with small area to allow inset bumper mounting (flush)

The coupés standard headlight is a projector type and seem to work well with a HID bulb, but to be honest they couldn't be any worse, in standard form the coupé headlight actually absorbs light from its surroundings making it darker!

I wonder if removing clear cowling would improve things much - they may be scattering light badly due to complex curves

i have no idea what is going on in this thread

^^^^ That makes two of us.

simply a quest for discreet hi efficiency driving lights (not Chav lights) to supplement less than perfect OE lighting - not rocket science!

Alternatively don't buy a coupe.

You appear to find so much wrong with them.

Like this

Replace the less than perfect OE lighting with an HID kit, tried and tested and makes the world of difference. No need to supplement.

I do apologise, i appear to have muddled this thread up with another one i was posting on at the time on another forum, pertaining to the exact ratio of ammonium perchlorate/aluminium shavings required to attain escape velocity. I can't say i've ever found any vehicle, Coop included, which actually needs auxiliary lighting of any kind... There are no shortage of upgrades available for the existing lights & it does appear to have come supplied with front foglamps.

im not an expert on rocket sience but isnt that the same stuff they painted on the R101 Airship

i like that but i think the vw badge would look silly on the coupe

I also found my 350 bhp Scoob wanting - auxillary lights came in very useful when hacking across the Dales and local back lanes - I guess I could have turned the boost down and saved on the Cibies....If we all found the standard car perfect, what would be the point of a mods forum?!

No one is saying you shouldn't mod them....most of us have HIDS..... As explained above

The outer covering of the R101 was made from bullocks intestines which had to be thoroughly cleaned by the female workers. The skins were 'Goldbeater's Skins' and had to be soaked in glycerine and stretched, varnished and made into bags which would lose 10,000 cubic feet of hydrogen per minute through a hole one foot in diameter, in the case of a disaster.

Apologies to Griffster for temporarily hijacking the thread. Back to the compact auxillary modern hipower lighting now...

But what did the R101 have in way of compact auxillary modern hipower lighting . Maybe in there lies the answer he seeks.

Do tell jimbob

Ooookay,
At 02.00am the ship reached Beauvais and passed to the east of the town. At this time witnesses suggested that the ship was beginning to have difficulty with the gusting winds. Some suggested that the promenade lights became obscured and early suggestions were made that the ship was rolling in the winds, however no amount of rolling would explain obscuring of the lights and it seems more probable that intervening cloud was the cause.

So evidently the R101 had no compact auxillary modern hipower lighting, as no amount of roll or cloud cover would obscure this. Perhaps that was the real reason for the crash... Now behave.

In contrast to the R101 which did not have compact auxillary modern hipower lighting as highlighted by Jimbob13, the German airship Hindenburg certainly did.

The hipower lighting was so powerful that when landing in poor conditions at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey it turned night into day.

no no no

the chemicals used to make rocket fuel was also part of the formula used in the paint for the canvas outer silver skin of the R101

although i the hindenburgh designers were concidering fitting HIDS....make sence if your auxillary lights arnt up to it

Thanks guys
So R101 = standard lights and Hindenburg = HIDs

Dope

The R101 did have an asbestos lined smoking room...

So it had asbestos lined smoking room and dope and no compact auxillary hipower modern lighting , what where they thinking

They obviously didn't have a forum where they could ask for input on these neccessities.

Blimping my dope I was thinking more the “Incendiary Paint Theory"
Which was quite bright. Apparently.

Well you do get dope in dynamite so guess it would be bright . Maybe that's Griffsters answer , cover car with dope Although not modern really , damn thought I had the answer

Plasticised laquer.
Re-furb headlight covers. Switch on. Voila !

Ah yes another meaning of dope , we got there in end!!

Pmsl

I thought "driving lights" were fog lights, and therefore illegal unless it's ermmmmm foggy or exceptionally dull ( must......resist.....) ?

Anyway my recommendation would be get a car first then see....

If you are finding your cars 'wanting', id suggest maybe an eye test is in order?

How about night vision goggles Group Buy

Get those carrots down yer neck too.

Now what else affects a mans eyesight?

You know the answer to this more than anyone

Fine needle work/tapestry?

Give that man a bone, so to speak