Bye Bye Comet 200's Hello Wipac's

[donkeyontheedge]

Following on from the theft of my Comets from Bluewater I have now fitted a pair of 5" chrome Wipac's.

They are a nice lights but not in the same league as the Comets but I am not prepared to hang another £160 worth off the front off the car only to have them half inched. The Wipac's were £36.

I will wire them up at the weekend.

BTW, I bought them off of ebay from a guy trading under the name of Road Race and Rally. I can highly recommend him. I paid on Sunday, they were delivered this morning the 18th August.

[GR33NIE]

Quote: Originally Posted by donkeyontheedge

They are a nice lights but not in the same league as the Comets but I am not prepared to hang another £160 worth off the front off the car only to have them half inched. The Wipac's were £36.

I will wire them up at the weekend.

BTW, I bought them off of ebay from a guy trading under the name of Road Race and Rally. I can highly recommend him. I paid on Sunday, they were delivered this morning the 18th August.

Ive heard other good things about those lights and id love to know what they look like once on, let me knw Bargain @ £36 instead of dealer prices!

[Aberdeen Al]

Quote: Originally Posted by donkeyontheedge

Following on from the theft of my Comets from Bluewater I have now fitted a pair of 5" chrome Wipac's.

They are a nice lights but not in the same league as the Comets but I am not prepared to hang another £160 worth off the front off the car only to have them half inched. The Wipac's were £36.

I will wire them up at the weekend.

BTW, I bought them off of ebay from a guy trading under the name of Road Race and Rally. I can highly recommend him. I paid on Sunday, they were delivered this morning the 18th August.

I've also got a set but haven't fitted them yet - they look good in the box & got stainless steel brackets with them too!

[donkeyontheedge]

I will wire them up tonight and will post some piccies

[Richard82]

Can these be placed anywhere along the front grille?

I was thinking of getting 2 sets so I would have a quadlamp setup, as am i right in thinking that BMW no longer do the quadlamps?

I might get them but not wire them up, I wish they would do dipped ones that come on just when the normal beems are on and not only flashing with full beam. Through most of summer I don't use my full beams so they would be cosmetic anyway!

[donkeyontheedge]

Quote: Originally Posted by Richard82

Can these be placed anywhere along the front grille?

I was thinking of getting 2 sets so I would have a quadlamp setup, as am i right in thinking that BMW no longer do the quadlamps?

I might get them but not wire them up, I wish they would do dipped ones that come on just when the normal beems are on and not only flashing with full beam. Through most of summer I don't use my full beams so they would be cosmetic anyway!

I used the Hella brackets which dictate the position of the lamps due to one end of the bracket locating into a hole in the inner skin of the bonnet. I don't know about other brackets but assume that they will be similar.

I believe that Mini sport due a four lamp set up although that uses a bar to mount the lights from what I can remember.

Construction and Use regulations will prevent you from wiring in the spots to work on dip beam. You would also have a problem with them come the MOT.

I have wired my spots in with a switch on the "negative" side of the "switch side" of the spot light relay. That way I can disable the relay and hence the spots so that they don't operate all of the time.

I put the switch on the negative side on the basis that any fault in the wiring would simply allow the lights to operate rather than "short out " the loom.

The switch that I have used is a miniature chrome item similar to the switches for the windows etc. Works well.