Where there was once reflectors, now there's lights

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Where there was once reflectors, now there's lights

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Yes gents, finished off yet another project =D>

This is the completion of replacing the front/side reflectors in the front bumper surrounds with lights :-"

And I should also point out that I questioned doing this mod in another thread, but you can see in the photos that there's no way to tell that I chopped holes in the surrounds to install the light assemblies \:D/

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I also uncovered quite a bit of rust, so I guess it was actually a good thing that I decided to dig into this project and at least stop the bleeding [-o< [-o<

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The lights came from an E28, and Ralph in SoCal, of course :wink:

And yes, I tinted them as well, but also used LED's instead of halogen bulbs, which appear to be significantly brighter :-k

Needless to say, I am very pleased with the results, even used black screws :shock:

Lemme know what you guys think :-$
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Re: Where there was once reflectors, now there's lights

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Wow, what an end result! That looks very good! =D>
Unbelievable that BMW didn't make it like this, instead of these elephant ears indicators :?:
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That's genius. =D>
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Well done!
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Thanks guys, not sure just how "genius" it was, however :-k

Paul, the later 88/89 model years did address what you duly noted, why BMW didn't so this in the first place :-?

To meet US DOT standards, they first went with the "elephant ear" front blinker lenses and placed a small bulb in the lower corners to act as front/side markers :-"

The 88/89 version have somewhat slimmer lenses and lighting in the bumper surrounds :roll:

Since I have Euro lenses, which don't have that little bulbs in the lower corners, I had this part of the wiring harnesses available, so power and control of my upgrade was actually rather easy :wink:

I just made cable assemblies to reach the new lights, plug and play, again no harnesses were cut, in typical "Green Shark" fashion [-X

Thanks again for the kind words :lol:
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Well done Bobbo. I’m typically not into the tinted lenses but in that application it actually works well

For anyone else thinking of this modification, I do have a few more lights available. PM me and provide a small site donation and I’ll send 2 with pigtails

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I just found this thread. Getting ready to do same mod; I may have some mylar still laying around to silver it.
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