Teh Official "Dude Where's My Forum?" Thread, Brought to you by the minds of Box, and her fiancée, Lorelei Options

[Bitter]

Well put me over a barrel and **** me in the ass....one of my dog light bulbs just burned out driving yesterday.

[Box]

I guess you mean fog light? That does sound par for course though.

[Bitter]

Autocorrect can bite my fleshy pale ass.

[Box]

Figured autocorrect was responsible. Speaking of you promised us a picture.

[Bitter]

Yea, let me take on with a light burned out.


I swapped the bulb for a old but good one that will now likely burn out very soon. I discovered that the lens and reflector are not glued together but sealed with a rubber strip and I can take the light all the way apart. Also found some damage to the reflector bowl inside, looks like the start of some rust in a spot, not a spot that's super critical to beam shape or output as far as I can tell but these lights days are numbered, which is too bad because they're JUST right in terms of size.

[Box]

Hmm that's odd even with them being older they were still new old stock? Perhaps it's that vacuum form stuff and it's just a production flaw. Either way kinda lame. The company that made my H4 E-codes, Autopal, also makes a variety of fog/driving lights so maybe they'd have something. I was looking at their bulbs and Hella's bulbs earlier today and I can't help but notice the bulbs offered are near identical, that and the Hella stuff is made in India now where Autopal is from. Highly coincidental.

[Bitter]

Yea, I'll have to measure the dimensions and see if autopal has something similar in size and function for the future. I think those lights I linked that I put on my aunties Capri are autopal.

[Box]

They were. So far I've been pretty impressed with the headlamps and Autopal, definitely good quality for the money. The Hella headlamps probably are better, and they should since they cost twice as much, but I can't foresee them being twice as good. It'd still be interesting to do a side by side comparison though.

[1994Celica]

Look what I bought for my wagon

Bumper asshole didn't send me my bumper if refund me. Thankfully I got a refund from PayPal. Ended up buying another one for cheaper

[Box]

Wooooo gold rims. Also shame to hear on the bumper, at least got PayPal to refund. I hate people. Yay finding a cheaper one though.

[1994Celica]

Yeah I'm excited for both because both were good deals. Wheels have tires that don't look too bad so I'm going to run with them while buying one tire every so often. The bumper is slightly cracked but fixable so I'll do that. Only bad thing is this bumper doesn't come with fog lights but oh well.

[Box]

Could probably find an aftermarket fog light or another o.e. that'd fit and be better anyway.

[Bitter]

I think I'll eventually end up replacing the rectangle fogs with some Hella Micro DE fogs.

[Box]

They can be yours for the low low price of $124 off Amazon.

[Bitter]

Summit has the boxed retail kit for $107 and free shipping.

[Box]

That's not too bad all things considered.

I have been trying to find info from Hella on their bulb's lumen output and expected life but so far not much luck on anything official, their corporate site's layout sucking doesn't help. One retail site I came across showed the standard 60W/55W H4 lasting 175 hours, 100W/80W lasting 100 hours, and the 130W/100W lasting 40 hours. I tried finding some 75W/70W but for some reason the only one Hella has is 24V. I'd like around 1,600-1,800 lumens on low and based on the info on the Daniel Stern site I'd want around 80W so it'd seem like the 100W/80W would be a good blend of life and output. Of course I'd like some official info from Hella, maybe just need to email them.

[Bitter]

Remember those lumens numbers are at 12.8V and life hours are at 14.2. Euro figures at 13.8 for both are going to be more realistic in your situation.

http://store.candlepower.com/64206.html why not these or these http://store.candlepower.com/4-840.html That'll get you up into the territory of almost too much light.

This post has been edited by Bitter: Sep 11, 2016 - 4:00 PM

[richee3]

Took the MR2 for the first "official" drive a few minutes ago. It's not registered so I didn't go far. All seems to be working well for the most part. Burping the coolant is painstakingly slow and still isn't finished. Tach isn't exactly accurate, as it shows I'm idling at ~300 rpm when I'm realistically about 1,500. Temp gauge doesn't work at all and apparently the alt is pushing 17 volts. I'd say I have a ground issue somewhere. Speedo works just fine though, good old mechanical speedo.

[Box]

Because you can get Hella bulbs for like $7-8 each shipped off Amazon. Yeah with the new harness I should be getting pretty much 13.8-14.4V or so at the bulbs. I think I'm addicted to light output, this is how most people must feel about horsepower.

The MR2 is a pain to get the air out of the coolant system, here's a good post I found: http://www.lovehorsepower.com/MR2_Docs/mr2...ling_system.htm

This post has been edited by Box: Sep 11, 2016 - 5:34 PM

[Bitter]

Ah, I've not heard much good about Hella bulbs.