Skimmed discs

[Ryan_Pestell]

Haven't had 5 mins spare yet , but definitely will do one Motorsport season has calmed down a bit, give it 2-3 weeks then I'll start doing all the trick bits to the car

[swannny]

did you get the slim line ballasts ringo?

could i ask where you managed to fit yours? didn't ringa have them just behind the headlights?

[el_ringo]

I got the non CAN bus 55W from hids4u with their normal ballast size. They are cable tied to the metal clips for the time being. If you order a set I found a promo code that gave around 25% off.

[Mr Footlong]

Confused. what does this involve exactly? Does it involve tearing out the existing main/full beam lamps? I would love better night lights. I had what I called bunny dazzlers on my last scoob. The big ass floodlights on the front which I then fitted the most powerful bulbs I could get my hands on, beefed up the wiring and the fusing. Down a straight you could see forever, absolute daylight and I have never had a car that had even a third of the brightness on full beam. Miss them soooo much.

[Shoppinit]

Yeah, I think we are going to need more information on this mod... Can never have too much light at night.

[Mr Footlong]

Nope, I could be sad and tell you a few stories about things that we got up to with mine but I would borte most to tears.

[Shoppinit]

Dude, we are talking about LED number plate lights amongst other things. We are beyond reasonable thresholds of boredom. Bring it on, this thread is trashed anyway.

[el_ringo]

In a nut shell... remove halogen bulb, plug in bulb connector to ballast lead, fit hid bulb in, mount ballast. A small hole is needed in the back of the black cover.

On my very first car (a 1.0 Metro) I fitted two 100W bulbs and a pair of 55W spots. The poor little alternator really struggled with that and a bunch of sub amps.

[swannny]

jeseus ringo, we're not related are we?? on my first car(mg metro) had two sets of the biggest halfords spotlights, two sets of fogs, and then a monstrous incar set up, with a pioneer 21" sub cut into the back seat, 4 kenwood amps, in a car which didn't even lock!!

i was such a muppet in my younger days..!

[Shoppinit]

I used to use monster Cibié spots on my cars when doing 12 car rallies. Brilliant for night driving and burning other's drivers retinas to a crisp.

[el_ringo]

LOL, if you had a fast Ford in between that and the RS that would be too similar. Mine was the opposite end of the spectrum, a clubman. I can live with my Max Power shame (just).

[swannny]

LOL, if you had a fast Ford in between that and the RS that would be too similar. Mine was the opposite end of the spectrum, a clubman. I can live with my Max Power shame (just).

hell no, when i killed the metro, i went up in the world..to an mg maestro 1.6, which talked to me!!ah the old school days!

[el_ringo]

I tried to get a video taken on the phone when I passed over the peak district last week, but the phone is too pants. I will try something else soon...

[Nobby]

You need to be carefull with HIDs chaps. The new MOT rules come in around April, so you might need to find yourself a friendly MOT tester

On the original subject: It'd be good to know what the minimum thickness of discs is too. I've keep wondering why do you need to replace the whole disc when they are worn/warped. Surely they are 2 piece dics with an alloy central rotor that can be kept and bolt on a new disc????

[Shoppinit]

The minimum thickness is stamped on the disk.

Min 32mm for the fronts 20mm for the rears.