In Reply to: are the 500's the big round ones? someone had a.., baggsly [Profile/Gallery] , Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:08:06

Yeah, the round ones. (see link).

They come with harness & switch that I added to the console just in front of the shift. It glows green and is reflected off the top of windshield (heads up display), so it's easy to tell it's on from that location.

I wired them to the highbeams so that when when the switch is on, the Hellas go on with the highbeams and if I'm driving with traffic, I'll switch them off and just have regular highbeams. You really just want to use them on fairly empty roads, as they'll probably burn a hole in the retinas of oncoming traffic if they get too close.

The nice thing about the 500's is that if you mount them correctly, recesses in the hood pad will wrap right around them when the hood is up.

To mount them, I just bought standard 8" 90 deg. brackets at the hardware store and drilled holes to fit the bumper bolts that hold the fog brackets in, slipped them through the little bumper slit openings just under the grill (87+ style), then trimmed the horiz. front of the bracket to a few inches and drilled a mounting hole for the ligh bracket, then trimmed the light bracket bolt a bit so it doesn't bite into the bumper. I mounted the lights about a cm or two forward of the grill, which just gives the right clearance for an open hood, and visually fit nicely into the grill border itself, looking straight on.





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http://www.4by4connection.com/hel500drivli.html

• hella lamps, 85S900, Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:49:55
  • Pic, Rogozhin, Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:31:30
    • Working link-nevermind the others., Rogozhin, Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:22:01
    • Pic Retry, Rogozhin, Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:20:37
  • fogs on bottom, hella 500 drivers on top - you won't be, sorry!, Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:16:33
    • are the 500's the big round ones? someone had a.., baggsly , Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:08:06
      • Re: are the 500's the big round ones? someone had a.., speegee, Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:46:06 <-- Viewing This Message
        • Re: are the 500's the big round ones? someone had a.., Rogozhin, Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:24:17
          • The Hella 500 is round, Finch, Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:43:04
            • Re: The Hella 500 is round, Rogozhin, Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:23:55
        • would it be possible, Finch, Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:11:44
  • Hella 530, Ken , Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:06:49

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