pics of cibies vs. hella h1/h4's?

[Marc Swanson]

Martin Pajak sent me this message and said it would be ok to send it to the
lists since I don't think he is subbed currently:


> There is an interesting point that has to be made here.
> It is very hard to tell the Hella and Cibie apart.
> The reason for it is they are both of the same design.
> All the parts are interchangeable i.e. you can put Hella
> reflectors in Cibie
> lights (yes, no kidding).
> The only difference is that Cibie has all of the adjusters accessible from
> the front of the car (nice feature) and Hella's have one adjuster that is
> only accessible from the back (big round knob).
> BTW I actually have Hella lenses on Cibie lights ;o).  I found that out
> after seeing both of the units up close.

So are there some Hella lights that have replacable lenses?

> Another nice thing is that the early flat type H4/H1's can easily be
> converted to the sloping kind with new sloping lenses, the rest
> of the light
> is the same (kind of makes sense).  Ralf Wiesner did that on his '84 Ur-q.

neat.  It would make sense that the light housing would be the same..


> Hope this helps.
> You can copy the list on this if you wish.

> Cheers
>
> Martin Pajak
>
> www.quattro.ca


-Marc-


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