Installing Euro's on a 4000Q

[Eric Sanborn]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:44:14 -0800 (PST), Tony Hoffman
<tfh400036 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just got my Euro headlights (cost almost as much as the car). They are the H4/H1 lights.
> 
> My question pertains to mounting them. Do you use the US brackets, or will I have to fab something to mount them?


I have the same setup and mine did not come with brackets either.  The
top outboard bolt is the same as the US so no problems there.  The
bottom two mounting ears required some dremel time on the US bracket
to narrow up the tab so it would fit.  I also had to tweek it just a
bit to change the spacing, but that was easy enough.  I left the
inboard top bolt out.  You could likely rig it up also, but mine are
so solid with 3 mounting points I didn't see the need.

You probably want to cut to the chase and remove the bumper first. 
You can do it without removing this, but you stand a chance of
scratching the brushed metal trim as you likely have them in and out a
number of times during the process.

I added another contact to my turn signals and made them double as
marker lights through the use of dual filament bulbs.  Some day I
might put the side markers on from a late model car, but it has not
been a priority yet.


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Eric Sanborn
http://sofadog.net/4ktq/