[urq] Square headligts with yellow lenses .

[Patrick Carlier]

Yes , maybe I should explain this a little further .

It's not the yellow light bulb I'm after .
With France being our neighbours , yellow light bulbs
are common enough .
There once were yellow lens equipped lamps .
The yellow colour was very visible and gave the car a disticnt look .
Compare it to the difference between the red/yellow and the
smoked taillights .

Interesting the 165mm lamps are avialable in the US/Canada .
Round here , a reasonable pair of used ones will easily hit 150 € .
And that is without the trim .

Pat




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis-Alain Richard" <larichard at plguide.com>
To: "'Tom Love'" <theloves at localaccess.com>; "'Patrick Carlier'" 
<p.carlier at pandora.be>; <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:42 AM
Subject: RE: [urq] Square headligts with yellow lenses .


Hi Tom,

Maybe these are not hard to source here in North-America, but over there,
the 110x166 mm lamps were never very popular. That may explain Pat (he's in
Belgium) has some difficulties finding some.

I too have bought some H1-yellows from Hella (Yellow Star, I think) but
these are clearly not yellow-enough compared to the mandatory yellow French
headlamps of the 70-80. That's the color I wanted for mine, to mimic the
French cars of the era. Real yellow lens lamps would be perfect, if I can
find some. You should see the effect in winter...

In the meantime, I was able to install H4-yellow bulbs into the H1 clear
lamps (Hella lamps with a removable h4-sized aluminum adaptor for the
smaller H1) but the light pattern is not optimal.

Louis-Alain



-----Message d'origine-----
De : Tom Love [mailto:theloves at localaccess.com]
Envoyé : 7 octobre 2009 18:59
À : Richard; 'Patrick Carlier'; urq at audifans.com
Objet : Re: [urq] Square headligts with yellow lenses .

Yellow H1 bulbs or the actual 165mm high beam lamp with yellow lens?
I have Hella H1 100w yellows plus Hella H4 100/80 yellows sitting in my
stash box. No yellow lenses though but I do have a new set of clear Cibie
165mm highs and a pair of clear Hella 165mm high/lows sitting here and none
of this was hard to source.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis-Alain Richard" <larichard at plguide.com>
To: "'Patrick Carlier'" <p.carlier at pandora.be>; <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [urq] Square headligts with yellow lenses .


> Hi Pat,
>
> I tried too to install these yellow lens headlamps, but never found new
> old
> stock that were not too expensive.
>
> The solution is to order Bosch 110x166 headlamps : SQB46 (H4 bulb) and
> SQB46H (H1 bulb). (about 125$CDN each pair)
> http://www.boschlightsandmore.com/products_headlight_conversion_kits.htm
>
> And then, find some H4 with the clipped yellow caps, like these :
> http://dbtuned.com/pics/Yellow%20H4.jpg . I bought mine on www.ebay.fr for

> 20
> euros for a kit that contained a dozen other various bulbs from the 80's.
>
> And then, the hardest part : find some H1 yellow for the high beams.
>
> I'm 2/3 complete on my urQ : i'm still looking for the H1 yellows, if such

> a
> thing ever existed.
>
> Louis-Alain
>
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
>
> Has ayone ever seen these .
> I've seen them once on a 1982 coupe .
>
> They originated from a TYP43 turbo .
> The so called 2T . Audi's first turbo car .
> And the yellow lights were France only .
>
> They're an exact match to the pre 1983 ur-q
> headlights and can be substituted .
> It looks real great .
> But helas , impossible to obtain nowadays .
>
> Even the white square headlights are hard to find ,
> and the plastic trim around it is even harder .
>
> Pat
>