The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

When you want the best lights you buy cibie/valeo and you have to pay extra for quality.

When it doesn't matter you buy whatever is the cheapest on ebay. Those are all around the same quality.

When you use 100w bulbs Hella is your choice. These have more internal volume.

Easy...

Jeroen.

As for the Hella, I cannot find these anywhere.

Chris.

I did buy the ones with the park light bulb included and that is wired in permanently via an ignition feed so I use them as daytime running lights

I've got the outers with the subsiduary lights, but I haven't wired them in.

To do that, I'd have to add more leads out the back of the bowls and up through the wheel arch gromets, buy (at £6.36 each + P&P) and add 3mm round pin 1 way Lucas RIST connectors in parallel with the 3 way main/dip/earth ones, and run a lead along the loom up to the fusebox, and wind another layer of tape on the leads - running leads out the bowls is probably the hardest part of that (after spending cash), cos I've wound extra tape on the three wires to wedge them into the longtail grommets in the bowls (though I ain't done the wheelarch grommets yet).

You might ask if I have to use 3mm round pin 1 way Lucas RISTS, but they'd have to match the 3 way ones, and I ain't changing them again.

I could do all that. But the question is, is it worth it?


Graham

You could order a headlamp relay conversion set with this optional extra wired in.

Jeroen