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S40 / V40 '96-'04 General Forum for the Volvo S40 and V40 (Classic) Series from 1995-2004. |
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SIDEMARKER clear or amberViews : 20893 Replies : 55Users Viewing This Thread : |
View Poll Results: sidemarker colour preference | |||
clear | 50 | 63.29% | |
amber | 25 | 31.65% | |
other | 7 | 8.86% | |
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Oct 4th, 2013, 08:59 | #21 | |
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Once it's properly dark I think they are actually brighter than with the orange reflector/white bulb set up... Each to their own! David |
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Oct 4th, 2013, 23:53 | #22 |
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clear bulbs in mine , was like that when i bought it
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Oct 6th, 2013, 18:13 | #23 |
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Interesting....I though dedicated side marker lights on any vehicle in the UK had to show amber?
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Oct 6th, 2013, 18:31 | #24 |
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Yep, they have to be clear by law. Any garage that says otherwise is wrong or just doing you a favour by letting the car pass. I wanted to put LEDs in my side lights but volvo said they were too bright and would fail an MOT with them. Police don't like them either.
I do however have LEDs in the number plate lights but maybe they have different rules? |
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Balls. ORANGE by law, not clear, and too late to edit haha.
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Oct 7th, 2013, 08:41 | #26 |
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Thanks Alex - I thought that's what you meant - didn't like to point it out!
Number plate lights may well be different - they are to illuminate something else, whereas side markers are just positioning lights. David |
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After Rear Before After Looks much better with clear IMO EDIT: WTF - How did I bump such an old thread? This was on top of my threads for some reason LOL....Apologies all! That'll teach me for not reading dates Last edited by Alex121; Sep 28th, 2014 at 21:27. |
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You're a super goat they see the sparks from youre pipe before they see youre lights liberate Clear for me I tinted my orange ones black they looked good aswell.was never keen on orange. |
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Sep 28th, 2014, 22:04 | #29 |
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Smoked or Clear
I detest orange plastic on any part of my cars I just think they look old and it's one of the first things I would try and change. I went for smoked with orange LED's but anything would look better than ORANGE, as long as you display an orange light then it's doing it's job. I have a bit of ocd and IMO they just look wrong
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Sep 28th, 2014, 22:07 | #30 |
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They proberly put them on there for the American market a lot of Yankee cars have them fitted timmy, I like you can't see the point in having them.
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