From Uruguay with my V40

[Baffler]

Originally Posted by gatos

Alloys look really great

And the weather too.....it's bleeding snowing here again

Well done, Trufauru, you've been busy by the looks of it.

[V40T4R]

Congratulations on your hard work

[trufauru]

Originally Posted by gatos

Alloys look really great

they turned out ok, like 7 out 10, but much much better than they were before

Originally Posted by Baffler

And the weather too.....it's bleeding snowing here again

Well done, Trufauru, you've been busy by the looks of it.

Indeed we had a nice weather this summer, now we are getting onto winter and we are having a lot of rain (no snow though)

Originally Posted by V40T4R

Congratulations on your hard work

thanks V40T4R, slowly but surely it's coming along nicely

Lets keep up where I left, after I had my wheels refinished I load them up and take them to the tire place


I bought some Toyo's DRB in 205/55R16, I know that it isn't the right factory size, but that size is shared with a lot of cars, and it's a lot cheaper than the 205/50R16 that the factory claims


out with the old


in with the news


and OMG does it looks good :O


a few days later, this arrived on the mailbox


and now I had completed the look




also in the mail was the headlight cover, ever since I bought the car it had a missing cover


but no more, such a tiny detail but makes everything looks better


and thats for now

[Petey80]

Excellent work. It's the little things that count and now your headlight unit is complete and how it should be.

Wheels look well.

[tony1kate]

Great work on your V40 to bring it back to it's best!
If you need another handbrake insert let me know.
We can work something out for just the postage cost from UK.

[Haizum74]

Looks like my car has a twin, just need a spoiler on the back and roof bars :-)

[ITSv40]

Or indeed, triplets.

[Haizum74]

Originally Posted by ITSv40

Or indeed, triplets.

Triplets it is :-)

[trufauru]

Originally Posted by Petey80

Excellent work. It's the little things that count and now your headlight unit is complete and how it should be.

Wheels look well.

thanks Petey80, indeed are the little thing that counts, and sometimes are the hardest to archive.

Originally Posted by tony1kate

Great work on your V40 to bring it back to it's best!
If you need another handbrake insert let me know.
We can work something out for just the postage cost from UK.

hey tonylkate, I'm trying my best to bring it back to its former glory (and better). Which handbrake insert are you talking about?

Originally Posted by Haizum74

Looks like my car has a twin, just need a spoiler on the back and roof bars :-)

Ineed they look alike, the silver is a great color for this cars. I'm on the look for the roof bars, and I have the spoiler but it's broken and I haven't fixed it yet

Originally Posted by ITSv40

Or indeed, triplets.

Yay! triplets! the more the better

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Now a little history, I used to had a 94 Corolla, and I had updated the headlights to the JDM model, and after that I had bought some projectors to retrofit on those headlights but never got arround that and the projectors just sit there


but not anymore, since I have the V40 I've never been impresed by it light output, so I remembered that I had the projectors laying arround, so... hands on with that, off goes the head light (I've mastered the art of remove the headlight without removing the bumper)


a few seconds after that I had the headlight on the bench and cracked open


as you can see my reflector was badly damaged and I think that is why my light output was so bad


Put some latex gloves in order to not leave greasy finger marks on the shinny parts


you can clearly see the greasy marks


and after a little cursing, it was fitted. It actually wasn't that bad, just need to take things with calm. The wires that you see, are for the high beams, but I won't be using them (for now, that's why I didn't cut them)


I had to buy some new H1 bulbs for the projectors, but I kept the original wiring of the car, I just had to disamble the connector and re route the cables.


After I had the projector assambled I went and did a trial fit and a little testing




Since everything worked as it should, I took the lights out of the car and assambled them yet again, and put them on the car and tight everything




I didn't took any before picture, but you have an after shot, and you have to trust me that the light is much much better


And that was the update for now