Why no polycarbonate fog lenses?

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Latitude48 wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:36 pm Here's a picture of the fog/driving light covers. Surprisingly, they are still available direct from the manufacturer in New Zealand. In US dollars the price is a bit over $71/pair, which is pretty cheap to protect expensive lights. These are UV stabilized Acrylic. Here's the link: https://www.airplex.co.nz/product/1549- ... clear-pair
Nice find. Do they look "normal" on the car? The factory lens has ribs and such to the inner guts of the light are not on display. These look perfectly clear... Or do they go over the factory lens just to protect them?

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Tom wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:51 pm
Latitude48 wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:36 pm Here's a picture of the fog/driving light covers. Surprisingly, they are still available direct from the manufacturer in New Zealand. In US dollars the price is a bit over $71/pair, which is pretty cheap to protect expensive lights. These are UV stabilized Acrylic. Here's the link: https://www.airplex.co.nz/product/1549- ... clear-pair
Nice find. Do they look "normal" on the car? The factory lens has ribs and such to the inner guts of the light are not on display. These look perfectly clear... Or do they go over the factory lens just to protect them?
As I said, I never installed them... but these do fit OVER the stock lens and the two plastic trim pieces.
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Latitude48 wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 4:02 pm
Tom wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:51 pm
Latitude48 wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:36 pm Here's a picture of the fog/driving light covers. Surprisingly, they are still available direct from the manufacturer in New Zealand. In US dollars the price is a bit over $71/pair, which is pretty cheap to protect expensive lights. These are UV stabilized Acrylic. Here's the link: https://www.airplex.co.nz/product/1549- ... clear-pair
Nice find. Do they look "normal" on the car? The factory lens has ribs and such to the inner guts of the light are not on display. These look perfectly clear... Or do they go over the factory lens just to protect them?
As I said, I never installed them... but these do fit OVER the stock lens and the two plastic trim pieces.
Hi,
Just curious...
Have you installed these covers as yet?
If so, how do they mount to the lens assemblies?

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Gaspowered wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 10:54 am
Latitude48 wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 4:02 pm
Tom wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:51 pm

Nice find. Do they look "normal" on the car? The factory lens has ribs and such to the inner guts of the light are not on display. These look perfectly clear... Or do they go over the factory lens just to protect them?
As I said, I never installed them... but these do fit OVER the stock lens and the two plastic trim pieces.
Hi,
Just curious...
Have you installed these covers as yet?
If so, how do they mount to the lens assemblies?

Cheers
Unfortunately, I have not installed these covers yet as I'm waiting until I install my Euro driving/fog light combo lights. I'll pull them out of storage and see how they attach. As I recall one end fits around one of the clear trim pieces and the other end attaches with a screw used for the trim... but I'll check and let you know.
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Latitude48 wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:36 pm Here's a picture of the fog/driving light covers. Surprisingly, they are still available direct from the manufacturer in New Zealand. In US dollars the price is a bit over $71/pair, which is pretty cheap to protect expensive lights. These are UV stabilized Acrylic. Here's the link: https://www.airplex.co.nz/product/1549- ... clear-pair
These look like the one I bought, theyre not a good fit and I gave up trying to make them work. They dont match the shape of the bumper

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These guards are nice, Theres a thread on renn list I started a while back about Morimoto maybe doing a complete lighting upgrade package for the 951.

Morimoto said they are working on it. Something similar to what they did for the Ferarri F355.

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MoeMonney wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:45 pm These guards are nice, Theres a thread on renn list I started a while back about Morimoto maybe doing a complete lighting upgrade package for the 951.

Morimoto said they are working on it. Something similar to what they did for the Ferarri F355.
Dropping in for updates...

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