Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty'
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twofifty AZU
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 Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' samfieldhouse wrote: There not beautiful, but I'm putting safety first. I want the lights to be exactly where people would expect them!
In the flesh they're quite similar to acad rear lights. Who needs indicators anyway? BMWs seem to manage quite nicely without them....... I'd be inclined to get a second set of orange domed indicators and put them below the original as Citroen did if I wanted indicators on the back. They're the same unit as the car front indicators. I'd still dangle them under the valance though. But it is your van.......
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| March 28th, 2011, 12:18 pm |
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louise2cv
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Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' I think it would look lovely with some orange round lights above or below the red ones. Sorry but those are rank. Much love... 
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Jonathan
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Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' Love this van, Sam, but as others have already said, those rear lights are bloody awful 
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Dennis
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Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' In the days when I used to get my AZU250 MoTed in the UK, there was always a problem with lights on the sides of the van body. They show red to the back and white to the front, but they are designed to take a twin filament bulb.
You can wire the sidelights to the lower wattage filament, no trouble.
If you wire the indicators to the higher wattage filament then you fall foul of flashing a white light at/towards the front: it has to be orange.
And if you wire the brakes to the higher wattage filament (a damn good idea as it makes the back of the van really show up when you put the brakes on) you find the tester has some objection to that too - what with old age and my memory I can't remember what it was any longer.
So I just used to disconnect the wire before the test, and put it back afterwards.
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toomany2cvs
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Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' Dennis wrote: In the days when I used to get my AZU250 MoTed in the UK, there was always a problem with lights on the sides of the van body. They show red to the back and white to the front, but they are designed to take a twin filament bulb.
You can wire the sidelights to the lower wattage filament, no trouble.
If you wire the indicators to the higher wattage filament then you fall foul of flashing a white light at/towards the front: it has to be orange.
And if you wire the brakes to the higher wattage filament (a damn good idea as it makes the back of the van really show up when you put the brakes on) you find the tester has some objection to that too - what with old age and my memory I can't remember what it was any longer.
So I just used to disconnect the wire before the test, and put it back afterwards. 'cept Hetty's got orange ears, with a single filament bulb.
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Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' Dennis wrote: In the days when I used to get my AZU250 MoTed in the UK, there was always a problem with lights on the sides of the van body. They show red to the back and white to the front, but they are designed to take a twin filament bulb.
You can wire the sidelights to the lower wattage filament, no trouble.
If you wire the indicators to the higher wattage filament then you fall foul of flashing a white light at/towards the front: it has to be orange.
And if you wire the brakes to the higher wattage filament (a damn good idea as it makes the back of the van really show up when you put the brakes on) you find the tester has some objection to that too - what with old age and my memory I can't remember what it was any longer.
So I just used to disconnect the wire before the test, and put it back afterwards. There were plenty of old British cars that had white indicators, Early Morris 1000's had a very complicated system for the front indicator and side lamp that shared the same light unit.
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EirikJ
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Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' You have made the perfect rear-end for this front end!  Sorry for criticizing.. But actually, it's not that bad, and what's important is that you like it!
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J-dub
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Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' Neil wrote: toomany2cvs wrote: twofifty AZU wrote: Excellent progress, but those rear lights are horrible IMHO. It makes it look like you simply can't be bothered to fix it properly. Seconded. Thirded. fourthed
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Little Louis
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Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' Jameswallace wrote: Excellent progress, but those rear lights are horrible IMHO. It makes it look like you simply can't be bothered to fix it properly. Seconded. Thirded. fithted do it like a 400, I know you've had a few rear enders and don't want any more but it looks sooo much nicer. (other than the lights nice work mate  ) 
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Russell
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Re: Belgian built 1969 AK350 'Hetty' EirikJ wrote:
Sorry for criticizing.. But actually, it's not that bad, and what's important is that you like it!
seconded, thirded and fourthed!
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