Headlight covers

TheSneakiness · 20-12-2005, 01:54 PM

Anyone know where I can get the headlight covers that have the black outline on them from? And it's practical, not for looks. The Bruce Highway throws up all sorts of crap that scratches bonnets and the like.

AU:PROJECT:UTE · 20-12-2005, 02:01 PM

Mate give your local auto supplier from memory Aunger(sp?) make the ones with a tinted section around the extremity of the headlight lenses. They retail about $65, hope this helps.

TheSneakiness · 20-12-2005, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by AU:PROJECT:UTE

Mate give your local auto supplier from memory Aunger(sp?) make the ones with a tinted section around the extremity of the headlight lenses. They retail about $65, hope this helps.

Thanks for that.

rayner22 · 20-12-2005, 05:57 PM

You can get em from Super Cheap Auto or Repco. Ive got em on mine

Cheap AU · 20-12-2005, 07:15 PM

throw up some pics of what they look like

The Monty · 22-12-2005, 04:07 PM

The are the ones off of sleeper au's car I think, so if you can find a piccy of that, youll have a picture of them.

Duffman · 22-12-2005, 10:01 PM

I had no headlight protectors on my au and removed the bonnet protector probably done about 30,000km on the bruce without them in the last year and not one single scratch and iv followed all sorts of dodgy vehicles.

JC · 22-12-2005, 10:59 PM

What is the point of protecting polycarbonate lights with polycarbonate headlight protectors? Aunger make the ones with the black outline, and in addition to being mildly useful in actually protecting the headlight, they do make the lights look better - especially if you also paint the bezel black (see AUFalcon . com for instructions on how to do that).

buickman · 23-12-2005, 05:47 PM

On the subject of AU H/lights. On my Ghia the surround on the inside is chrome but I've seen other AU's are silver painted . I thought they were all the same execpt the T series. So did the Ghias have chrome on the inside only?

**Peuty** · 23-12-2005, 11:15 PM

I doubt it buickman. My AU Forte lights are a very shiny silver, but not chrome.

buickman · 24-12-2005, 01:26 PM

I've seen 3 different factory headlights from Ford on the AU's XR excluded.

1: The TS type black outs

2: The Chrome type like on my AU1 Ghia

3: At work there are 2 AU3 Futura's with a painted dull goldie silver inside surrounds

trueblue · 26-12-2005, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by buickman

I've seen 3 different factory headlights from Ford on the AU's XR excluded.

1: The TS type black outs

2: The Chrome type like on my AU1 Ghia

3: At work there are 2 AU3 Futura's with a painted dull goldie silver inside surrounds

Got any pics?

Arnt 1 and 3 the same just different colours?

thanks, aaron

buickman · 26-12-2005, 06:12 PM

Here's a pic of my chrome surrounds the other cars at work so hard to get the pic now.

buickman · 27-12-2005, 10:13 AM

I found a pic of the other Au dull surround AU H/L on the aufalcon.com site

Cespenar · 04-01-2006, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by buickman

Here's a pic of my chrome surrounds the other cars at work so hard to get the pic now.

Hey! Did you sneak a photo of my Ghia?

1/99 Ghia. I6. Oxford green. Tickford thingys, like red stuff on tappet cover and wings. Just bought it before Chrissy. (To get rid of CHEAP AUDI)

GlennBA · 27-12-2005, 02:47 PM

pretty sure theres stacks of different types.
-au1 silver bezel
-au2 chrome bezel
-au3 dark silver bezel
-au2 ghia chrome bezel with orange indicator lens
-T1 and T2 body coloured bezel
-T3 black bezel

And so on.. Theres heaps of types of au lights.

LG · 27-12-2005, 02:49 PM

Yeah thats about it, Glenn. The T3 were the best. And the AU3, still looked nice and dark.

buickman · 27-12-2005, 04:11 PM

I really didn't take any notice until one of the company AU3 Futura's parked next to mine. I thought execpting the T series they were all the same.

So that means if you crack 1 down the track you have to chase up the one's that suit your car. What a dumb idea you would think to save costs to keep them all 1 type. I bet thier all different prices as well. The one in second pic is the same colour as the AU3 Futura's

GlennBA · 27-12-2005, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by LG

Yeah thats about it, Glenn. The T3 were the best. And the AU3, still looked nice and dark.

Yeah i love the T3 lights, Although i also really love the T1/T2 body coloured lights. I want to do my lights black like the T3 but i'm afraid i'll break them.

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GlennBA · 27-12-2005, 05:49 PM

can you tell i'm bored..
-au1 silver bezel

-au2 chrome bezel

-au3 dark silver bezel

-au2 fairmont/ghia chrome bezel with orange indicator lens

-T1 and T2 body coloured bezel

-T3 black bezel

LUXO_8 · 27-12-2005, 05:53 PM

yep , thats exactly what they are..

ford did do some wierd stuff and mix em up a bit though, putting chrome in things you'd expect to be silver,
it catches us out sometimes when we only supply one light instead of a pair,...

then ya get panel beaters that go nah its chrome mate (but theyve only looked at the reflector itself and not the insert - which happens to be silver....)

ugh au headlights are a pain!

buickman · 27-12-2005, 06:03 PM

Looks like the AU2 Forte's H/L are the same as the AU1 Ghias

LUXO_8 · 27-12-2005, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by buickman

Looks like the AU2 Forte's H/L are the same as the AU1 Ghias

yep they are, excep for all AU1 headlights had the wiring loom built into the light, where all AU2/AU3 except XR and Fairlane had the wiring loom as a seperate item attached to the car

buickman · 29-12-2005, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MADNC_8

yep they are, excep for all AU1 headlights had the wiring loom built into the light, where all AU2/AU3 except XR and Fairlane had the wiring loom as a seperate item attached to the car

I've change the globes a couple of times & it appeares the same as any car with H4 globes. Not to sure on what you mean

trueblue · 29-12-2005, 11:16 AM

that blue te50 has awesome headlights, i might do mine black like that..

LUXO_8 · 29-12-2005, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by trueblue

that blue te50 has awesome headlights, i might do mine black like that..

LOL aaron....you mean you might get me to do them like that...... like we spoke about already? haha

Smoke Pursuit · 29-12-2005, 01:59 PM

We had to have one replaced on our AU II Mont and they put a Forte one in without the orange indicator lense, it looked stupid but they ended up ordering the right one the next time.

LUXO_8 · 29-12-2005, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ShockWaveXR6na

We had to have one replaced on our AU II Mont and they put a Forte one in without the orange indicator lense, it looked stupid but they ended up ordering the right one the next time.

thats often the panel beaters fault not the headlight supplier....
it falls back on them giving the supplier wrong information....

LUXO_8 · 29-12-2005, 03:22 PM

when you want to remove the headlight (not the globe) from the car, the loom for series 1, xr, and fairmont plug into the car about where the grille is...... and you remove the headlight WITH the loom

on series 2, you disconnect the loom off each globe and where the parklight goes, and remove the headlight WITHOUT the loom

buickman · 29-12-2005, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by MADNC_8

when you want to remove the headlight (not the globe) from the car, the loom for series 1, xr, and fairmont plug into the car about where the grille is...... and you remove the headlight WITH the loom

on series 2, you disconnect the loom off each globe and where the parklight goes, and remove the headlight WITHOUT the loom

Cheers for that