but I have a spare one or 2...:)
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And nobody seems to have noticed a subtle change to the Gul's appearance.......new headlights, I know they are a bit of a marmite thing a some will love em and some will think I've gone mad, although I can't complain at the price for a lighting upgrade for under £70 delivered for the pair. The fit still requires a little fettling for me to be totally happy with them, but they do help to give a 20 year old car a more modern look.
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get them bloody mirrors painted the proper colour ;)
Great to see a 854 Gul.
I know that Volvo headlights are terrible ( very poor on dip beam ) but those after market headlights look really horrible. The standard headlights suit the car so much better, it must be my age as I like cars looking 100% oem!
At least you will be able to in the dark now though!
they'll always be a marmite thing with folks, but I then again I like marmite :) I still have the originals kept safe, as I have done always with the mods to our fleet of volvo's as I realise that some day they may need to return to standard to possibly achieve their best market price in the very unlikely event that I could no longer keep them.
well thank you, she does have a bit of rust coming on the lip of the bootlid above the number plate, which I hope to deal with when the weather is nice and warm, as I can't see the point in trying to sort it now. She's also now just weeping a little oil, so some seals are required and a couple of new handbrake cables as they've reached the end of there working life, but other than that she's going like a trooper, blew a few cobwebs out on a private track at 135 a while back, she would have done more but the private track was a bit too short, so anchors tested into the bargain.....:)
Well it was time to get the satellites with the winters on off the car and get her back onto titans for the summer. Unfortunately the 2 front winters have been destroyed in 5 months on the car. I suspected the tracking was the issue here, so I source a full set of tyres from my local wholesaler and headed off to my tyre fitter to have them mounted on the titan's. Back home and fitted the wheels and done a couple of short trips to settle the suspension, before returning to the tyre peeps for a quick suspension checkover and getting the tracking sorted, the suspension all appears ok with no undue movement, the same could not be said for the tracking, which was a mile out so was duly adjusted as necessary. The steering is much nicer now and the steering wheel is straight again, rather than being offset to the drivers side. The steering still has a slight pull to the passenger side but the road surface wasn't great when I checked it.
Also the Gul has taken centre stage on VT's FB page in a very nice photo from their Thockmorton meet last year......thanks Stephen...:)
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...3d&oe=57C2F946
Very welcome Adrian... :B_thumb: