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Postby martygta » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:08 pm

Hi people i want to pick your brain's again i have one good driver's side head light glass & a Naff passenger side any ideas IE. are these only available from renault or can you get copy's all help welcome thank's
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Postby peterg » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:57 pm

I believe some people have had plastic copies made but only getting one isnt going to help. Its a botch of a job fitting them too! There are no glass copies available as far as I'm aware....bite the bullet and buy one from Renault. Its one of those situatons where there are no cheap and easy aftermarket ways round I'm afraid.
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Postby andyh877 » Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:52 am

:idea: Rupert had some headlamp covers made for a spider from perspex not long ago
They are ok for the job as I bought a couple of sets from him myself at a fraction of the cost of a renault item...... maybe he could get some GTA ones made also.... send him a mail it's worth a shot 8)
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Postby gt5 » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:02 am

ive seen a gta with perspex fitted and it looked really crap
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Postby clee » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:20 am

gt5 wrote:ive seen a gta with perspex fitted and it looked really crap



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Postby simontaylor » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:03 am

Have you got any lens covers at all lee or is it a light trick?
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Postby peterg » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:05 am

Depends how well theyve been made and fitted! Ive no problem with it, but the glass originals are curved in 2 directions and have a stepped edge so its difficult to pop down B&Q and knock some up from sheets of perspex. The other problem is if you go the perspex route you'd need to change both.....and its a pain in the asp to do and will end up costing more than just buying one glass one from Renault.
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Postby clee » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:05 am

simontaylor wrote:Have you got any lens covers at all lee or is it a light trick?



Yes , they are trick and light 8)
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Postby clee » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:08 am

I think Dell-boy has some patterns/formers for the plastic ones :?:
Mine came from here .............back in 2000

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Postby peterg » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:23 am

I bought Stephen's plastic ones from him last year but they seemed to be too small....ended up buying one glass one instead.
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Postby gt5 » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:30 am

to be honest yours looks good the one i saw looked crap i think they used thick perspex and it looked really tacky and cheap
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Postby andyh877 » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:59 am

if they have a curved surface, they would need to be vacuum formed, that's what they did wth the spider ones and they came out ok,
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Postby Alan Moore » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:21 pm

I fitted a set of the perspex ones to a friends GTA, that were supplied by David Gentleman. Fitted fine, although they were made so you could replace the blinker as well with the perspex lens. I cut this section off and left the blinker as it was.
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Postby martygta » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:53 pm

Thank's lad's i tried renaualt they want £218 +vat each couldn't realy buy one as it would make the other side look bad & iam to tight to buy two (£500 i don't think so) might try perspex
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Postby clee » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:08 pm

I,ve already got these drawn up ready to produce , I'll get a price together for pairs in 5 mm thick polycarb/acrylic .I have a cunning plan to produce the double curve without the need for vacforming but not totally perfected it yet :wink:
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