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[beardylondon]

Yeah it's great in busy traffic, especially when a SUV is up close and they have made it harder from themselves to see my brake lights and/or indicators. I thought about the Audi style swoosh ones, but it is just too wanky to bother with.

 

 

This is mine, which I made myself using 2 x strip LEDs, the flat kind that have 3M tape on the back. I mounted the strips on an L shaped piece of plastic, gorilla tapped to the top of the rear screen, and it's stood up pretty well for 5 years. I wired into rear brake lights and indicators and being a Mk1 theres a big gap where the parcel shelf meets the C pillar so very easy to run the cables.

I wanted it as covert as possible, not to spoil the look of the Mk1, so I carefully covered the strips with Matt black sticky tape, so only the LEDs are visible.

Video won't embed, so here's a link:

https://imgur.com/a/ZVPneSw


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That is very smart, I love the winkies, must be useful in Laaandon town too.
Next thing is to do them like the newest cars are doing where the winky LEDs progress along the strip

 

Edited by beardylondon, 30 June 2020 - 10:29 AM.