gez bay
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i was just wondering if anyone does plastic mouldings for a corsa headlight?
after seeing that focus rs on a mag the other day with a plastic headlight skin with a vent hole cut through it 
would be good for someone to do with the ammount of people who track their corsa, i know you can just take a headlight out, but i dont think you can get pulled (in the day)
[Edited on 01-08-2009 by gez c16b]
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Benkid
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I got one at home me and the old man made, i'll post pics up tomorrow.
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gez bay
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how hard/easy was it to do if you dont mind me asking?
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Is what you want something that is the same shape as a headlight but with a hole in it for a vent? Or does it have shape like a Morette headlight which has got some shape to it?
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gez bay
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yeah same shape as a headlight but just a thin plastic skin moulding of the headlight with a vent like a letter box shape cut into it
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gez bay
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like this
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ed
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If enough people are interested then I could make them for a group buy as the mould for something like that would be small and fairly simple...
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gez bay
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would be if you could get them.
wouldnt imagine it would be hard to make
big sheet of plastic, head it up arond a corsa headlight and cut it to shape. making the clips for the moulding to screw to the pannel would be the hardest
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gez bay
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just typed in corsasport.co.uk into google images and this came up:
looks really nice moulded in
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I was thinking that a fibreglass moulding would do the job nicely. It would mean you could get a nice shape to it and paint it up nicely if you wanted to. I made a dash like that a while back, I wasn't all too keen on it, but I guess if I'd put some more time into getting it right then it could have been good. A lad on here has something similar advertised at the moment if you look in parts offered...
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gez bay
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yeah i looked at them earlier, digi dash looks nice in a corsa, gota couple of other things on my list 'to do' at the moment though lol
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taylor2008
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ive got a digi dash in my corsa xe will get pics to mora of it, it hasnt bein molded in, but it fits well and looks cool.
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gez bay
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i think the digi clock gives the car more of a modern look even though they're out of an older car
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gez bay
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anyone got pics yet?
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alan-g-w
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I think you're talking about headlight protectors, you can buy them from Vaux.
They're for a corsa C but you can get them for the B. Just cut a hole in them and paint if you wanted.
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gez bay
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no im not  look at the focus. benkid said he'd done something simular
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FAZ
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but for a corsa?
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alan-g-w
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quote:
Originally posted by gez c16b
no im not look at the focus. benkid said he'd done something simular
So you're trying to tell me you couldn't make one of them out of a set of those? Half the work's done already. All you would need to do is cut a hole and put a couple of L-shaped brackets on it.
But fuck it, just be arsey and get someone to make them from scratch.
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DaveyLC
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Find a vacuum forming place there are loads of them around.
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Brett
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quote:
Originally posted by gez c16b
just typed in corsasport.co.uk into google images and this came up:
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/4170/digi_dash.jpg
looks really nice moulded in
Funny thing about those digi-dash's is that they look even more dated than the needles they're replacing 
So tacky and never fit right.
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Used to do Vacuum forming at school
But Davey is right, Vacucum form around a headlight and work out a way to mount it, winner
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Benkid
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Heres the one I made, couldn't find any pics of it fitted so i had to P-shop it into place how i had it but you can make it out in the other pics.
It was made from the chrome plastic inside the headlight
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Benkid
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Needs painting after i stopped using it. After the p-shop though i might use it again. It's illegal even though we kept the indicator in.
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Jamie_Hastings1
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Theres a boy on 106 Oc with a headlight mould cut out and meshed.
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