Euro Side Markers

[II kings 9:20]

Originally Posted by MGD

Install was about 1 hour each side. I made a template of the cutout, drilled some holes and filed it out. The lights then just snap in. Wireing was the easy part. Just run the wires to the fron head light and splice it in the turn signal wire.

Great work MGD, I am concerned with rust , I love these lights. Did you do anything to your holes to protect them. Worst case in Ohio, a new fender in 10 years- Maybe I am overprotective, I just got it yesterday and it is really a special car.

[dragon]

So they blink with the turn signal then? By the way how come Europe seems more advanced then us us in safety. We invented the car, not them.

[MGD]

Safety is big in europe. As for the first Car, we did not build the first Car.

In 1860, Etienne Lenoir of France invented the first four-wheeled vehicle to be powered by a gas engine. It was a two-stroker that employed two concepts which are considered by some today as new -- stratified charging of the fuel mixture by introducing air and gas separately into the combustion chamber, and water injection. Both methods were employed by Lenoir to keep his one-cylinder engine from knocking.
Sorry

[LWOOD]

Gottlieb Daimler was not far behind Mssr. Lenoir, either.

[C-Man]

Here's an interesting website on the history of the car.

http://www.cybersteering.com/trimain...y/ecars.html#1

It states the fisrt internal combustable engine was in 1807-1813 time frame using hydrogen and oxygen

[II kings 9:20]

Originally Posted by dragon

So they blink with the turn signal then? By the way how come Europe seems more advanced then us us in safety. We invented the car, not them.

They are far more advanced. The roof crush standard in the US is ridiculous. It calls for a metal slab to be lowered on the car's roof weighing 2.5 times the car's weight, the roof must not crush more than 2.5 inches. It has been shown that a rollover may add forces of 4x the car's weight. The Europeans use a dynamic rollover test where the car is tilted on it's side at 45 degrees on a sled moving 30-35 mph and flipped on to concrete and the intregity of the roof and passenger cell is evaluated. Some say "rollover's don't occur that often which misses the point entirely. I have a theorum "everyone knows someone who has flipped a car"!
Case 2. Rear facing infant car seats have only two point fixation and the front end (near the baby's head) is completely free. In a rollover, these seats will rotate 90 degrees to the seat back (anchored at the latch only) Britax (England) is the only company that has recognized this and has a floor anchor strap for rear facing infant car seats. I used a Graco infant seat and fashioned an aftermarket tether strap to anchor to the front seat frame of the X5 and in the Sienna I routed it under the seat and hooked it to the rear tether hook. This locked down the front end of the infant seat with three point fixation and no piroetting up as demonstrated by lifting the seat easily with your hand. I said all that to say I called Graco and asked why they had not addressed this issue and the response should have been we will pass this on to our R&D dept. Instead they said "Britax is a European company and they have a higher safety standard than we do". This is the kind of mentality we have to deal with, from NHTSA and their idiotic air bag regulations (I support air bag use, not our pathetic regulations) to private companies. It is no wonder that Volvo developed the three point seat belt system in 1959 and was not required in US cars for another 10 years.

[upstate]

I wonder what the DC part number is for the side marker lights they send to Europe? Seem if we order them it would look right on the car and not an add on.

[magnesium300c]

You can't order the Euro side markers from any dealer in the US, unless you have the VIN for an export car. The small amber lights on the export 300 pics look very much like the markers for the 300M.

On the 300M, as stated here by someone else, the lights just snapped into the keyed hole left when you removed the fender badge. It was an easy mod if you could get the lights (I had a source a while back). Apparently now they are using different fenders for the export cars, so you have to drill holes. Scary!