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Old 03-16-2015, 02:21 PM
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Beautiful lights on a beautiful C5 ! George makes quality products that work!
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Old 03-16-2015, 03:41 PM
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I've never been a fan of fixed headlights, but those look absolutely awesome.
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Old 03-16-2015, 05:57 PM
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I think all fixed headlights except for these look like ****. The frog eyes are horrible these are just a work of art. Very nice
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Old 03-16-2015, 06:09 PM
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The RF lights are really pricey, but they look better than the C5R style IMHO.

Your car looks great!
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Old 03-16-2015, 06:09 PM
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The first I've seen I really liked

Tommy, could you give info on your splash guards?
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Old 03-17-2015, 11:28 AM
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That car looks so good and it has certainly given me some inspiration for my recently acquired TR coupe. Just out of interest, what make and size of wheels are they?
The wheels are CCW SP20A 19's up front and 20's in the rear.

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Tommy, could you give info on your splash guards?
Sure, they are APSIS C6 Z06 front and rear splash guards.
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Bump, these headlights are fantastic at night, just drove with them again last night and they work great. Highly recommended for functional reasons.
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Old 06-10-2016, 11:19 AM
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Bump, these headlights are fantastic at night, just drove with them again last night and they work great. Highly recommended for functional reasons.
Just looking at your provided pics it looks like you didn't use the rubber boarder on yours. Do you have any more closeup pics? Damn you covers look glossy like glass! Is there anything special you use. I use mothers plastic polish but yours look great

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Old 06-10-2016, 01:24 PM
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I love these lights but they seem to have been removed from the website? Anyone else run into this issue? Are these a special order item now?
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Old 06-10-2016, 02:01 PM
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They are no longer available to my knowledge with the L bar that follows the headlight line.
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Old 06-10-2016, 03:33 PM
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Best looking non-open/close C5 headlight IMHO...
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Originally Posted by tommypenguin
I did use the rubber stripping but its a little more tucked in than yours. Unfortunately I learned a tough lesson with my shrouds and mounted the resistors for my halos to them, on a day I drove the car 7 hours the resistors got so hot they caused the plastic on the shrouds to bubble. Ended up mounting them to the headlight chassis instead. Eventually will order another set of shrouds.

The CF looks good on yours, you wrapped them? The only thing I did with the headlights was put an extremely small amount of optimum gloss coat on them while I did the whole car and then clean with meguiars glass cleaner.
Yep 3m dinoc wrapped them has held to the heat very well using 3m primer on all the curves. I originally had painted them but it wasn't holding up well on that plastic and easily scratched them during the install. I may have to look at mounting my weatherstripping a bit lower. I really just followed the indent to mount the weatherstripping. I will also look into that Optimum gloss coat looks like $50 but it would be worth it to look glass-like like yours thanks!
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Old 06-10-2016, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperTom
Yep 3m dinoc wrapped them has held to the heat very well using 3m primer on all the curves. I originally had painted them but it wasn't holding up well on that plastic and easily scratched them during the install. I may have to look at mounting my weatherstripping a bit lower. I really just followed the indent to mount the weatherstripping. I will also look into that Optimum gloss coat looks like $50 but it would be worth it to look glass-like like yours thanks!
I bought the optimum gloss coat to put on my wife's new car and the corvette. It has replaced opticoat. The stuff works extremely well and really helps from adding new swirls. I applied after correcting my paint this year and saw it said you can use on plastics and gave it a shot. It was very easy to apply, unlike a few stories I heard with opti-coat.
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Old 06-11-2016, 02:59 PM
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Best looking non-open/close C5 headlight IMHO...
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Old 06-27-2016, 01:23 AM
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The shrouds are seperat and easy to paint
Mine did not come with that weather striping, did you make that yourself?
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Old 06-27-2016, 02:03 AM
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Dang, I have the bi-xenon upgrade for my pop ups by radio flyer.... i love the visiblity, but hate having to adjust them. (seems one slowly droops over time.)
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Old 06-27-2016, 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by derz_vette
Dang, I have the bi-xenon upgrade for my pop ups by radio flyer.... i love the visiblity, but hate having to adjust them. (seems one slowly droops over time.)
Try putting blue loctite on the vertical adjuster screw.

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Mine did not come with that weather striping, did you make that yourself?
All SLC V3 kits should have come with weatherstrip. If you don't have any, let me know and we'll get you some. email: radioflyer97@gmail.com
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Old 06-27-2016, 04:02 PM
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All SLC V3 kits....
I don't see these kits on your website...do you still offer them for sale?
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Old 06-27-2016, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by TheRadioFlyer
Try putting blue loctite on the vertical adjuster screw.



All SLC V3 kits should have come with weatherstrip. If you don't have any, let me know and we'll get you some. email: radioflyer97@gmail.com
Thanks. Email sent
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Old 06-27-2016, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by NemesisC5
I don't see these kits on your website...do you still offer them for sale?
We're dealing with a manufacturing issue with the main lens. We will return the lights to the website once the issue has been solved.
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