Day 6: More parts are here
Yesterday all my parts from Toyota arrived including new rubber bushes for mounting the rad assembly, both wing brackets and the wings themselves. Didnt realise how big the boxes would be for the wings, glad I took the bigger car.
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Headlights Arrived
Also the Vland headlights arrived, note they did arrived damaged, but Vlands ebay store were really helpful and quick to rectify the problem with a new set on the way to me. Quality so far looks good and I connected them up to the car last night to ensure the wiring on the car was intact and that the headlights worked.
Vland headlights by
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The test went well with the DRLs and sequential indicators looking spot on. I now need to source some stock headlight bulbs and attach the ballasts as the stock bulbs are missing from the car but I do have two ballasts. I will see if I can steal the bulbs from an old set of Mini xenons I have in the garage. I know some people are cautious about aftermarket headlights, I will be very open and honest with my thoughts on them once installed so people hear first hand what they are like, will probably do a video review of them over on my youtube channel
www.youtube.com/tweedbean
Newly discovered issue
When I returned from Toyota last night I decided to fit the wing brackets to see how straight the structure was in front of the front wheels. Passenger side bolted on no problem, all appears straight. The drivers side, not so easy, the rear two bolts for the wing bracket go in no problem, the front one, shown in the pic below, doesnt line up. This will be correctable via the specialist the car is going to to straighten everything, worst case I can buy that section from Toyota if it doesnt pull straight. I expected there to be more parts like this, so no surprise here.
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