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MG TD TF 1500 - Rear Indicator lamps for TD

Could anyone advise the best place for fitting rear indicator/turn lamps on a TD?
J T Smith

Hard to define 'best place', but here's what I did recently http://www.ttalk.info/led_high_mounts.htm
Bud Krueger

Bud,

Thank you very much for that - I can see the added safety of the high level light. My immediate problem is for the turn indicators wired separately to my real tail lights - I have the amber lights but since restoring the rear trim of the car to the correct shape there is not an obvious place to mount them. I may try under the bumper/fender but that will have the visibility problem you mentioned.
J T Smith

Here's the approach that I used before the LED bars showed up http://www.ttalk.info/Tech/HighMountLights.html I'm sure that amber lenses are available.
Bud Krueger

JT,
Check "Odd-Lots" ...I found a set of magnetic lights that look like Buds up there for my dolly @ $12.00 a few years ago! Came with bunch of wire also...yo can "split" the signal wire with "Lucas Bullet connectors" from Tripple C.
Of course ...I found all this "after" I did mine a different way!
Cheers,
David 55 TF1500 #7427
David Sheward

It is possible to buy TD front sidelights with orange lens. I simply fitted a pair to the petrol tank dummy side panels (without drilling extra holes). I also used a pair at the front, fitted onto small plates coming up and then bent back from the bumper securing bolts.
Roger Wilson

Roger,
I see "orange" ones on ebay all the time. I am sure I have seen some inexpensive "re-pros" with orange out there somewhere as well! (Maybe "Tripple C" website?)
Are you running Fog or driving lamps? I wired mine to be able to use these as front turn signals (or as fog & driving lamps). At night the little lamps are fine...but in the daytime I got tired of "near misses" because they are hard to see. I have NOT had this problem with a blinking 7" Amber Lucas on the front of the car!
Cheers,
David 55 TF1500 #7427
David Sheward

David,
My car does have extra spotlamps at the front, but they are too close together and the wrong colour (not orange) to be used as indicators. The car does not have high intensity fog lamps at the rear. I know what you mean about my orange lamps being slightly small, and not so noticeable during the day, but no-one has hit me yet. I find that people over here give our cars extra room, but if anyone does hit me I may have to rethink my strategy.
Regards,
Roger.
PS, The front spot lamps are not even wired to a switch, as the dynamo does not produce sufficient amps. The headlamps are 60 or 65 watt each, so I don't really need extra lamps, but I think the spotlamps make the front of the car look better. I would like to fit an alternator, but I don't know how to drive the mechanical rev counter.
Roger Wilson

Up here they tailgate me even more in the TD. Don't know if they are trying to catch up and see it better, or if they don't care and just are trying to get me to go faster.... It's my number one complaint and the closer they get the slower I go.....
gordon lawson - TD 27667

Roger thanks for the Idea of fitting to the fuel tank. have you seen the converion units for the original front side lights that give an orange bulb for indicators and white for side lights??

http://www.s-v-c.co.uk/

Tim
J T Smith

This thread was discussed between 28/04/2006 and 17/05/2006

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