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"They look smart!"
"They look smart!"
We have never been enthused by the bog standard IVA compliant lights that come with the Zero. I mean filament lamps in 2023!
We didn't buy the standard lights, and after some (well a lot) of deliberation by Kathryn (she is in charge of aesthetics) a set of hamburgers (with dynamic indicators!) were purchased.
Hamburgers I hear you say in a questioning tone? Yes, LED hamburgers!
We got ours from here: https://www.bowerspartsonline.co.uk/ They are local to us and Matt basically has a trade account with them cos he's always sticking LEDs on his Land Rover... Something about them making it go faster... or was it something about them stopping it breaking down... Who knows?!
Using this handy guide from the internet (Westfield World) on how to position your lights for a successful IVA outcome. We set about drilling some new holes in the tub (and some holes in the wheel arches) to accept the new rear lights and their 3D printed mounts
The 3D printed bits Matt laboured over (here) have turned out to be a bit faffy. They look fine, but mean you need to get a spanner between the fuel tank and the tub, which means any future changes once the boot is carpeted might be a bit tricky. We hope to never find out!
Instead of stealing the design, you might want to use it as inspiration and come up with something even better than the perfect (ROFL) design Matt did.
After spending a while making sure it's all neat, we are pretty happy with how the lights have turned out.
We had to take an educted guess at the height from the ground for the lights. The rear end should be sitting somewhere in the region of 120mm between the ground and the chassis rail (not the lowered floor). Should be close enough, nothing's so close to the wire a 10mm difference will cause us to fail IVA and they aren't far off the GBS mounting holes anyway- so fingers crossed we're alright!
EDIT - the car is now on the ground and the lights are well above the min height required.
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