Indicators & Repeaters; What colour?

[Fat Albert]

At the risk of ramming a stick firmly into a Hornet's Nest....

What is De-Rigeur for 944 Indicators and Repeaters at the moment?

I have a Red Turbo with the original Orange ones but have seen clear Indicators and smoked repeaters on eBay

Do I stick with how it looked when it came out of teh factory, or do I 'improve' it's looks?

I suppose if you start on the road to modification, you end up on a slippery slope...Wing Mirrors next....[&:]

 

[pauljmcnulty]

A dilemma I have at the moment!

IMO smoked is always as wrong as a fake Touring Car wing on a Clio 1.2. [:'(]

I really like the splash of colour on an otherwise pretty monochrome car that you get from the lights. As I discussed at length with Richard Marsden on Sunday morning, getting his ideas as he makes the clear lenses. We came to a sort of agreement that the amber side lenses look right, with the coloured crest centre caps. The big amber lenses on the front look odd as they're above the clear foglamp cluster. So I might change them when he's got a new batch in.

Again, as with coloured wheels, it's a very subjective thing and very dependant on the car colour.

 

[Pastry]

id guess aesthetically youre gonna get a variety of responses, i like my original orange ones, but i say do what you want its your car.

as an aside from the aesthetic values, orange bulbs fade over time to white. i had a car fail an MOT for this, easily fixed but annoying.

 

[poprock]

I don't expect anyone else to like them, but I have mine smoked. It works for me because it's a black car and also has the front repeaters and rear clusters smoked and the windows tinted (gradually, from light smoke on the side windows, to medium on the rear quarters and dark on the rear hatch). My car's as black as it can be, inside and out. That's the way I like it!

 

[Fat Albert]

On a Black car it is a no-brainer, smoked works well. On my one I am inclined to keep them orange, I am not a stickler for originality but think they look OK on a Red car.

The whole point of owning a 944 is that it is an '80s car and very much of it's time, so I don't see the point in trying to modernise it too much, but an odd tweak here or there...oh it is a minefield!

I wondered about tinting the windows, but again think that would only look good on a Black or Grey 944. We have it on the 730 for the full Russian Mafia Look, and it looked good on our old Black CRV, but I think it would look wrong on a Red 944, unless anyone can show me one they have done?

 

[DavidL]

Orange for me.

 

[poprock]

I think orange repeaters is the way to go on a red car. Nothing to do with originality, just aesthetics.

 

[appletonn]

I have/had the clear front lenses but orange repeaters on my 944t.

Each to their own I say, just before Scotty jumps in about the merits of originality...[8|][8|][]

 

[Suffolk944]

I went for clear all round but as others have said each to their own and all that. Certainly different colours seem to suit either amber/clear better than others.