Yellow tint bumper lights

[Guest]

Hi all,

I have painted the inside of the front side/driving lamps (located next to each indicator unit) with a yellow tint for touring in Europe. Unfortunately water gets in (in spite of solicon sealant) and the paint clouds over.

I notice that the Porsche parts catalogue (available from your nearest porsche dealer on CDROM!) lists a "yellow" version of the lamp (pn:944 631 409 00).

Does anyone know if this unit actually has yellow tinted glass - or is the bulb painted yellow??

Yellow is a colour less prone to dazzle and the human eye can discern it better in poor weather - in case you were wondering why I prefer it to clear lenses!!

Cheers
Mark

 

[PaulHere]

Time to dig out the Porsche PET disc!

I'll try to get round to finding out for you - unless someone else beats me to it!

 

[924nutter]

The vehicle lighting regulations say that a dipped or dim-dipped headlight shall be capable of emitting a white light, and further along it refers to lamps or any combination thereof shall emit light of a uniform colour, which as you have to have a white dip means that strictly speaking as the main-beam be will also be white from the retractable headlight, the auxilliary main beam lams also have to emit a white light.
No I am not a policeman.
As an aside, one of my pet hates is people who drive around with fog lights on all the time, little realising that we drivers of lower set sports cars get dazzled more than other road users. Oh, and have you noticed all the new fangled blue led lights appearing. They are illegal too, becasue the regs also state that no light shall be fitted that immitates an emergency vehicles beacon, and if a blue led doesn't come close it's a fine(fine get it?) point of law that Iwouldn't to argue.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I agree with your take on people who drive around with foglights.. but the auxiliary lights in the 924s bumber are not fogs - at least not on my car - they come on with the normal headlights but have much lower wattage bulbs - I guess they are more like sidelights. Speaking as a boring physics person, yellow light is far better in adverse conditions (especially snow) than white. I oft go touring in Europe where this is an issue. I notice in Austria and Switzerland a number of touring cars equipped with yellow lenses - presumably for that reason Porsche have them in their catalogue for the EU market.

The PET catalogue (or equivalent) I have from my Porsche dealer seems to give the same part number for just the glass lens as it does for the entire lamp unit - which is either an error or a way to make more money. I'm amazed that after 1000s of miles of high speed touring my front auxilliary bumper lamps are intact and unbroken (TOUCH WOOD)!!

Cheers
Mark

 

[924nutter]

I relaise that the bumper lamps are extra main beams with the built in side lamps. I am just saying that if people get nicked for eating an apple(by the way did you read about the sting that the Sun carried out on the same police force, offering free apples, and getting many police drivers accepting the gratuity then driving off) then you run the risk of a fine by having dissimilar coloured lamps. Surely the pet offers (offered) the yellow conversion for those of us who wished to comply with the regulations that were current in France when the 924 was a current model. As I understand it the French have now relaxed the yellow lamp rule.