City Lights

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Am I the only one who can't read most of the text on those pics?

I can't really either. The pictures pretty much speak for themselves, though.

True. What I might do to make it my own is put Amber lights on it and make them into Turn Flashers...then again...I am still thinking about it.

about how long did this take to do?

I did it. Took about 1.5 hours, minus the time it took to take apart the whole headlight to fix the round lens I popped out on the first headlight. My only advise is when drilling the hole, dont go too fast. Thats how I popped the round lens out.

if i were to get the parts needed to install the lights....what would i ask for? part numbers for the sockets or something??

socket you need is a socket 194. Either go to a GM dealer and ask for a side marker socket for a GM products---1968-93.

http://autolumination.com/connectors.htm also has them, scroll down and you'll see them.

Nice job :) I've always loved city lights. When i get a real body kit one day i want to relocate my turn signal to that circle.

When I bought my car, I wondered what those extra lenses were for. Now I wonder what the point of the city lights might be. Any ideas?

it looks pretty cool. before i found this forum i did kind of the same thing. i bought some blue leds and drilled small holes and installed them and just ran the wires off of my headlights. thinkin about redoin them off the turn signals so that i can have just the blue leds on and the runnin lights instead of the whole headlight. its not as bright with the leds but it still looks pretty cool.

where the heck do i buy those lights?? lol

hhhmmm the socket or the bulb? the socket you can get at a gm dealer or prolly your local auto parts store. same with the bulbs.

wait so its 2 parts? lol i thought it was one piece. lol

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Originally Posted by AveoSSSupercharged

wait so its 2 parts? lol i thought it was one piece. lol

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it would only make sense coonsidering if the light bunt out in whatever car it came from, it would be easier to change the bulb rather than the whole light socket. and in one of the pictures it says "...holder for a "194" bulbout of an 88 celebrity. something... many others could be used. the "194" bulb is the same as in the parking lights in the car already."

yeh its hard to read and understand lol.

Just buy a 194 bulb holder and get a bulb. I put a white LED from superbriteleds in mine.

Yuck.

Another botched install. I popped out the lens like the original poster did. ITS VERY EASY TO DO. Now I have to take apart my once good headlight light, which basicaly means ruining it as Im finding out.

Just take caution if your going to try this !!!!

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Originally Posted by aveoike

I did it. Took about 1.5 hours, minus the time it took to take apart the whole headlight to fix the round lens I popped out on the first headlight. My only advise is when drilling the hole, dont go too fast. Thats how I popped the round lens out.

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Even after I read this. One little slip and pop, out it came.

How did you get your headlight apart? Mine is so gooed together im literally shredding the grey plastic housing trying to separate the dam thing.

put the headlight in the oven at 200 deg. after taking the bulbs and everything else off. put in for like 10 mins and the glue will be soft enough to pull it apart

Omg...are you for real? that wont hurt the plastic or anything?

Thanks for the tip. a little afraid to try it, but does sound like it should work. what have I got to loose. Thanks again, for the suggestion.

Update.. That worked. 200 deg for about 10 minutes and the light was nice and hot.

and lens oozed apart. The sealer is like miracle goo.

I got the small city lite lens back in place... (used a tiny bit of the goo to keep it held in place and its back in like it never fell out).

I got the lens back together and it looks like its going to be ok. aside from the pry marks on the grey plastic, but its not tooo bad. I put it in the oven one more time to get it to all ozze back together.

I finished the hole for the 194 holder. I just have to get the bulbs (which I forgot back at my storage area dang!)

So one light is now modded for city lights woo hoo.

i painted the bezels over a yr ago and i dont any problems with them, only thing u gotta worry about is resealing it up so u dont get condonsestion on the inside of the headlight

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Omg...are you for real? that wont hurt the plastic or anything?

Thanks for the tip. a little afraid to try it, but does sound like it should work. what have I got to loose. Thanks again, for the suggestion.

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i think there is a diy on here or on daewoo tech too..

OMG, I am an Idiot!!!

I just happily got my light lit up, only to find out that I put the cover back on with the ribs horizontal! they go vertical!! fuuuuuuuu ck!!!

No one will really notice I guess, but I'll always know its wrong. Dammit. I knew I shouldnt have just guessed.

And Finally,

Having popped the lens off on my second light, I have a tip I'd like to suggest.

If you dont have a cone bit, and you decide to go with a drill bit be carefull.

I started with a tiny, easy to drill pilot hole. Its the second drill bit. It just pulls right into the plastic instead of drilling it . Which then pops the lens off. I'd use a dremel tool after the pilot hole, or I'd just buy that kone bit as shown in the how-to pics.

I guess its good because I can now mount this lens 90* off , to match the mistake I made on the other side. I like them better with the ribbing vertical, like stock, but I guess having them match looks better than not.

When I popped mine out, I was lucky enough to be able to get it back in place and place some silicone on the edge to keep it there. I thought it would only last a day or 2 but it's been like that for 6 months.

I did a similar thing to mine. I used the middle bulb/socket from the running lights. So, no extra bulb to deal with.

I know this is an old post. But I thought that I would add that what was being done is not a city light. Good attempt at it, but far from it. What those look like are regular parking lights...WAY TO BRIGHT. Plus they are are not supposed to come on with the parking lights on the bumper.

I am trying to find the pics of my Mercedes at night with them on.

This isnt a AVEO but it shows a good PROPER way to add city lights.
http://www.mz3.net/articles/223.html

Oh, so it looks kinda like a dimmed down high beam? Oh wait, I think those have another name. Oh ya, DRL.

drl and city lights are too different things.

and for all of you who push out the amber reflector piece using a drill bit.. i know the size is larger than a typical hose, but for an 1/8 drill bit slide a vacuum hose onto it to be a stopper. if the bit is 4 inches ling and you need to only drill a 1/4 inch deep put a 3 3/4 inches of hose on it to stop the bit from going into the hole. the scale is different going to a bigger hole. but it gives you the idea. this way you dont punch through, and know the lens out.

DRL's are on ALL the time. Plus the tail lights are on with DRL's IIRC. With city lights it is just the small 5W bulbs in the headlights that are on.

The fact is people are calling this "mod" city lights when in fact they are nothing like it. It is just parking lights in the headlight. Nothing special about it. It infact looks really stupid to those how know what REAL city lights look like.

i wish tail lights were on with DRLs. DRLs is the worst thing i think you could put on a car, at night so many people around here drive with only the DRLs on, which means high beam in front, and no taillights
so when they are on the highway, you don't see them on your approach, and then after you pass them you cant see behind you..

And it supposed to be a "safety" feature..

I don't think DRLs are high beam output. Matter of fact, I think the output is less than low beam because of a resistor. On another note, good thing expresso cleared up the misinformation here :roll: All this time I thought those were city lights. how dumb could I have been :shock:

whether the beam is full strength or not, its aimed at my mirrors which is annoying.

and its bright enough those jackasses can see at night?

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whether the beam is full strength or not, its aimed at my mirrors which is annoying.

and its bright enough those jackasses can see at night?

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I am not sure how the do not realize the lights are off because the dash lights aren't on with the DRLs, so they would be ridin blind, anyways, it's good for running from the coppers at night, you can see and they can't see you....I digress

If you have the parking lights clicked on- you can have the dash lights on and be fooled into thinking you have your regular lights on 'till you get to a really dark stretch of road.
At least in this case, your tail lights are on.

I hear ya though...I find them irritating when there shining at me just right.

The only car I had that someone turned into and said they didnt see it, was my old Cavalier with DRL's.

I did the disconnect on this on my aveo and am happy with that. And my "Boonies lights" 8)

The bit that I used, may have pulled passed the rubber tube, it really pulled into the plastic.....I'd stick with a cone bit. I used a dremel on mine and it worked good after the whole lens debacle.

Managed to get my 194 sockets spliced in and my holes drilled and cut for the "Non city lights". Thanks for the tips, I started with a pilot hole then used the cone bit and managed to drill both light housings without any problems. Now I need to wait for my new LED bulbs I bought on ebay.

Finally got my LED bulbs today I managed to get them in without too big a hassle.Note: Do not drop bulbs in your parking lites, hard to remove. I took this at dusk, then had a little fun with photo shop. The car is silver, looks blue in this shot. The pics dont quite do it justice either, the LED "City Lights" are bright white. And the LED 1157's make my parking lights super yellow compared to the amber they used to be. Now I think I eed to get resisters to settle down my hyper turn signals. Has anyone done this? (The resisters that is) http://s11.postimage.org/dnwsrjbq7/LEDs.jpg

You can try what I did check out my cardomain page for the relay info and pic's