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From: burden@gndzro.DEC
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: re: tire inflation pressure and headlamps
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 08:43:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 08:43:15 1986
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Tire pressure:  As long as you don't exceed the max pressure on the side of the
tire you won't do any harm.
 
Headlights:  I had a similar problem with a pair of Marchals I had on my '78
Rabbit diesel.  Whenever there was heavy fog or rain the inside of the lenses
would fog up.  One side would be worse than the other for some reason.  I
forget which side it was, but I figured it had something to do with being
closer or further away from the engine.  I used to remove the bulbs first and
hope they would dry out, but that didn't work too well.  I usually ended up
removing the entire unit and draining them like you're doing.  I finally ended
up drilling a small hole in the base of the reflector.   My reason for doing it
was because of the pool of water that would gather at the base of the unit.  I
was concerned that it would rust through.  It did help the condensation a bit
though.  I've had a set of Cibies on my Rabbit GTI for 3 years and have not had
any problems with them fogging up.  Of course, this might be attributed to the
fact that I'm using 90/100 bulbs...:-)
 
 
 
Dave Burden					/-> dec-gndzro!burden
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