Bob Denman
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If I had a Blue F3...
If these were more bloodshot; they'd almost look like mine! :roflblack:
If these were more bloodshot; they'd almost look like mine! :roflblack:
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Make No Mistake About It
- Thread starter Cruzr Joe
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Maybe this is more of a 'hot Australia' worry than for you people who ryde in countries that rarely get warmer than blood, but I really wouldn't feel comfortable with ANYTHING like those 'eye covers' stuck over the clear polycarbonate outer lens 'glass' of a Spyder headlight!! I'd seriously be concerned about the poly 'glass' melting.... :shocked:
Why so? Well, I know for a fact (from first hand experience) that the clear poly 'glass' WILL start to melt in the spots where focussed light passes thru them if you run your lights for long enough on a hot day, and that's with nothing at all on them to increase the likelihood of 'hot spots' occurring!! So no matter how little the amount of extra heat those covers will create/collect (& I'm pretty sure it WILL be causing some extra heat to be generated/trapped!) it will very likely be pushing the limits that the poly can handle without beginning to melt!! So I can only see it as a significant risk - fit those 'eyes' & then run your lights for long enough on a warmish day; run them at all on a hot enough day with those eyes on them; or run them for long enough with those eyes on while you are travelling slow enough that very little cooling airflow is passing over the front of your Soyder, and the clear poly 'glass' will very likely start to melt!! And I think that since you chose to fit those eyes, BRP will probably consider said melting a personal problem rather than a warrantable event, unlike the warranty replacement they provided for my Spyder headlights that didn't have 'eyes' stuck on the outer 'glass'!!
I don't know if you'll need to enlarge the pic to see it clearly or not, but if you look at the left arc of the projector 'globe', you should fairly readily be able to see the distorted section of clear poly - that large coin sized spot was from just a couple of hours running on high beam on a hot day while travelling at no more'n about 30 mph.... over the next couple of weeks, every time I ran the lights during the day (we had a hot month!) that 'melted spot' grew bigger & eventually began to bubble thru from the inside onto the outside of the poly, altho it never quite broke thru (at least not before BRP had replaced both headlights for me!!) BRP were pretty quick to come to the party once they became aware of the issue, and I must admit that this all started happening on one of the hottest days we've experienced recently in Aust, which was probably the wrong day to spend ryding very slowly for a couple of hours with the lights on hi-beam, but it was last years Toy Run & I didn't want to disappoint the kids!! :sour:
So you should be able to see why I for one certainly won't be sticking ANYTHING over the poly 'glass' on the headlights of my Spyder - I KNOW that the poly 'glass' doesn't take all that much more heat to start it melting!!
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Why so? Well, I know for a fact (from first hand experience) that the clear poly 'glass' WILL start to melt in the spots where focussed light passes thru them if you run your lights for long enough on a hot day, and that's with nothing at all on them to increase the likelihood of 'hot spots' occurring!! So no matter how little the amount of extra heat those covers will create/collect (& I'm pretty sure it WILL be causing some extra heat to be generated/trapped!) it will very likely be pushing the limits that the poly can handle without beginning to melt!! So I can only see it as a significant risk - fit those 'eyes' & then run your lights for long enough on a warmish day; run them at all on a hot enough day with those eyes on them; or run them for long enough with those eyes on while you are travelling slow enough that very little cooling airflow is passing over the front of your Soyder, and the clear poly 'glass' will very likely start to melt!! And I think that since you chose to fit those eyes, BRP will probably consider said melting a personal problem rather than a warrantable event, unlike the warranty replacement they provided for my Spyder headlights that didn't have 'eyes' stuck on the outer 'glass'!!
I don't know if you'll need to enlarge the pic to see it clearly or not, but if you look at the left arc of the projector 'globe', you should fairly readily be able to see the distorted section of clear poly - that large coin sized spot was from just a couple of hours running on high beam on a hot day while travelling at no more'n about 30 mph.... over the next couple of weeks, every time I ran the lights during the day (we had a hot month!) that 'melted spot' grew bigger & eventually began to bubble thru from the inside onto the outside of the poly, altho it never quite broke thru (at least not before BRP had replaced both headlights for me!!) BRP were pretty quick to come to the party once they became aware of the issue, and I must admit that this all started happening on one of the hottest days we've experienced recently in Aust, which was probably the wrong day to spend ryding very slowly for a couple of hours with the lights on hi-beam, but it was last years Toy Run & I didn't want to disappoint the kids!! :sour:
So you should be able to see why I for one certainly won't be sticking ANYTHING over the poly 'glass' on the headlights of my Spyder - I KNOW that the poly 'glass' doesn't take all that much more heat to start it melting!!
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Bob Denman
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Question: Would an LED headlight bulb burn cooler? :dontknow:
Cruzr Joe
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Will you please post a pic with the lights on? So I can live on vicariously through you? Please?
~Sandee~
With the lights on ............. all you see is the headlights.
Cruzr Joe
