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Although the chances for a headlight not to work because it's French are reasonably manifold, it's not necessarily so. To absolutely guarantee a headlamp to fail, you need at least some Chinese components.

 

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Because Boxing Day, this necessitated a trip to Hellford's, since no suitable connector could be found in the Junkfundus. A suitable connector was obtained, the Junkhaus partially rewired to enable a soldering iron to warm up in the garden and a second trip to Hailfraud's undertaken because the Junkdungeon yielded no shrink hose whatsoever. Once all this had been tackled, a repair was carried out.

 

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It resulted in this:

 

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That Chinese relay kit is well designed and a worthwhile upgrade, but the quality of the components is quite poor. It installed easily, but one of the relays was DOA (which took a while to diagnose, as it still clicked when powered). I noticed yesterday that the remaining original relay was falling out of its case. 

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Although the chances for a headlight not to work because it's French are reasonably manifold, it's not necessarily so. To absolutely guarantee a headlamp to fail, you need at least some Chinese components.

 

45763481214_cd8a27d683_b.jpg

 

 

Because Boxing Day, this necessitated a trip to Hellford's, since no suitable connector could be found in the Junkfundus. A suitable connector was obtained, the Junkhaus partially rewired to enable a soldering iron to warm up in the garden and a second trip to Hailfraud's undertaken because the Junkdungeon yielded no shrink hose whatsoever. Once all this had been tackled, a repair was carried out.

 

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It resulted in this:

 

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What does it look like with the headlights switched on?

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Anyway, this morning, there was some postman ringage.

He dropped these four parcels.

 

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Now look:

 

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Do you now understand the difference between a car tyre, and newfangled rubbish?

 

 

Incredibly I managed to get them fitted.

 

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You will have to agree that this is a vast improvement. And I can assure you, it not only looks 40 years better, it drives like a proper car now.

Sadly balancing wasn't possible, because those - errrr - modern balancing machines aren't capable of balancing proper car wheels.

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Do you now understand the difference between a car tyre, and newfangled rubbish?

Have done for aeons

 

Also my eyeball verniers say they are phat as phuck 155s? (ETA: of even 165s given the bloody height of the things.)

 

Sadly balancing wasn't possible, because those - errrr - modern balancing machines aren't capable of balancing proper car wheels.

Those modern balancing machines are perfectly capable of balancing stupid French blind centre wheels.

 

It's the skinflint tyre shop owner you should be castigating for not splashing out on the required adapter.

 

Sheesh ;)

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165/70R14 which is RONG, because it's newfanged, thus shit by default.

Weirdly it also had inner tubes.

It's just about technically permissible on a 4.5B rim (or is it a 4.00B that's the narrowest for that size?) It's shit because the beads are awfully pinched together.

 

Sticking inner tubes inside tubeless tyres is a no-no as the insides of a tubeless tyre can chaff the tube. The average tyre monkey would insist on doing that when they see an old B profile tubeless rim just because they don't have the safety humps to stop tyres rolling off the rim.

 

I'd rather go without the sodding tubes which are a ballache in themselves and not worry about the lesser problem of rim roll-off.

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