This seems like a good idea that was always on my Mirage wish-list that I will never get to...
Installing a rear dome light
This seems like a good idea that was always on my Mirage wish-list that I will never get to...
Installing a rear dome light
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View my fuel log 2015 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 52.2 mpg (US) ... 22.2 km/L ... 4.5 L/100 km ... 62.6 mpg (Imp)
Basic (01-18-2022)
Interesting it would be illegal to have any light on as you drive as long as it was an factory light. Are "parking lights" the same as "side marker lights" because at that point it is just different verbiage for the same thing. It would seem to only make things safer.
My buddy bought a brand new 2003 Z06. It ran the turn signal bulb I think for the DRL. I am sure due to the pop up headlight system. This is obviously 50 state legal.
Mitsu offers at least one kind of DRL kit, It is LED. They may have more offerings.
Oh! And welcome to the forum Little Magician! Which part of the state are you from?
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View my fuel log 2020 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 42.4 mpg (US) ... 18.0 km/L ... 5.5 L/100 km ... 51.0 mpg (Imp)
But one would think the aftermarket would make them? Strength issue? Liability concern? seizing to the studs? - I would think not*♂️
Quality stainless studs would be the way to go. Stainless is more difficult to machine though. Machine work is expensive. I don't know if stainless lugnuts are cold-headed commonly. But at the size of lug nuts, I have my doubts cold-heading stainless nuts is done. At least not frequently. And even if, there would be a secondary operation needed to finish the threads. Cold heading is where a big mean hot n stanky machines takes a slug of material (like a rod of stainless steel) and whomps the holy hell out of the blunt end of the rod, so hard, so fast, so hot that momentarily the metal goes almost liquid and takes on the shape what is whomping it. Like ... the exact opposite shape of a bolt's hex head. This is fast, accurate and results in an extremely durable finished shape due to the molecular restructuring and (I guess) annealing of the formed shape. This is how high volume screws/bolts are made these days. Then the rod is cut off, and the unwhomped end (the shank) of the rod is "rolled" at high speed and extreme pressure between two dies that form the threads on that unwhomped end of the rod. This sounds like, and happens faster than you can say, "blam-blam-blam-blam-blam" all day long, every damn day, especially for fasteners for automotive. This is an inexpensive way to form screws/bolts. No secondary really. But a nut, well, you gotta machine finish the thread "up inside." Can't just rollem on.
I will admit, this is not my specialty, maybe there is a snazzy way to cold-head a nut that I'm not familiar with. But generally things like this are the way they are due to costs and profit margin (and it must be this way or out of bidness a company goes). For example, if a set of 20 stainless nuts to produce cost $0.25 total (all 20 nuts), but in order to make decent money a manufacturer has to make 100,000 of them and sell them to the market at $X per set. Another manufacturer is going to come and undercut them in short order to win the bidness. The next 15 manufacturers do the same. Then its a race to the bottom. And the only way to make money is to use the least expensive material and 2 year old Chinese kid slave labor. That's just good bidness (facetious), but that's the way it goes on something like lug nuts.
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View my fuel log 2020 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 42.4 mpg (US) ... 18.0 km/L ... 5.5 L/100 km ... 51.0 mpg (Imp)
The OEMs have used some of the absolute worst lugnuts possible. Those 2-piece lugnuts with the cap pressed on are the absolute worst things ever invented...
At least the Mirage uses 1-piece low quality lugnuts.
I've had these lugnuts on my car for 6 years and they still look like new...
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View my fuel log 2015 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 52.2 mpg (US) ... 22.2 km/L ... 4.5 L/100 km ... 62.6 mpg (Imp)
inuvik (02-11-2022)