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> Reproduction Tail light Lenses?
Tobra
post Sep 22 2005, 02:05 PM
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Does anyone make them? Seems like it would not be rocket science or anything. Their are like 5 companies making them for bugs, is that because their are 15 bajillion bugs out there and only a few 914's? They could charge a mint for them, and once you got the molds right, they would cost pennies apiece.
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post Sep 22 2005, 02:10 PM
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There was someone in the vendor's section selling repro lenses, though they weren't exact copies, just close. I think they eventually gave up due to lack of sales.
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post Sep 22 2005, 02:15 PM
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QUOTE (lapuwali @ Sep 22 2005, 04:10 PM)
There was someone in the vendor's section selling repro lenses, though they weren't exact copies, just close. I think they eventually gave up due to lack of sales.

IMO - they had no sales because they weren't close enough...

i think a *quality* repro - one with proper attachment points - would sell well.
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post Sep 22 2005, 02:31 PM
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Yeah, I remember those, they had screws on the outside of the lens holding them to the housing, they sorta looked like crap.
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post Sep 22 2005, 02:41 PM
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I also remember talking to the guy on the phone, although I cannot remember his name. He does other stuff but wasn't happy with the 914 tail lights. He said he was just going to bag it. That was almost a year ago now.

Yep, if someone could R&D them, it would cost some bucks, but I think in the end if the product was as original or better, they would re-coop thier money quickly.
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post Sep 22 2005, 02:41 PM
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Cool repros would be a gas. One of the 914's at the ECC had French taillights and I thought they looked sweet.
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post Sep 22 2005, 02:42 PM
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Making the dies would be pretty costly I think. There are a lot of little details, seems like it would be a lot of work to reproduce accurately. Also, they are not the same on each side, so double the cost.

It would be several tens of thousands of dollars to make dies for the rear lenses. So you'd have to sell a BUNCH of them..

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post Sep 22 2005, 03:07 PM
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It's amazing the cost that companies incur creating things like lenses and weatherstripping. One of my other cars, my Aerocoupe, has a similiar issue, nobody makes the rear seal for the window. With just over 6,200 made in two years, and a loss of cars to accident / rust whatever, each year, the price to produce and recoupe money would prohibit actually making them. The guy who took up a chance and researched it (has his own plant doing weatherstripping) determined that the cost to sale would be well over $1000 (and I want to say close to two from his estiamtes) or so for the limited numbers. <= $500 had more interest, but still, business are generally in it to make money. No everybody needs one, but if the price was right, they'd buy one, just in case. (I've seen windows w/ seals go for 1500 on e-bay sometimes, and others not move at all)

Sure would be nice though. (My lenses are in pretty sad shape)

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post Sep 22 2005, 03:12 PM
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QUOTE (TonyAKAVW @ Sep 22 2005, 04:42 PM)
...It would be several tens of thousands of dollars to make dies for the rear lenses.

*if* you were determined to injection-mold them the way Hella did 30 years ago.

how much to simply CNC carve them from "billet" acrylic?
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post Sep 22 2005, 03:50 PM
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Auto Atlanta is making them now. However, be prepared to pay up the WAZOO for them.

Euro Tail Light (repro) lenses

Gotta love free enterprise.
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post Sep 22 2005, 04:00 PM
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Whoa... $400 a pair? I bought a pair NIB from Pelican for my old 911 and they ran less than half that. Then again, I suppose there were a few more 911's built over the years, so the potential market is bigger.
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post Sep 22 2005, 04:53 PM
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Although not available for about another month, reproduction rear USA lenses for the 914 are $199.50 per set. I'll let you know when they're available.
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post Sep 22 2005, 04:58 PM
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QUOTE (Carlitos Way @ Sep 22 2005, 01:50 PM)
Auto Atlanta is making them now. However, be prepared to pay up the WAZOO for them.

Euro Tail Light (repro) lenses

Gotta love free enterprise.


They're going fast too!!
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post Sep 22 2005, 04:59 PM
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QUOTE (smg914 @ Sep 22 2005, 02:53 PM)
Although not available for about another month, reproduction rear USA lenses for the 914 are $199.50 per set. I'll let you know when they're available.


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post Sep 22 2005, 05:02 PM
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AA and a guy from WA were both selling their pre-production non-tinted tail lenses on eBay many months ago for ~$200 a set. I believe both were sourcing off-shore. Unless these Euro lense are the final AA product, I haven't heard anything since...
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post Sep 22 2005, 05:20 PM
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i need french tails..... someone make them (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)
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post Sep 22 2005, 06:12 PM
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QUOTE (olav @ Sep 22 2005, 03:59 PM)
QUOTE (smg914 @ Sep 22 2005, 02:53 PM)
Although not available for about another month, reproduction rear  USA lenses for the 914 are $199.50 per set. I'll let you know when they're available.


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post Sep 22 2005, 06:39 PM
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QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Sep 22 2005, 03:20 PM)
i need french tails..... someone make them (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)

I tried a few years back in Montreal.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

Nowadays, My Attorney would disembowel me and hang me with my own guts if I tried to make any French tail.

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post Sep 22 2005, 07:17 PM
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QUOTE (smg914 @ Sep 22 2005, 02:53 PM)
Although not available for about another month, reproduction rear USA lenses for the 914 are $199.50 per set. I'll let you know when they're available.

obviously, I also would be interested, depending on quality. The bird has OEM euro tails right now for under $200, why would you buy repros for more?
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post Sep 22 2005, 08:13 PM
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QUOTE (Dave_Darling @ Sep 22 2005, 04:39 PM)
QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Sep 22 2005, 03:20 PM)
i need french tails..... someone make them (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)

I tried a few years back in Montreal.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

Nowadays, My Attorney would disembowel me and hang me with my own guts if I tried to make any French tail.

--DD

would you pass a polygraph or cross examination? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)
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