well i went to seperate the lenses of the autopal came of easy  only to find out the chrome inside of them is not that great ,  might be chinese chrome by the look of them..  the hella chrome was pretty good and way better than the new autopal chrome by a mile ..  so i took both lenses of the auto pal ones and sikaflexed the hella ones on there they pretty much fit with a little tweaking of the edges ..
i use them till i can find a genuine hella unit .... but going of the lenses by themselves the autopal are 10mm shorter in width 30mm ..hella ones are 40mm width and line up perfect with the blinker lens
 
getting pretty anal about things on the capri dont know if its a good thing or bad , the more anal i get about the little things the more cash i have to fork out ... 

in rod we trust
getting pretty anal about things on the capri dont know if its a good thing or bad , the more anal i get about the little things the more cash i have to fork out ... 

You better believe it! It can be both an all consuming passion and a fickle mistress. :(((((

 
 
getting pretty anal about things on the capri dont know if its a good thing or bad , the more anal i get about the little things the more cash i have to fork out ... 


Its whatever floats your boat, and i like an original looking car but i also like making small performance mods and the capri responds so well to this. So whenever i make some mod i am careful to save the original parts.
A new set of hella h4 were among the first mods i did back in 1976. A big improvement then but nowadays its considered pretty ordinary. The optional driving lights also improve the situation but only marginaly. Anyway, good enough to keep you out of trouble.

I forgot to mention, lights are only as good as the power supply and in the case of the capri a direct live feed and relays are essential for bright lights and if you want to avoid overheating the original wiring and switches.
 

Mod what you can while your the owner driver. It's not about anyone else until you sell it. My Perana will get power steering. Not original but very driveable and if I sell it someone can return it to stock if they need too. Are the new ones you bought the autopal ones the same as your one you first posted. Or is it possible you ordered the wrong ones. And as for the chromeing you can get better globes nowadays so it might not matter so much.

yep there the ones for capri,
 
they are the autopal  its just the width was 10mm shorter than the hella lenses  ...when i put the light shroud cover etc with the chrome beazel it sort of looked short was almost sitting inside the bezel at the side edges ...the hella ones stick out of the bezel at the side and sit nice
im also going to do the live feed with the relay on them as well , just in case i do a bit of night driving
around here you dont want to do too much night driving too many crooks about and you have to carry shotgun just in case ...
 
they followed my mate in his gt xw ..he was alone coming back from car show night one ..he called cops on em .. called a few of us as well met up then we followed them  made sure they knew we were folloing them confronted them  ..they took off like a rocket

"too many crooks about and you have to carry shotgun just in case ..."
 
gee that sounds not good. I hope things improve for you.

yeah its a ****ty suburb and surrounding areas
 
does anybody know where to buy new blinker lenses ???

eBay Germany or uk

There are a couple of people in Aus making repro lenses, but they have some of the symbols/numbers blanked out for copyright reasons. Apart from that, they're quite good.