tuban
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Hi, I'm in discussion with my spouse - I've fitted new driving lights and I thought I had good taste but this has been challenged and I need some other opinions. Check out the pic where I fitted some ebay 4" driving lights. Only $100 and 2hrs to fit and no drilling of bodywork. If the next owner has poor taste he can refit the original lamps. 
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Yeah Id prefer the std ones
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Why? Why? Why? Sorry, I agree with your missus - the body work was never designed for round lamps......if you want round lamps buy another car!!! Have some respect for the car's original design aesthetics! :-)
What was wrong with the originals??
Cheers, M
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Theres a help section here for a reason,
Im sure if you asked a general opinion here before you bought the lights and proceeded to fit them that every answer would have been to keep the stock driving lamps.
I vote for the stock ones too
And while you’re at it find yourself a late model front lip makes the car heaps more better
cheers
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Ah, public opinion - it can be cruel.
I have been looking at options for more light for the type of driving i do.
Its not easy to fit a round light in an odd shaped hole, rectangle really doesn't look right, round may work but i think these ones look too small. Go big!
I thought about big spot lights there, but being so low its a position only really suited to fog or driving lights. ( funny thing that)
So, sorry, its a no from me, you will not be progressing to round 2 of "make your 2 hella sick, hold the rice"
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I was thinking of ricing up my roof with these  But then i realised i had a targa.
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I have seriously been considering the massive four big hella set up like the rally celicas used...
Looks for pic....
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Dudman asked me to post this for him 
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Dudeman, i think its just doable, if you decked out your entire front bar with head lights like the SILYCA
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Damm, if I like em I guess I do have bad taste:-( The originals that came with the car were one yellow and one clear which looked crap and also had a very feeble output. Even these new small ones give a better result. Thanks for the feedback guys:-) Now for the roof lights and LED strips under the doors.
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Coming in late, but ALWAYS happy to offer an opinion . . .
Sorry mate, your missus is right ( repeat after me - "Yes, dear" ) Seriously, the unique design of the SW is such that, with one exception, the only possible way of fitting extra lights is to go for the factory original fogs. The exception? How about some clever person gutting the shell, and installing high output LED's instead?
Forgive me, there is another alternative. As displayed above, the full "monte" (pun intended) rally style light pod bar. It's my own personal opinion, but that look is enough to put a horn on a monastic jellyfish.
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Damm, if I like em I guess I do have bad taste:-( The originals that came with the car were one yellow and one clear which looked crap and also had a very feeble output.
If you like them, that is all that matters. It's your car at the end of the day. As for the lights, is your car a Japanese import? It is possible to remove the yellow reflector inside to make them both the same. Very easy to do. That being said, doubt would help output - but I have always found the factory MR2 headlight/high-beam combo to be more then adequate.
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IMHO, the stock ones look better because they fit the shape of the front bar - round ones don't, but anyway I consider my stock driving lights are for looks only.
Early model SW20's had sealed beam headlamps that deteriorate with time and any car now with these still fitted will have very inferior lights compared to fitting a high quality modern semi-sealed lens/reflector assembly combined with the latest halogen globes such as Phillips X-treme vision. This will also give the modern sharp cutoff with the beam rising to the left on low beam.
I did this conversion and on high beam the main headlamps are now so bright they make my stock AUS del driving lights redundant anyway
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