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Well I looked at the narva light but I thought it might not fit and it was expensive so I went for the led autolamp 175aw/2
Front indicator/daytime running.
I had to move the mounting plate forward 38 mm.
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You may need to change flasher to suit if you haven't done so already. This way the indicators flash at the right rate.
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One thing I mentioned on the replies that did not come through was that I kept the mounting plate at the same angle of the original and noticed that the light points down, not sure if the old lights did the same.
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LED flasher probably required if you changed the rear indicators to LEDs as well. The ADR for indicator lights is 90 +/-30 flashes per minute (Appendix A section 6.5.9), although 80 seems to be a common rate.
XT front indicator lights have a slightly different bracket. Easy enough to make up a new bracket, probably rusted away anyway in that area:
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The flasher I got did both LED and Standard Globes. I did have to swap two wires around. Works a treat now.
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The other thing is that I got them out of England so not sure if that is why the white wire is negative and the black wire is positive.
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Can't explain black for positive, goes against everything I've learned, but then we had to change from sensible red/black mains wiring to brown/blue to meet European standards.
Best to label them + and - before they reverse those as well. I slip a piece of red or black heat shrink sleeving on any wires where there's any polarity doubt.
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It might be related to the US power cord code. Instead of the familiar red / black or brown / blue for active / neutral respectively, the US uses black for "hot" (active) and white for return (neutral).
I have seen many US power cords wired wrongly into Australian plugs!
Why brown / blue? It was adopted to avoid the potentially lethal red / green (active / earth) confusion with a common form of colour blindness. For many years the Victorian power industry (SECV) required some occupations to pass a red / green colour perception test.
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Interesting if the Europeans try changing traffic lights to brown and blue? Is there a colour blindness requirement in the driving test?
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Ewart I have the same problem with my LED flasher but it was always hard to hear anyway.Ewart and Vivian Halford wrote: there is no 'tick,tick,tick'
Ability to sense delicate indicator 'tick,tick,tick' is an OKA aftermarket special exclusively limited to Cummins 6bt vehicles.
On the dark side, they also get to sense other muted sounds including soothing music!
....Softies!!

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I can't hear my current standard flasher either so I fitted a simple piezo buzzer ( from Jaycar ) to the flasher unit output so it beeps when flashing.
If the buzzer sounds continuously (due to current draw from flasher unit), you might need to connect it to the indicator switch outputs via a couple of cheap diodes, 1N4004 , (so that the buzzer sounds in both directions):
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Spaghetti junction with all the wires and all the colours of the rainbows,
Took awhile to do, I hope not to have any problems.
All LEDs now except for head lights.
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cheers,Joe
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