Fitting a BMW light to an aftermarket mar

[Snaphappyuk]

Sorry about another bloody fog light thread, but bear with me !

I bought some BMW LED fogs of ebay with the harness and switch, foolishly I hadn't though about how they would fit to bar or bracket that isn't bmw.

The lights don't have a bracket that I can simply bolt through a flat bar or the like, has any body done fitted BMW fogs to non BMW mounts and if so how !

Thanks in advance for your ever helpful comments.

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[craig614]

I take it you're fitting them to a GS?
If you've spent all that cash on the led lights, loom and switch just go the rest of the way and buy the BMW aux light brackets. They're £40odd each and look the part.
PM Sadjim of this site and he'll sort you out I'm sure.

See post 61 of the following thread.....

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=285371&highlight=auxiliary+lights&page=4

 

[Snaphappyuk]

Thanks Craig, I have considered the BMW ones, but £100 for a couple of bite of plastic is a bit steep, plus I'm not sure what else I might like to add in the future, and I have already got a HID ballast that I'd like to fit to a light bar as well. So I really would like a way of making the BMW ones a universal fitment. I might have to resort to bodging something up myself, it wont be pretty !

 

[Snaphappyuk]

Still messing about with this

Any further thoughts on this, I finally plumped for these brackets of fleabay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-R1200...=307436269462540394&pid=100015&prg=1006&rk=2&

But im still looking for a way of attaching the BMW lights, need some kind of U shaped bracket !

I'm beginning to wish I'd just bought the BM brackets !

 

[Fanum]

But im still looking for a way of attaching the BMW lights, need some kind of U shaped bracket !

I'm beginning to wish I'd just bought the BM brackets !

Stick a piccy up of the mounting bits of the BMW lights you have and those of us who don't know what they look like offhand may be able to come up with something

 

[Snaphappyuk]

Good idea Fanum, pictures as you suggest, any ideas greatly appreciated, my metal fabrication skills are non existent !

Thanks

 

[Fanum]

All you need then is a flat plate of 2mm steel or 3 mm aluminium (ish) and the same width (roughly) as the plastic flanges sticking up (go bigger rather than smaller)

Drill three holes in it then whack it in a vice and bend it twice at 90 degrees so it looks roughly like this:
(quick and dirty sketch but you get the idea)

Round off the edges with a file so there's nothing sharp and if it's not stainless steel, use an etching primer (halfords) and then a black satin spray (halfords) to finish it off.

Use stainless M6 bolts, nylocks and a washer, job done

 

[Pablo1]

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Why dont you get together with this bloke, Im sure you could help each other out.
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3132640#post3132640