To make a short story long, ...

In '86 I bought my quattro, asked my Father to carry a pair of UR quattro lights back from Germany, impossible to find now, ... didn't want them to get cracked so, ...

I bought several thicknesses of static-cling vinyl (clear), cut to size, and stuck them on my headlamps. Figured that since the whole front cover was a bra, these I called Pasties. Anyway, a nice piece of clear static-cling vinyl worked especially well because when I wanted the pure optic clarity of an un-covered lense (fast driving at night) I could pull the covers off and run without.

They endured many miles, many excursions over 125mph, at least 10,000miles at that speed, worked great.

Now (20+ years later) some of the Beverly Hills type of car catalog sell a stick-on version, should've patented it I guess. The short version is that these things work to deflect and disperse the shock of smaller rocks that might otherwise pit or crack your lense, worth the money. Unfortunately the self-stick kind that they sell is a one-application version so you can't remove them for proper light output, but still better than a rock (especially in the winter around here).

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- Jeff