Broken Cibie Driving light..
Submitted: Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:20
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wombat100
Hi All
Just back from a brief 3-week trip including the
Darling River run,
Border Track & Murray/sunset N/P, Wyperfield N/P, and back
home via the Murray.
Anyhow, during the trip I had to remove one of my Super Oscar lights, as the mounting bracket had developed metal fatigue and was about to snap !!!
I was wondering if I should complain to Cibie.......after all I purchased the lights back in 1976 !!!
It had been fitted to many vehicles continuously all that time- with many '000 km of rallying including the Repco Round Australia in '79, a Australian Safari and a few
Southern Cross rallys. And many more '000 km of 'off the blacktop' outback travelling.
Not quite a grandfathers axe, it has had a couple of new lens/reflectors, about 10 globes, but the original housing that has just failed. It's mate looks OK at this stage.
37 years of faithful service !!!
I'm gonna get the crack welded up and get another 37 years out of it (if I'm around that long).
Cheers
Wombat
Reply By: Member - ACD 1 - Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 at 13:18
Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 at 13:18
I'm with Bruce on this one Wombat.
Absolutely disgusting! Where is the quality in things you buy these days. I too have experienced poor build quality in my Cibie Super Oscars.
When I purchased them, I was told that they were "the duck's nuts" of
driving lights. But all it took was a single wayward stone to render it useless.
You would think that after a few (hundred) months of normal (4wd) use they would hold up.
Bugger Today Tonight - there's enough evidence for a class action.....
I bought
mine in 1984 and all I ever had to do was change the vehicles they were attached to, and also a couple of globes. Unfortunately a new set of HIDs has taken their place. Where is the loyalty.
RIP Cibie Super Oscars
Cheers
Anthony
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