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    (NA) What Brand TSIs Are These?

    They are not Zest. I have a pair. Made of solid fibreglass according to my body guy, very heavy. Flipped through the JDM Roadster magazines I have, no luck. Though I don't have them all...

    Anybody know?


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    They're just the cheapies you used to be able to buy from Brainstorm Products (BSP). The made them with both circular lamps and triangular:

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    Fitment is way better than Zest, calling them cheapies is a bit unfair.

    Fitment is almost as good as OEM.

    Haven't found any Brainstorm ones with circular indicators, and the triangular ones I did find are not at all structured and made the same.

    These are SOLID, and heavy, and no way they'd melt, other then the lens. Will post pictures later when at a PC of the other sides so you can see what I mean.

    From my preliminary quick search on my phone, I do not believe they are Brainstorm.

    Do you have any pictures of circular BSP TSIs?

    If they are indeed "cheapies" and people have them laying around, I will gladly pay money for them to have as spares. Just send me a PM!

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    I had a pair of those back in the day. The lens was circular but clear/yellowed. Felt like they were made from Bondo or something, too heavy to be even solid fiberglass. They were definitely USDM, but they came on a car I bought and can't say exactly where from. I lost them during a move, probably with the Aerodramatics door handles I'm also missing

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    These are indeed the "cheepies" as Hammerhead said I also believe...have had them with the round cutouts as well...and well...they are cheap lol...basically feels like a huge brick...

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    If they are the Heavyweight ones then they are the home brew version someone was making many moons ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackberriesand View Post
    Fitment is way better than Zest, calling them cheapies is a bit unfair.

    Fitment is almost as good as OEM.

    Haven't found any Brainstorm ones with circular indicators, and the triangular ones I did find are not at all structured and made the same.

    These are SOLID, and heavy, and no way they'd melt, other then the lens. Will post pictures later when at a PC of the other sides so you can see what I mean.

    From my preliminary quick search on my phone, I do not believe they are Brainstorm.

    Do you have any pictures of circular BSP TSIs?

    If they are indeed "cheapies" and people have them laying around, I will gladly pay money for them to have as spares. Just send me a PM!
    Cheapies, meaning not the 'unicorn' TSIs offered by some of the Japanese vendors. 'Cheapies' also meaning they were much less expensive.

    If not BSP, then it was Moss and a couple of other US vendors that offered them. I still have the ones I posted in the pic.

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