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Omega Help Area => Omega Electrical and Audio Help => Topic started by: Rioja2.5V6 on 10 April 2016, 10:13:33
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My 2001 2.5CDX has a pair of Xenon Headlights. The nearside one has become yellow & have decided needs replacing as the offside looks new ( bought the car 2 years ago). I have found a replacement unit from e-bay advertised as Xenon but looks like I will have to remove the bulb holder on the old unit & fit it to the new one. Have I bought some trouble here ? Comments please.
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Probably easier to polish the lens on your old one.
But its easy enough to swap all bits over. Bulb holder, ballast etc all are simply screwed in, servo is a twist lock, large cable from ballast to bulb is twist lock.
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The old one is not responding to polish any more! Looks like the previous owner ( one only since new before me) had scraped the nearside & had some sort of repair done to the bumper - the plastic on the light seems to have been over sprayed possibly. Thanks for the advice on the replacement - will let you know how we get one next weekend.
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The old one is not responding to polish any more! Looks like the previous owner ( one only since new before me) had scraped the nearside & had some sort of repair done to the bumper - the plastic on the light seems to have been over sprayed possibly. Thanks for the advice on the replacement - will let you know how we get one next weekend.
You'll have no trouble - once the unit is on you bench so you can look around it, it'll all be obvious :y
The biggest issue is the internal adjusters, which are delicate as they go brittle with age. I think Xenon ones are better due to less heat generated, but still break. Replacing adjusters is easy enough, but quite daunting the first time.
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Eventually got round to changing the headlight unit. However, dipped beam looks like it is too low & shining to the left. The unit is a Taiwan copy so cannot see any internal adjuster as in the original Hella.
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Eventually got round to changing the headlight unit. However, dipped beam looks like it is too low & shining to the left. The unit is a Taiwan copy so cannot see any internal adjuster as in the original Hella.
It might be inside the xenon side... had a similar issue with a set of Depo ones ;)
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It is a Depo unit so I will have to have a closer look as you suggest.