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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #15 on: 13 March 2017, 16:38:52 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 13 March 2017, 15:43:31
Quote from: STEMO on 13 March 2017, 15:39:54
Fight!
Clearly applies to both left and right hand drive cars...


The adjusting lever doesn't turn a RWD lamp into a LHD or vice versa; it just dips a large proportion of the light out of the sightline of oncoming traffic. Guess who has been belting along French country roads in the dark, wondering just why the lights are suddenly so crap, for the last week? 8)


The differences will be in both the reflector and lens, although I expect they will be subtle.


Personally, I would have to be desperate to butcher a new lamp just for a better lens, when 10minutes work makes a massive improvement to even the worst one.
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #16 on: 13 March 2017, 18:24:46 »
So we are saying I can't just buy n fit these?
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #17 on: 13 March 2017, 18:52:24 »
Quote from: Webby the Bear on 13 March 2017, 18:24:46
So we are saying I can't just buy n fit these?


Of course you can.
They'll look bright and shiny, and will work as well as new ones.
But they'll be LHD new ones, so might not be what you want.
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #18 on: 13 March 2017, 19:09:51 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 13 March 2017, 15:36:50
Quote from: RumpelStiltSkin on 13 March 2017, 13:15:56
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 13 March 2017, 13:08:33
They're adjustable for other traffic...
Cant speak for Depo or other pattern, but genuine are **NOT** adjustable between LHD and RHD, and an incorrect one should fail an MOT.

Really cant see pattern being any different, hence the LHD warning.
Pesh... Page 121 of the owners manual  ::)
Nope, that's 'dangle berries'.

What the lever does is convert from sided to a neutral setting with no side kick-up. The Neutral setting should fail a UK MOT on beam pattern.

That's why they do LHD and RHD headlights - if they could get away with it otherwise, they would ;)
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #19 on: 13 March 2017, 19:36:50 »
Strategetically place some black tape over the lens...seen loads like that...be ok.....honest. :)
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #20 on: 13 March 2017, 19:39:01 »
Working in a garage probably helps  ::)
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #21 on: 13 March 2017, 19:44:47 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 13 March 2017, 19:39:01
Working in a garage probably helps  ::)
Esp if your mate is the tester. ;D
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #22 on: 13 March 2017, 19:47:31 »
Quote from: STEMO on 13 March 2017, 19:44:47
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 13 March 2017, 19:39:01
Working in a garage probably helps  ::)
Esp if you is the tester. ;D
Now I didn't say that....
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #23 on: 13 March 2017, 19:51:59 »
So this is getting confusing.

Is it cos the kick patter will be the opposite side that it should be?
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #24 on: 13 March 2017, 19:54:36 »
Quote from: Webby the Bear on 13 March 2017, 19:51:59
So this is getting confusing.

Is it cos the kick patter will be the opposite side that it should be?
Yup.  The "abroad" setting on the lever just masks out the kick via a shutter in the unit.
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #25 on: 13 March 2017, 19:55:22 »
Fundamentally yes... lights dip away from the steering wheel side, ie into the nearside kerb :y

No reason why new lenses from those brand new, shiny lhd lamps cannot be fitted to your units though... still works out a quarter the price of GM ones ;)
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #26 on: 13 March 2017, 19:55:56 »
Quote from: RumpelStiltSkin on 13 March 2017, 19:54:36
Quote from: Webby the Bear on 13 March 2017, 19:51:59
So this is getting confusing.

Is it cos the kick patter will be the opposite side that it should be?
Yup.  The "abroad" setting on the lever just masks out the kick via a shutter in the unit.

Got ya  :y

Ok, so anywhere that does English ones  ;D
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #27 on: 13 March 2017, 19:56:41 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 13 March 2017, 19:55:22
Fundamentally yes... lights dip away from the steering wheel side, ie into the nearside kerb :y

No reason why new lenses from those brand new, shiny lhd lamps cannot be fitted to your units though... still works out a quarter the price of GM ones ;)

This would involve the oven, right?
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #28 on: 13 March 2017, 19:56:53 »
Whats wrong with yours?
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Re: Facelift mig headlamps
« Reply #29 on: 13 March 2017, 19:57:24 »
And a CD would be halogen, not HID.
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