Baa! too much cleaning

[alki]

Hi guys, need some advice
Was out in the sun yesterday cleaning my baby, got round to the lights and one of them fell in to the body!!.....i had a little grope behind the wheel liner and its not the plastic bolts come loose but the whole bracket.
Does anyone know how the brackets r fixed to the body? and is this a clam off job??
Thx for any advice

[fergusd]

They are glued on to the clam.

You can stick them back on with great success - use somthing like plastic metal but make sure the braket is down to the metal before gluing (use an anglegrinder).

No need to remove the clam, simply peel back the wheel arch liner.

Fd

[pley]

"...peel back the wheel arch liner"

and peel your knuckles during the process.

HTH

[alki]

Cheers Fergusd....ive got some araldite at work, will that be ok? and when i stick should i wind in all the nuts and line the light up (so as to get adjustment each way) or will it bottom out on the body and aline its self?

[gregmund]

If the bracket has come away worst case senario is that it has corroded.

This happened to mine & is very common as the originals weren't powder coated apparently. I replaced both headlight units & the brackets together.

If you do need to replace the bracket I got my powdercoated replacements from eliseparts.com complete with the bonding gunk to stick them on.

If it is that let us know & I can post some 'in my expereince' instructions
It took about a day incuding a lot of wating about for 'bonding time'.

Cheers
G

[alunr]

Same thing happened to me a few months ago.

The whole bracket had corroded so needed replacing then you need to use Sikaflex to stick it all back to the body work.

I wussed out and got Simon at Brooke-Kensington to do it for me.

Alun