Are my headlights fitted wrong?????

[supadik]

Ey up lads (and lasses???????) I have yet another question re. my Chim. I know the car has had a stuff at the front end at some point of it's life and who ever did the repair has made a pretty sh*te job of it. The bonnet aint quite the right shape and one of the wing edges is slight wrong. Those things don't bother me as I'm a painter/panel beater by trade and also have a lot of experience in fibreglass fabrication. The problem I have tho' is the bloody head lights as mine look crap they just do seem to be fitted in right.

I've include pics of them and would be grateful if anyone could tell me what's wrong.

Rich

Edited by supadik on Thursday 2nd October 14:20

[That Daddy]

Try http://photobucket.com/

[supadik]

Thanks i was doing that as you replied lol

[tvrbob]

They look like sealed beam units. The glass appears to be attached to the reflector. The original equipment had separate parts so that the glass could sit further forward and tilted upward to meet the outer cowling

[HRG]

Looks like a candidate for Lupo lights...

[bam50]

Rich, either the headlight covers have been sanded back way tooooo much, or the headlight glasses haven't been fitted in correctly. I'd say the later. You'll probably need to remove the covers and maybe even the glasses as well to examine how/where the headlight glasses are fixed to the fibreglass headlight apertures. Assuming it's been repaired correctly there should be a visible ridge where the glass sits, along with a rubber strip, oh and lots of sealant/sikaflex. Be careful taking the covers off, as well as a couple of wing nut screw fixings they may also be fixed at the top with some sealant/sikaflex. HTH

ETA. Just had another look at your pics and it looks like there might be some evidence of the ridge just in front of the headlight glasses.

Edited by bam50 on Thursday 2nd October 14:38

[That Daddy]

tvrbob said:

They look like sealed beam units. The glass appears to be attached to the reflector. The original equipment had separate parts so that the glass could sit further forward and tilted upward to meet the outer cowling

they are not standard anyways.

[bam50]

tvrbob said:

... The original equipment had separate parts so that the glass could sit further forward and tilted upward to meet the outer cowling

As tvrbob said.

The reflectors are fixed to the fibreglass via 3 adjustable screws and the glasses are attached to the fibreglass via sikaflex/sealant and a rubber . No not that sort . So if yours are a single unit they are the wrong ones.

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Edited by bam50 on Thursday 2nd October 15:34

[supadik]

Cheers everyone, it does look like the, not so well, trained apes that repaired the car have either stuck the lenses straight onto the reflectors or just bunged some H4 sealed beam jobs in!!!!!

Either way i'm guna convert to Lupo headlamps cos they look coooooooooooooooool When I do the conversion I'll take plenty of pics of the work and post them on here for others that might want to do the conversion.

Once again cheer everybody

Rich