Starplots
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A question to anyone who has changed a Trophy/Luxury headlight - left or right doesn't matter!
I need to change a headlight as I punched a hole in the front of it (headlight meets steel post box, the post box won
)
I sourced an immaculate new right hand headlight from Latvia - the donor car had a left side light & wing meeting with another car! It arrived this morning and really is as advertised, but i noticed that at the inner (pointy) end there is a gap between the front & rear housing that looks wider that it should be,
It's hard to see in the photo's, as it's black against black but you can see the gap ringed in red in the photo's. Circled in yellow is what looks like the clip and slot to hold the 2 parts in place, but it looks like the end of the clip is missing ir intentionally cut off; I looked at photos from ebay and other places and although none of them show this area in detail, it does look to me like that clip is cut off in all of them - I can't see if there's a gap though.
Thee are also 2 screws that hold the 2 parts together either side of the slot, they seem untouched and the sealant looks as if it's OK in the gap but again its hard to tell. So my question is that if you have a headlight to hand, or photo's or just by memory, is this gap 'normal'? My guess is that it could be a manufacturing fudge, that the mouldings don't fit perfectly but the sealant and the screws hold it together in the right place.
I can't get the bumper off on my own and have no help so before I take it to my local crash repairer to change it, I want to be reasonably sure this is OK as I do have time to return it if not.
Many thanks in advance
I need to change a headlight as I punched a hole in the front of it (headlight meets steel post box, the post box won
)I sourced an immaculate new right hand headlight from Latvia - the donor car had a left side light & wing meeting with another car! It arrived this morning and really is as advertised, but i noticed that at the inner (pointy) end there is a gap between the front & rear housing that looks wider that it should be,
It's hard to see in the photo's, as it's black against black but you can see the gap ringed in red in the photo's. Circled in yellow is what looks like the clip and slot to hold the 2 parts in place, but it looks like the end of the clip is missing ir intentionally cut off; I looked at photos from ebay and other places and although none of them show this area in detail, it does look to me like that clip is cut off in all of them - I can't see if there's a gap though.
Thee are also 2 screws that hold the 2 parts together either side of the slot, they seem untouched and the sealant looks as if it's OK in the gap but again its hard to tell. So my question is that if you have a headlight to hand, or photo's or just by memory, is this gap 'normal'? My guess is that it could be a manufacturing fudge, that the mouldings don't fit perfectly but the sealant and the screws hold it together in the right place.
I can't get the bumper off on my own and have no help so before I take it to my local crash repairer to change it, I want to be reasonably sure this is OK as I do have time to return it if not.
Many thanks in advance
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