Converting headlights to RHD
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16 years 8 months ago #114725
by Chris CW
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Anyone know how you would go about changing headlights from left hand drive to right hand drive? There a cheap fix (sticker over lense) or does it require ripping the headlights to bits?
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16 years 8 months ago #114738
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go scrappie mate thats easiest as the lenzes are different
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16 years 8 months ago #114746
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depends if lenses different... for your car with the angels? maybe re-alignment at a garage?
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16 years 8 months ago #114775
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If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
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You can get these sticky plastic things, you need them (by law) if your going to drive in france for example, so im sure there are opposite versions
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16 years 8 months ago #114777
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If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
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16 years 7 months ago #117391
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in fine spirits like a dog on heat!!!!
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some cars, especially jap one's have a lil tab inside the headlight and you can just switch it and it changes the beam pattern!!!! read the owners manual n see if there's anything in there!!!!!!!
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16 years 7 months ago #117410
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Yup some lights have lever on them to swithc from left to right. esp ebay projector ones.
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16 years 6 months ago #126354
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+1.
Higher spec European cars have them as standard now.
FYI the only thing that makes headlamps "illegal" abroad etc is the asymetric "kick" in the beam pattern we have over here. Our friends from the Commonwealth have a symmetrical beam pattern so they don't need to change their headlamps when they come here.
It's another one of those quintessentially British annoyances, like bayonet light bulbs. For fuck's sake. I mean, why do we have to have a fucking dif....
[EDIT: Just had to moderate myself, sorry about that
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PC wrote: some cars, especially jap one's have a lil tab inside the headlight and you can just switch it and it changes the beam pattern!!!! read the owners manual n see if there's anything in there!!!!!!!
+1.
Higher spec European cars have them as standard now.
FYI the only thing that makes headlamps "illegal" abroad etc is the asymetric "kick" in the beam pattern we have over here. Our friends from the Commonwealth have a symmetrical beam pattern so they don't need to change their headlamps when they come here.
It's another one of those quintessentially British annoyances, like bayonet light bulbs. For fuck's sake. I mean, why do we have to have a fucking dif....
[EDIT: Just had to moderate myself, sorry about that
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