Light fitting

[rabeys@cadvision.com (Sean Rabey)]

>	Hmmm... backing plates?  Where do they go?!  What I have essentially looks
>like it's the same size as the US lights when you take them out.. you know,
>it has the two lenses on it, plus the side marker mounts on it..  Isn't
>that the backing plate?  Or is there another piece.  The holes all line up
>with my US holes... and it looks like the whole thing might fit if it were
>maybe 1/2cm shorter, cause it seems to follow the contour of the metal
>surrounding it..
>	I'm rambling...
>	sorry.  :P  Just a bit disappointed.

        Thats OK, i know how you feel, but I think you are in luck.  sounds
like you do have the mounting plates.  They are the metal(unpainted) plates
that mount to the body, and then the headlights mount to them.  When i first
got mine, someone wrote me telling me exactly how to mount them on.
Unfortunatly i erased that, but i remember he said that you just take the
old lights and plates off, and the new ones just screw right in with the
exception of one hole, that is moved for the euro style plates, but there
should be a hole allready drilled that you will see when you hold the plate
up the the position it should be in.  You just have to move one of the
plastic screw back type things to the new hole(thats the best way i can
describe them).  Sorry this doesn't make sense, but the best way to do it is
just hold them up to the car, and you'll see how they go on.  i assume
you've taken the old backing plates off.  If you havn't, that'd be the first
step.  If it doesn't work, than maybe you did get them from a bus.  


>	I have a friend coming over from Germany in a couple of weeks.  If you
>describe to me exactly what you (and maybe I) need, I can see if he'll get
>it for us...
>			

        Thanks, but i'm in the process of sending them back.  My euro light
dilema is a ling story, but i have many reasons for sending them back,
cracked lights, missing mounts...

                hope that helps.  Write back if there is something i didn't
make clear.


                                Owen
                                87 16V


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