Hi,

Anyone know how to convert the headlights to dip to the left instead of to the right?? :confused:

Want to bring my european Z over

Hi Bix,

 

I found some converters to do RHD to LHD and they say they do the same in the other direction. Of course it's only temporary but it might get you through.

 

Here's my RHD Z dressed up for French motoring

 

I got them from

http://www.travel-spot.co.uk/products/eurolites.htm

surely gotta be better to source a pair of 2nd hand headlamp units...

ZX lights are so poor to start with, do you really want to put anything over them that is going sap any of the small amount of light you have got??

 

Just a thought

Thanks Both,

 

I was hoping that I could just reorient the projector lamps and avoid the trouble of headlamp removal

 

Does anyone have a set of lights they wish to sell - is this the only way????

 

Regards

Thanks Both,

 

I was hoping that I could just reorient the projector lamps and avoid the trouble of headlamp removal

My old Calibra had a little switch on each headlight which did this (very handy it was too).

 

But that's rare - most headlights are "handed". This is to do with the little Fresnel lenses which are moulded into the inside of the glass. Some go left and up and some go right and up (the light pattern they throw, I mean). LHD > RHD (and RHD > LHD) converters only block the bit of the lens which does the "and up" bit.

 

So you can do a temp bodge by sticking a sticker (either a bought one or masking tape if you know which bit of the Fresnel to mask) over your headlight. It is probably more true to say this converts RHD to flat (or LHD to flat) rather than RHD > LHD.

 

But if you want to really convert LHD > RHD (i.e a light pattern which kicks up to the right converted to one that kicks up to the left) you can only change the lens (which in our case means the headlight) or buy a Calibra.

 

LHD = drive on the right = dip is horizontal across the road to the left (so not to blind oncoming traffic on your left) and kicked up on the right (so you see the ditch / pedestrian).

 

RHD = drive on the left = dip is horiz on the right and kicked up on the left.

 

Cheers - Gio the physicist

Does anyone have a set of lights they wish to sell - is this the only way????

 

Regards

 

Your right, this is the only decent way of doing it imo why not try one of the breakers, theres lots of cheap parts around on here.

Thanks Gio, Dave,

Thanks for the explanation.

I didn't look at the lights close enough and mistakenly thought that the glass was clear(doh!).

Looks like the hunt is on!

Regards