145 headlight required for mot!!!

kdb car audio · #1 (**Post Link**) 12-03-12

help has anyone out there got a passenger headlight for a 145 year 2000. mine has just failed the mot on alignment!!! needs the adjusters intact and the internals not shaking about like most of the scrap ones i have come acroos. let me know ta very much!!!

GialloEvo94 · #2 (**Post Link**) 13-03-12

If you want a more permanent solution to the broken headlight reflector adjuster issue then take look at the following thread where there is a group buy currently going on (go to post #93 onwards in that thread for group buy details)...

Alfa145.com - Reflector Adjusters In Teflon Material

Well worth the investment IMO and a permanent fix to this very common issue.

The problem with replacement second-hand headlights is that unfortunately they are just going to end up the same way due to one of many bad decisions by the Alfa designers to use plastic that ends up going very brittle with age so if you use second-hand lights then it's quite likely you would end up having to replace them again before next years MOT.

kdb car audio · #3 (**Post Link**) 13-03-12

yes thats true they are all brittle. i had 3 headlights and they were all the same!!! thanks for the link.

idawg · #4 (**Post Link**) 20-03-12

Has anyone bought and fitted a set of these? What are they like to fit and are they a good quality product?

GialloEvo94 · #5 (**Post Link**) 20-03-12

Originally Posted by idawg

Has anyone bought and fitted a set of these? What are they like to fit and are they a good quality product?

I've got a set on their way to me in the post. Other people who've already fitted them have not been disappointed. There are pictures of them in the thread link of my previous post.

kdb car audio · #6 (**Post Link**) 20-03-12

yes i have just fitted 2 they are fab. just be careful taking the glass off someone had already been at mine and it was sealed with grey gunk!! yuk!!! just emmissions to get past now. its reading 6.6% any ideas could it be the oxy sensor? ta keith.

GialloEvo94 · #7 (**Post Link**) 20-03-12

Did you do the "Italian tune up" just before the MOT and make sure the emissions test was done while the engine was still red hot?

kdb car audio · #8 (**Post Link**) 21-03-12

we did indeed as the mot tester is a good friend of mine (although provides no dodgey favours!) and is very sympathetic towards italian cars as he is an x lancia technician from the late eighties. it was running for hours!!! but thanks all the same for the tip. always good to have a nice hot cat!!

GialloEvo94 · #9 (**Post Link**) 21-03-12

If you've got FiatECUScan I would hook it up and see what the Lamba readings are.

What did you use to bond the glass back to the headlamps after you fitted the new adjusters? I've got some tigerseal left over from last year when I welded up the floorpan so was thinking that might be be suitable(?)

kdb car audio · #10 (**Post Link**) 22-03-12

if you use tiger seal that will be the last time you open them!!! if thats ok then it will definitely do the job!!! i used black silicon sealant so if i need to replace a lens in the future i can.

GialloEvo94 · #11 (**Post Link**) 22-03-12

Cheers for that. I'll get myself down to B&Q then

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