Subject: Headlight Repair

[Richard J. Andrews]

I purchase a set of 4kq h4/h1's for $100 with busted brackets.
i repaired them all for around $20.
i went to home depot with the light and found a suitable right angle piece of
metal (I don't recall what it was for, some bracket) after some work with
the  bench grinder, drilling mounting holes and scuffing the plastic. i
applied jb weld and then put the brackets in place, then put some over the
brackets as well. 3 months later they are holding fine :)
i honestly doubt these will ever separate from the housings unless the car
has a front end incident. (knock on wood)

but with a little ingenuity you can probably get something that will work
out fine. The JB weld did the trick for me, but make sure and let them set
up 24 hours before messing with mounting them.

HTH!
rich
'86 4kq

At 10:50 PM 9/15/02, you wrote:
>In a message dated 9/15/02 10:36:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>200q20v-request at audifans.com writes:
>
>
>Taka writes:
>---
>Has anyone successfully repaired the upper headlight
>mounts for eurolights?
>
>I know this sounds like a question specific to my 200q,
>but I know that the UrS headlamps use the same stupid
>design- if you're not careful, it's easy to snap off the
>cantilevered plastic top mounts of the headlamps.
>
>I need to find an epoxy adhesive or something similar
>that can bond this plastic, as well as a suitable chunk
>of plastic that I can bond to the top of the headlamp in
>order to use the OEM headlamp mount screw to hold it in place.
>
>Any suggestions as to how to best accomplish this?
>
>I went to the FLAPS and the best I could find was 3M plastic
>trim adhesive- the epoxies I've found all specifically said
>they don't work with polyethylene or polypropylene plastics,
>one of which I believe the headlamp housing to be, unless it's
>some sort of glass-impregnated nylon composite.
>
>Taka
>---
>
>http://www.loctite.com/pdf/bondingguide.pdf
>and
>http://www.loctite.com/literature/design_plastic.html
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>Chris Miller, Bolton MA USA, c1j1miller at aol.com
>'91 200q20v ==> http://members.aol.com/c1j1miller/index.html
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