[s-cars] Best place to source Euro head light lens?

[Dave Ellis]

This is the same method I used also.  A small flat screwdriver in the 
center hole and gently pried the side of the clip holding onto the 
plastic housing off first.  On those clips epoxied on, the epoxy was 
brittle and no longer stuck really well to the plastic or glass lens, 
and used the flat screwdriver to pry from the sides of the clip.

Only one epoxied clip would not release from the glass, and for this one 
I used a soldering iron (on it's lowest setting) to gently warm up the 
clip until the epoxy softened somewhat.  I've also come across someone 
using a dremel to remove stubborn epoxy in the archives.

Installation is the reverse, with fitting the clip to the glass lens 
first, and then squeezing the lens into the gasket and pushing the clip 
over the plastic housing to "snap" into place.  This seemed the best 
method to reduce the amount of stress put on the lip of the glass lens.

After reading the write-up on pulling apart the headlamps I expected 
removing the clips to be much harder than it was.  Turned out it was one 
of the easier items to disassemble on the assemblies.

-Dave


Mark Strangways wrote:
> I use a flat screwdriver to remove them, and push them back on by hand
> 
> Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com>
> To: "'Dave Ellis'" <UrS4 at sympatico.ca>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 11:16 PM
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] Best place to source Euro head light lens?
> 
> 
>> Dave,
>>
>> I have to do some lens swapping myself...what's the proper procedure for
>> removing and reinstalling the clips?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
>>> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Dave Ellis
>>> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 6:02 PM
>>> To: S-Car-List at Audifans.Com
>>> Subject: [s-cars] Best place to source Euro head light lens?
>>>
>>>
>>> O.k.  The saga of the headlamp rebuild continues.
>>>
>>> I finally managed to figure out a method for repairing/recasting the 
>>> plastic internal reflector mounting clips I broke three weeks back 
>>> (thanks to those of you who kindly offered replacement clips if needed).
>>>
>>> So tonight I start putting everything back together, and in the 
>>> process had driver's side headlamp lens crack while re-installing the 
>>> metal clips that hold it down on the housing.  Lovely.  I'm guessing 
>>> the lens was already weak since the crack went right through a stone 
>>> chip in the lens.
>>>
>>> So does anyone have a spare S4 headlamp lens lying around they'd like 
>>> to part with?  As an alternative, does anyone know the part number 
>>> for the Euro lenses (without the fluting in front of the high beam), 
>>> and where the best place to order them from is?  I've already dropped 
>>> Alex at Europrice an email.  Any other good sources?
>>>
>>> The lenses I have now are Canadian spec which I believe are the same 
>>> as the DOT spec lamps in the U.S. with no fluting in front of the low 
>>> or fog lights, and only wide vertical fluting in front of the high 
>>> beam. The part number on the cracked Driver's side lens I have now 
>>> appears to be 301-137-189-08, with DOT, SSB 370, TN-55, and SAE HRF 
>>> 91 stamped onto the lens also.
>>>
>>> Thanks list!
>>> -Dave
>>>
>>>
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