Re: Euro lights question

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hill - PKO <Paul.Hill@digital.com>
To: 'quattro@coimbra.ans.net' <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 5:54 PM
Subject: Euro lights question


>I finally got my lights from Denon. Now if I had got them within say a
>month or two of my money being transferred into their account, I would
>have had balmy sunny weekends to potter around installing them, and if I
>hadn't had to sell my second vehicle to pay for them I would not be
>worrying about ensuring the car is drivable at the end of each working
>session. However, that was not to be. Consequently I spent several hours
>freezing my butt off to get 80% done. I now have one old , one new and
>no grille: very distinctive looking. It's interesting to note how
>brittle 12 year old plastic gets at 8 degrees F. Anyway, enough ranting,
>I had a question (or two).
>When I took the old units out, there was a nylon washer placed like a
>spacer between the headlight units lower securing tabs and the car body.
>Did anyone else find these?

Yes

>did you reinstall them with the new units?

Yes

>I can't think why they are there.

Spacers so the lights mount level


>As mentioned by another lister, there is no hole in the new units for
>the screw that holds the front trim piece on, but there is plastic
>there. I assume I need to drill a pilot hole into this. Did people do
>this before installing,

Yes. Make sure you drill squarely into the plastic boss. Hard to do with the
light mounted on the car.

 or when the trim is in place (not sure I could
>get the drill in then).
>Due to the circumstances, I wired the new lights up using individual
>faston connectors (I used the standard .25 size, what was the note I saw
>recently about a .3xx size for?), but it is a sucky job that I want to
>redo (preferably when it's warmer) with the proper connector and rubber
>boot. I found two references to the part numbers for these parts on the
>web pages, but they didn't match. The number for the rubber boots were
>the same, but the spade connector and holder numbers were different.
>Anybody actually ordered these parts and have the definitive answer?


Yes. Boot is 447 941 189, plastic connector block is 447 972 957. Use metric
spade connectors.

HTH

Fred Munro
'91 200q  266k km