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Mike H
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Adventures With Lamps
« on: Apr 26th, 2011, 8:30pm » |
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This started last Thursday with a headlamp being smashed by some moron who shouldn't be let loose in a car park without a refresher course how to manouvre in and out of a parking space 
Anyway got another unit and thought easier (?) to just swap the glass and surround, as it's only clipped on (4 plastic clips).
In theory  ~ still freakin' resistant though, problee not helped by it not being the same lamp unit that it originally came off of.
It helps to loosen the mounting bolts so the unit can be pulled forward / wiggled about a bit. Also have to take off the inboard plastic cover ~ 3x torx screws, but found a screwdriver to fit.
To get at the two clips underneath remove indicator lamp (sans foglamp). The handbook is vague ~ turns out the inboard end has a tongue that pops into a slot in the bumper moulding, so easiest recourse was merely to prise it free with a large blunt screwdriver, then it comes off in ya mitts....
To find it's a quarter full of water!  There's a crack in the top where the rain gets in. 'Cept we haven't had rain for weeks so maybe it was when I washed it last Sundee.... (?)
Gaffer tape to the rescue (after pouring out the contents). Also treated it to a new bulb + squirt of WD40.
While on the subject could check & WD40 all the other bulb holders as well. Which was something I was meaning to do anyway...
One of the tail light bulbs is 10 Watts.  Oo-er. Not that it matters since I dropped it and broke it trying to get it back in (why do the boot lid corner bulb holders have so little room to work in?), so it's reverted to a 5W from the spares
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #1 on: Apr 26th, 2011, 9:28pm » |
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I was in the local Dingbro, and they say the 'standard' rear is a 10w.
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #2 on: Apr 27th, 2011, 8:35am » |
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Sidelight bulbs front and rear are 5watt, the brake and indicators and rear fogs are 21watt.
there are NO 10watts as far as I know .
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Mike H
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #3 on: Apr 27th, 2011, 6:13pm » |
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That's what the book says as well!
Had the indicator unit out again today to dry out in the hot sun, still a bit of fogging inside. Actually my gaffer taping could be better as well, seems the crack is longer than I first thought....
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #4 on: Apr 27th, 2011, 6:28pm » |
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Sorted, another job jobbed.
Appendix: the sans-foglamp version has the foglamp section with curved back reflector and everything but it's just blank at the back, no 'oles. One might convert it to work as foglight by making a hole for a bulb to go in if one was clever enough.
Which reminds me, I've got two 2-pin connectors tie-wrapped to the cross member in front of the radiator and doing nowt whatsoever, could these be front foglamp connectors does anyone suppose?
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #5 on: Apr 27th, 2011, 10:30pm » |
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on Apr 26th, 2011, 8:30pm, Mike H wrote:This started last Thursday with a headlamp being smashed by some moron who shouldn't be let loose in a car park without a refresher course how to manouvre in and out of a parking space
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SNAP!
The same happened to me last June and the case has not been settled yet. My moron claims 1. that I crashed into him 2. he did not sustain any damage and 3. I was on the wrong side of the lane and that is why I hit him.
You can read about it here http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Advice;action=di splay;num=1279885409;start=0#0
I hope you have more luck with yours than I did with mine.
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #6 on: Apr 28th, 2011, 6:40pm » |
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on Apr 27th, 2011, 10:30pm, Toriitom wrote:
Oh yes I remember.
Nah far less hassle to DIY TBH ~ plus I wasn't in it at the time. Mind you his is problee as scraped up as mine was ~ what we do know it was a blue 1996 1.8 Audi saloon so if anyone spots one with Ford augergine scratches on one corner then that's the kiddie
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #7 on: May 18th, 2011, 11:53am » |
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ARRGH there's water in it again. Using tape is obviously not good enough, I'm going to have to get more sophisticated....
This is what a no-foglamps version looks like BTW. Yet the unused section is still like a complete lamp with curved reflector and everything, just empty; if you put a hole in the back for a bulb I'm sure it would work
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #8 on: May 18th, 2011, 2:41pm » |
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Just checked if the spare I have was any good – of course it’s the wrong side.
The reflector & lens is a different shape on the ones with fog lights – I wouldn’t bother anyway, they’re as much use as a chocolate teapot.
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #9 on: May 18th, 2011, 6:47pm » |
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I guess it would be, it's just a token fog lamp looking thing that is OK if it doesn't actually work.
Still trying to dry it out, then I need to get creative with some Araldite methinks
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #10 on: May 18th, 2011, 8:13pm » |
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Mike, did you drill some holes in the bottom of the lens to drain the water away as I suggested? Lee
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #11 on: May 19th, 2011, 10:19am » |
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No.
I got more sophisticated, see next....
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #12 on: May 19th, 2011, 10:32am » |
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At last! Managed to get it totally dried out, by leaving it for an hour or so in front of a blower heater.
Then this morning, Araldite a go-go....
Spot the repair? No OK about 3 - 4 inches of the top seam had split, with an actual little hole at one point, where all the rain water off the bonnet & wing goes straight in.
Should be totally sealed up now like as new.
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #13 on: May 19th, 2011, 5:55pm » |
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Mike, looks good  . Lets hope it stays dry and free of water. Lee
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #14 on: May 20th, 2011, 4:18pm » |
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Time will tell thanks, but assuming I didn't miss anything should be tighter than a duck's nether regions
Incidentally having had a closer look at the double lamp set-up (Lee's) I'm slightly bemused why the designers didn't opt to put it all in a single lamp unit like this one, it's so much smoother across the front as a single complete lens with no obvious joins. Ever so much easier to remove and put back as well.
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I've got a holy exhaust!
And I don't mean like this, lol 
Must have happened on the way back from Clacton
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #15 on: May 20th, 2011, 5:32pm » |
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Are you blaming Clacton
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #16 on: May 20th, 2011, 8:39pm » |
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Certainly not, as if
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #17 on: Jun 2nd, 2011, 4:06pm » |
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Seems the Araldite is holding up. 
The blowing exhaust turned out to be extra long slots in the end of a pipe, bottom end of the cat I think; the joint had moved a bit exposing the ends of the slots. Mechanic banged it back together more and that is that.
I also had a new ancillary belt on as well ~ NO IDEA when the last one was. Not in my time anyway and that's going on 7 years.
With the benefit of closer inspection (i.e., removed), the old one is very "tired" looking!
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #18 on: Sep 24th, 2012, 7:59pm » |
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Remember this?
Noticed it was half full of water again after a quick wash. Only saw it 'cause straight after it just happened to be parked in a different place to normally so's I could see it from indoors.
My original Araldite repair hadn't gone far enough.
Literally. Turns out the crack had gone all along the top and round the bend at the inboard end! Needed a magnifiying glass to even see it but it was there. Soapy water gets in no prob.
Out with the Araldite again, hopefully properly sorted now!
As suggested earlier, got a couple of little holes in the bottom just in case it isn't....
Larks, eh
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Re: Adventures With Lamps
« Reply #19 on: Sep 24th, 2012, 10:54pm » |
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Mike, I have a boxed brand new one available(not sure which side I have and what one of yours is broken) Cheers Lee
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