The outer headlights had gone the way of most
QI units, rotten and replaced with new QI lenses and bulbs.
The back cups on the inner smaller units were rotten to
the core but the wonderful sealed beams were still as shiny
as new.
New plastic inners were sourced and fitted easily
apart from the devious connectors. I thought I could get
away with cleaning up the outer cups and fitting new retaining
rings but they were too rotten to hold the lenses properly
so on the fabled trip for the choke cable I spied more goodies
from a poor old Landy with new plastic headlamp units and
they were soon mine.
And here they are
I reconditioned them somewhat at my leisure and
some of that equaly fabled resin was pressed into service
on the chrome rims to prevent the march of rot. I replaced
various lenses on indicators and fog lights and will soon
fit my new outer shells. I also got the outer sealed beams
from Landy, when my new QI lenses rot, old technology will
prevail.
Now where is that Citroen BX? |