Re: plastic headlight lens?

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

At 12:30 24.05.98 -0800, Phil and Judy Rose wrote:

>Are plastic headlights commonly used on other makes of cars? I can't
>imagine the lighting from these would be any worse than Audi headlights of
>the same vintage, but certainly the plastic ought to be a lot cheaper to
>replace (and more resistant to stone damage?).

I thought all US-spec cars have plastic headlamp lenses. At least our
US-spec Renault has ones (suck to the max, gonna replace them with Euros
this month) and all US-spec Fords, which are quite popular here, have
plastic lenses as well. A cheap but dirty method to convert them to
European specifications (required by law here) is to grind the plastic lens
flat, polish it to make it transparent again then insert a small
rectangular Hella reflector into the DOT headlamp.


Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)