Ricardod Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Hi, i recently took over golddigga's car and its a marvelous beasty. Its an NA 94 silver with one heck of a list with mods. Getting to the point: Its got facelift UK spec headlights. My question is can i modify these so they will be LHD spec If so how can i do this, the headlights are allready out of the car and i started to break it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Bullitt Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Afraid not mate you will have to sell the Uk's and purchase a set of LHD lights. They are very expensive, see post 13. http://mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=203175 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbloodyturbo Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 ignore this, think I've just been proven wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardod Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 But ive seen several people that were able to do a modification to their headlights and make them LHD spec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Why not ask them how to do it then? I havent heard of it. Also, what do you mean by facelift UK spec? There is no such thing to my knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themodifiedkid Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 There's UK spec, Pre facelift jspec, and facelift jspec!!!, unless i'm wrong:blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardod Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 Well its a pretty hard thing to modify they said. I need to drill holes and use my common sence to put the mirror in a way so it deflects the light the right way. The problem is im scared of skrewwing my lights lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Well its a pretty hard thing to modify they said. I need to drill holes and use my common sence to put the mirror in a way so it deflects the light the right way. The problem is im scared of skrewwing my lights lol. That really doesn't sound like fun. Is it not the glass lens that directs the beam of light? I was sure the pattern of the beam was down to the lens and nothing to do with mirrors. If that is the case then it sounds like a bit of a bodge. Simplest solution would be to sell yours on and buy some squeeky new LHD ones. I think they go for about £300. 2nd hand you would easily see £200 so the cost would be minimal. Obviously postage would come into it with where you live but I think it would be better than potentially scrapping them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InSvain Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 ehm maybe this will help you ricardo there is a solution for your problem because there is a guy who did it without drilling hole`s the guy`s name is Ray and he ownes a company called ATS-Imports and it`s in Veenendaal at the Turbinestraat here`s the name of his site http://www.autobedrijfats.nl/ just give him a call Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 ehm maybe this will help you ricardo there is a solution for your problem because there is a guy who did it without drilling hole`s the guy`s name is Ray and he ownes a company called ATS-Imports and it`s in Veenendaal at the Turbinestraat here`s the name of his site http://www.autobedrijfats.nl/ just give him a call Wow. Maybe you could get Ray to explain the process and post it here. We have a lot of European members who may be able to benefit from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaahari Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 (edited) I made conversion diy about year ago From old second-hand rhd facelift lights, new were near 700£ at local toyota I disassembled lens (with big heat gun) and inner parts are easy to disassemble, all are with phillips head screws. You have to "turn" light pattern of a hmm.. metal plate to opposite direction, then actual light pattern turns The only thing that changes, is the hmm.. gap of metal to other side, no changes to lens, reflector etc. Easiest to do that is to make a metal plate with gap on different side and using screws, attach to original plate. Higher part of original "metal plate" must be also leveled, but once you got housing in your hand, it is it`s quite self-explanatory Heres picture, (look lower picture) how the inside looks modded, the lower part is on other side... also the edge must be sharp (picture from finnish forum). ps. sorry about bad english http://kuvablogi.com/nayta/prev/img904096.jpg Edited December 31, 2009 by kaahari (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InSvain Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 i`ve already tried him into telling me how to however he just smiled at me hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 I bought some second hand German spec lights (Glass and LHD) for about 100 euro. The best thing is they have all the correct markings on them. I think that's a better solution than possibly messing up some nice facelifts which you can get alot of money for unmolested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InSvain Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 well that`s just the problem right there you will need to spend alot of money to get the already LHD glass facelift ones and Gman you just got lucky with the 100euro ones because new ones LHD Glass costs about 500 up to 600 euro`s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 The simplest solution would be to sell the RHD facelift lights and buy some LHD facelift lights, although the LHD ones are a bit more expensive to buy new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I'm still confused, are they glass (UK spec) or plastic (Facelift) as you meantion both in the first post? I'm guessing you meant they are RHD and Facelift? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 why not look on one of the us forums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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