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Aluminium Headlight Adjusters For Vauxhall / Opel Omegas

Post 1998 headlights (manufactured by Hella) have a plastic internal adjuster which is made from a material called PBT and is highly prone to breaking.

Once the adjuster has snapped the headlights can 'bounce' or 'wobble' and don't point in the correct direction. if this has happened to you I'm sure your aware how annoying it is! This could also result in an MOT failure.

The GM group or Hella do not make this component as a spare part, headlights with broken adjusters need the complete unit replaced at a large cost.

The broken internal adjusters can be replaced with the aluminium components sold here.



The components are machined from aluminium alloy billet and are supplied as singles, enough for one headlight. The parts are a slightly different shape from the original, this was done to ease machining and hence reduce the cost. Although the shape is slightly different they will work in exactly the same way but they are much stronger in both their design and the material from which they are made.

The adjuster is good for one headlight either driver or passenger side they are £12 each and are shipped first class recorded delivery (£2.00 to UK mainland, £10 Worldwide). The postage cost is the same how ever many parts you need.

A detailed description for fitting the parts can be found HERE

The fitting procedure is simple, if you follow the instructions, to change the adjuster in a single unit took me about and hour.

If you want these parts either PM me or email me at gad74@talktalk.net

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General Car Chat / Re: Aluminium headlight adjusters
« on: 08 August 2011, 20:53:00 »
Sorry if you've tried to PM me about these, the forum isn't forwarding messages to me for some reason.

If you want these parts just email me your paypal email address and the number of parts you want to gad74@talktalk.net, sorry for any delays.

Gregg

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General Car Chat / Re: Aluminium headlight adjusters
« on: 14 April 2010, 19:58:59 »
Hi all,

I have now made more of these, so if you want any Pm me.

Thanks
Gregg

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General Car Chat / Re: Aluminium headlight adjusters
« on: 10 April 2010, 22:25:11 »
I do, but I didn't have much luck putting them on this morning. If you pm me your e-mail address I'll send them to you.

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General Car Chat / Re: Aluminium headlight adjusters
« on: 10 April 2010, 13:03:52 »
Thanks, how many thousands do you want?

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General Car Chat / Re: Aluminium headlight adjusters
« on: 10 April 2010, 11:55:55 »
Cheers, I'm having a talentless day!

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General Car Chat / Re: Aluminium headlight adjusters
« on: 10 April 2010, 11:20:57 »
Ok, so I'm done (I hope), I have made 3 parts, fitted one to the broken unit I was given, I'll send one to Dave Elite for evaluation and donate the other to fix the other unit provided, which also appears to be snapped.

The part is pictured below, I am planning on putting them on eBay for £15 (+p&p) each, but if anyone from this forum wants them then how does £12 plus £2 p&p sound? I've also written a 'how to' manual, which I can email to purchasers to make fitting simpler.

If you're interested email Marribo on gad74@talktalk.net and I'll run more off next week.

Looking forward to your feedback.

If there are any other parts that are hard to find or highly over priced that I may be able to help with just let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Thanks
Gregg


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General Car Chat / Re: Aluminium headlight adjusters
« on: 06 April 2010, 13:08:31 »
Fitting these will be quicker, easier and looking at the shape and size of the part I don't think too expensive either.

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General Car Chat / Re: Aluminium headlight adjusters
« on: 03 April 2010, 03:54:42 »
Hi there, I have disassembled the headlight with the broken adjuster and I don't currently see any issues with making the part in aluminium. Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing is the part you need making just the longer of the 2 adjusters, the one furthest from the indicator? On the unit I have this part is made from black PBT, part number 147 756? Is this the only component liable to break? The outer adjuster and the 'sockets' that the ball on the end of the adjuster locates are made of POM (Delrin) and as a result I assume are much less likely to snap, is this the case?

I'll program all 3 parts, both adjusters and the sockets, but making the sockets I can see as a bit of a challenge at present. But judging by the unit I have only the black, inner component is needed?

I am expecting to be able to get the inner component made next week so we should be able to get the fixed unit back to its owner (sorry, I a bit confused as to who that was, but I'll let Marribo sort that!).


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General Car Chat / Re: Aluminium headlight adjusters
« on: 02 March 2010, 09:41:47 »
Hi, I'm the guy Dave Elite has been talking to about making these parts.

I wanted a complete unit as its much easier to see if it's possible to simplify the shape of the component without limiting its use if I can see how its mounted. Being able to do this means that I can machine them more quickly and hence make them more cheaply. It may be that the component that you are discussing is already very simple, but as I've never seen one I can't really comment! If it's anything like the angel eye e39 BMW one then it's much more complicated than it needs to be. You can see these on eBay (item no. 250584102205).

I work with Marribo, and reading this thread it looks like some one who lives close to him can donate a complete unit, that would be great and we can return it with fixed adjusters.

There is no rush as I am of to New Zealand on Thursday and won't be back until Easter, so if you could ge the unit to Marribo by then I'll start as soon as I return.

Thanks

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