Aluminium headlight adjusters

[hotel21]

I have a rebuilt adjuster in the garage, held together with araldite.  ......

I rebuilt mine with an Araldite type glue last year. All seemed well till I changed my side light the other week and found I could move my refector up & down quite freely 

Not saying that I would insert it into a headlight and expect it to work, but it will certainly serve as a dummy for a competent machinist to work from, methinks....   

[Andy B]

I have a rebuilt adjuster in the garage, held together with araldite.  ......

I rebuilt mine with an Araldite type glue last year. All seemed well till I changed my side light the other week and found I could move my refector up & down quite freely 

Not saying that I would insert it into a headlight and expect it to work, but it will certainly serve as a dummy for a competent machinist to work from, methinks....   

I can't think exactly wha tthe original is like. But I do sympathise with the bloke in So'ton to a degree if he wanted to re-design the original, it'd be handy if he had the whole thing to try his modfied adjuster in.

[hotel21]

Can perhaps see where the fella is coming from.  The original works, however, its just too fragile a material in day to day use.  No need to over engineer or find another achilles heel elsewhere in the design, there are enough broken ones in circulation already, I would estimate... 

[unlucky alf]

ive just had to do my 2nd headlight due to the dreaded adjuster, ive just used an old type & extended it as ive done before, it dont look pretty but they work fine, but would be nice if someone could make some up that are bullet proof.

[The Red Baron]

would certainly be able to sell plenty im sure.

[feeutfo]

seems perfectly reasonable to lay hands on the complete unit to me.

[Dave Elite]

This is what he said in an email

if I could get a complete headlight, even with broken adjusters then it would make it much easier to simplfy the shape and hence make machining them simpler. Its very difficult to do with only the broken bit as its not always obvious which features where put there for moulding and which are important for location etc.

[mantahatch]

I live just outside Southampton, and work in Southampton.
I am more than willing to help out.
I have some old headlights from a 96 Omega, don't no if they are the same as what you are talking about though.

[TheBoy]

I live just outside Southampton, and work in Southampton.
I am more than willing to help out.
I have some old headlights from a 96 Omega, don't no if they are the same as what you are talking about though.

I think the older 'ribbed' style headlights are different.  Besides, if the adjusters break on them, we'd recommend changing to projectors

[marribo]

Hi,

I work with Gregg machining the headlight adjusters for BMW. I am located in Tadley near Aldermaston if there are an owners willing to leand us a dud light for trials?

We just like to make sure the solution works well so you don't have complaints. The BMW E39 lights manufactured by Hella are £500ish new, we make the parts for £25 plus postage and its all dependant on the machining work required.

thanks

marribo

[Dave Elite]

Hi,

I work with Gregg machining the headlight adjusters for BMW. I am located in Tadley near Aldermaston if there are an owners willing to leand us a dud light for trials?

We just like to make sure the solution works well so you don't have complaints. The BMW E39 lights manufactured by Hella are £500ish new, we make the parts for £25 plus postage and its all dependant on the machining work required.

thanks

marribo

The e39 ones you make require 2 adjusters per headlight. There are two adjusters on each omega headlight but only one is prone to braking. So I would imagine it would be less than £25?

[Kevin Wood]

I often pass by Tadley. My parents live in Mortimer.

I don't have a duff headlight, unfortunately.

If I can assist with transporting one I'd be happy to help.

Kevin

[Marks DTM Calib]

I am sure we can arrange to get one down .....

As said, only one of the adjusters ever fails on the Omega setup......

[TheBoy]

I can get a good (AFAIK) projector down to Kevin Wood, as long as I can have it back at some point?

[feeutfo]

Tadly just up the road, i have a depo copy i can fit and supply my genuine one if needed. Its steming up anyway, bloody thing. I'm sure we can sort sumat.