S2 Headlight Converters

Blaque · Post by **Blaque** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:39 am

A bit of advice please,

off to the continent very soon

, and as I have read some of you are just back (FF). What should I do, and or, what do I need, to convert the headlight beam for driving on the left. 53 S2 BTW.

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:51 am

There are little levers behind the clusters that can be switched. I think access is through the wheel arch, there are details of it in the owners manual but mine was destroyed so can't consult it....

Think there may have been a thread on this before though?

Blaque · Post by **Blaque** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:58 am

Did a search before posting, but nothing. Will take a look behind the wheel arches to night.

Thanks for the reply.

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:16 am

Three screws in the wheelarch releases the cover for the lights then there is a lever to flip over to convert (not a true conversion, just blanks the rhs of the dip beam).
I've done a few trips and personally never bothered.

The lights are pretty poor and probably not as dazzling to Mr Frog than your average properly adjusted Audi with HID/Xenon/Mega-candlepower...

Cheers,
Ali

Post by ed » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:32 am

i didnt bother changing mine either, only ever turned them on for tunnels and therefore never blinded, if its possible, oncoming traffic.

robin · Post by **robin** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:07 pm

Yeah, don't bother.

The funniest light conversion I have ever seen was on the Lotus factory entered car for Stelvio 99 - it was a really early chassis number, BTW, something like 2 or 3 IRC. Anyway, by 99 it had been converted to a VVC-spec car and so had headlamp covers.

The smallest piece of black leccy tape had been placed on each light cover, strangely reminiscent of this:

(tip, look under Ted's nose - that's a bit of tape stuck to the window - what makes it funnier is the knowledge that a whole crowd of japanese tourists are standing outside, and Ted thinks he's waving at them

).

GilesM · Post by **GilesM** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:43 pm

As others have said, don't bother, I checked it out before I took the car abroad the first time, however I can never be ar$ed to switch it over, earlier this year I was in germany for a month with the Elise and nobody complained/flashed at me, (ooooer).

Giles