Scottish Elises

I've tried to refurb a faulty ba9s sidelight bulb holder, not really sure what's wrong but although I can get the bulb working, generally after being back in the headlamp and jiggling around on the road for a while, it fails again.

Maybe the spring in the bulb holder is going or something.

ANYWAY, found this...looks similar...anyone know if this is the right thing to get? Might be worth a punt anyway for just a couple of quid



http://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk/product/699

cheers

Campbell

Anyone who has swapped out S1 headlights will have one spare as iirc they replacement headlights come with a brand new ones.

Thanks Sanjoy.

I took a flyer on the items in question.

They arrived very promptly indeed. As luck would have it, they fit perfectly in the sidelight aperture on the headlamp, and the spade terminals are also spot on for connecting up

2 things to watch though:

- the factory lash-up sees a short extension running from the spade terminals on the lighting circuit to the original, flakey bulb holder, which has a combo of a bullet and captive spade terminal pair...doing away with this makes connection a doddle but means the cable run is about 8cm shorter (I'm going to make up short extensions with male & female spades, but you could probably just do without them I suppose)

- as Ali pointed out on another thread, you need to reverse the circuit to drive the LEDs (at least for the ones I bought), although use of the std spades as above makes this a formality (except unless you did what I did to test the bulbs and ended up shorting the circuit across the bulb end cap ... one 5A fuse later and all is well with the world!!)

So there we go. Another successful chapter...for a change.

Campbell, I might suggest some copper grease in and on each of the spade connectors in question - that way they might come apart again one day

Cheers,
Robin

good call

although the generally very good state of my headlamps, connectors and such like is probably testament to the value of a set of headlamp covers...which I've run since nearly day 1 of Elise ownership

the sidelight bulb holders were clearly just cr*p from the start though

call Ali, I have 2 new headlights on mine..... Might be worth changing to the 501 ones if possible as bulbs will be easier to get hold of?

thanks, Mark, pretty happy with the install now though and I have also been donated some spade connectors to make the extensions and take the strain off the wires