Hi.Need a pair of these for my mot as they say the silver bit has discoloured.Anyone any ideas as the ones I find online seem to be mostly for left hand drive vehicles and they seemingly no longer make them?
It would be helpful to know what the base vehicle is, Romahome only build the motorhome part, the base vehicle is probably a Renault or Citroen. Your local motor factor, eBay or Euro Car Parts are likely spares sources and the owners club may be able to help with obscure parts.
Probably your best bet for an acurate reply would be Roma Club, which is the owners club.
Good luck.
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A quick google and easy to find, this one is for the R/H. I'm sure the L/H one would be there too.
There are many other suppliers that will still have them. HEADLAMP UNIT
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Quote: Originally posted by macquatic on 13/12/2022
A quick google and easy to find, this one is for the R/H. I'm sure the L/H one would be there too.
There are many other suppliers that will still have them. HEADLAMP UNIT
Those ones all state left hand drive
You could install LHD and use beam deflectors which are legal and would get you through the MOT with no problems. Not ideal but if you can't source rhd ones maybe your only option
I used to have a Romahome on a Daihatsu. The C15s along with Renault Trafic and older Ducato, no longer have headlights available for RHD. As suggested, you can go for resilvering. Another option is to swap your lenses onto LHD backs. There are many threads on doing that on the forums, and on Youtube. A thirqd option if you are able, is to remove the original headlights completely, and fabricate so that the old standard round headlights fit. They are very much available for the Classic car owners,and were British made anyway. Any that you may find with breakers are probably not fit for purpose either. Good Luck.
It may be worth speaking to some of the classic Citroen parts companies ... If they don't have stock they may be able to point you to someone who may. I would think the C15 shares headlights with some Visa models. Maybe speak to the Chevronic Centre (in Herts I think) or Retrospec Parts (not sure where he is based).
We have the same issue in our Mk1 Renault Trafic Group, there are companies that refurbish the silvering of the headlight, however we get them done through third parties so cannot name them unfortunately, the cost is equivalent of buying a new set of left hand drive headlights so cost effective. As mentioned LHD headlights with beam deflectors are legal in the UK and it makes going abroad a lot easier too! have you had a look at vehicle dismantlers there are part finder websites that a query is made with then the request is sent to a large number of scrapyards to find the parts, just be aware the prices that may be asked, good luck.
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The 7 inch round light units are easily obtained. I replaced a set on my Series 3 Landie. They came with the plastic rear bowls to,replace the rusted originals and halogen bulbs. They were a lot brighter than the sealed beam units.
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A recent programme on car restoration (either Wheeler Dealers or Car SOS) had plastic headlight reflectors being `chromed` by a company that could apply the chrome-effect to virtually any rigid surface. Very effective and apparently much cheaper than re-chroming.
Not sure which particular company they used, but a quick google threw up Dual Metallising in Birmingham (probably others about) that could do the job.
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