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I'm just about to go around Spain in the MX-5. But we seem to have hit a snag. We need to add some headlight beam adjusters for european travel. Yet none of the adjusters sold by Halfords, RAC or AA have the MX-5 listed. So we don't know what shape we should cut them to. Several Mazda garages have told us to buy the Lucas set and bring them in. They will then charge a huge amount of money to cut and fit them. Surely it should be easier than this. Has anyone else had the same experience? How did you overcome it? I'm tempted just to cut them to the lines for a mini. I'm going in a couple days so any help / advice would be gratefully received. By the way it is an M reg with pop up lights if this helps. (6/00) |
| If it has pop ups then ALL the yellow beam adjusters should work OK. I use the Halford ones and have never had a problem. (6/00) |
| I took thick black duck/duct tape and did it "on the fly" over there. Can't really go wrong. (6/00) |
| ust cut some black sticky tape to fit the roughly triangular area on the right of the lens, just level with and below centre - that's right as you're looking forward - so your left as you're kneeling in front of the car doing the job (ooh...er.....) Both lights are the same. We came up with a problem re Mk 2's last year. Did anyone resolve it? Apparently there's no way to convert a Mk 2 light for continental use - or did someone find a way? (6/00) |
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The MKII headlights dont have those nice marks on telling you where to stick your sticky tape so you dont blind those nice French chaps. Also, the glass covering of the headlight is not glass, which means sticking things on them (or more rather getting them off cleanly) is not as straight forward and often leaves marks. 1) Has anybody got a template thingy for the MKII headlight
they could fax me so I can stick tape in the right places? |
| From my observations during the last three weeks, people with 'clear glass' headlamps don't (cannot) convert them - this seems to apply to the majority of recent cars - Fords (esp Focus), Peugeots, Renaults, BMW's, Hondas, etc. And Mk 2 MX5's. Actually about half of those with the familiar lenses don't seem to understand where to stick the tape - I saw all sorts of weird things - on the wrong side of the lens, top half rather than bottom half, etc. Suggest you turn down the lamps to the lowest setting (ie for heaviest load) and be careful on dark roads! (8/00) |
| I just got back a week ago and just dipped my lights all the way down with the switch in the car (8/00) |
| A kit is available which covers the MKII from Halfords for ~5.99 (Lucas?). (8/00) |