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Have I knackered my headlight adjustment screw?


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I've just had to replace my passenger side headlight and when I have went to adjust the beam height using the little screws in the above picture the what appears to be a phillips head type plastic screw has basically disintegrated into nothing / rounded off.  

 

 

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Above are the adjusters I am referring to and below are pics of the horizontal adjuster which is in tact and the vertical adjuster which has self destructed / rounded itself off.

 

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Am I totally screwed here (pardon the pun) or is there any other way of sorting this?

 

Thanks in advance for an advice.

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Looks like an allen key fitting. Looks like one of them has been replaced before, hence the two different types on one light.

 

Try turning the allen bit as I fail to see how the screw in the first pic could turn separately from the hexagon bit it sits in.

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Looks like an allen key fitting. Looks like one of them has been replaced before, hence the two different types on one light.

 

Try turning the allen bit as I fail to see how the screw in the first pic could turn separately from the hexagon bit it sits in.

 

It's a brand new headlight that I only fitted a few days ago & both screws looked identical to start with. The one that has rounded off, well it was like putting a knife in butter.

 

Going to give Skoda a ring this morning as it is a brand new OEM part that shouldn't be this like.

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OK but the allen head fitting might still turn and do the same job. However, I  see what you mean about them being new and it shouldn't have broken off/rounded out in the first place.

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