Quick opinion poll basically...

Leave 'em on, or confine them to the garage?

Or even junk them altogether.

Do they really offer any useful protection? (One of my headlights is beginning to show a bit of checking on the lens anyway, and the levellers don't work on both, so at some point I'm going to have to replace them I suspect...

dunno protects them from stone chips? Hit a pigeon once and even though the lens was fine the shock broke all the fixings inside the lamp, personally I think it would of done the same with protectors on lol

I put covers on mine as the headlight units are expensive and didn't want any more stone chips.

Also to do is spray tint the inner surface.

Also to do is spray tint the inner surface.

Really????

I struggle to see as it is.

I'm probably a bit old for all that crap anyway. To me it's just transport. Cosmetics, meh, can't be bothered really. Perhaps if it was in better nick I might feel different... ;oD

skodas

Edited 18 May, 201214 yr by OU51

They look cack. Bin them, or sell them to some weirdo.

They look cack. Bin them, or sell them to some weirdo.

See, that's what I was thinking, although I don't normally worry about cosmetics. What does bother me though is that on sh!tty days, you have two sets of fogged up plastic messing up the beam. Off it is!

They look cack. Bin them, or sell them to some weirdo.

I've only ever seen one other VRS with them on and yup, it looked cack! I wonder how much they were as a dealer fit option.

They came with mine - I think Ill leave them on because if nothing else they protect the headlight a little more, they dont look that bad IMO

they are gay, get rid of them, lights are cheap in the VERY unlikely event they get damaged

they are gay, get rid of them, lights are cheap in the VERY unlikely event they get damaged

Id rather spend my spare money on modifying/servicing my car than replacing a headlight to be honest

Edited 17 May, 201214 yr by Gtiracer

Well, given they're fairly soft plastic anyway (the lights that is), rather than glass, and there isn't even the hint of a mark on either of my guards, I'm going to junk them. I'm in agreement that damage to the lights is not likely (never damaged a light before in the last 20 years, other than deliberate, and my lights are begging to be replaced anyway even if they did bite the dust, given the strange stress marks on one of them, which can't be doing wonders for the beams.

Guards removed.

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