Daylight headlight Skoda Octavia

[mossi]

just purchased my octavia VRS estate, 2003, lovely car, cant beleive how much go shes got, guy before me had it tuned, sports car, stainless steel full exhaust, larger wheels, he really looked after it, so its had a damn good life, fsh.. my question is, i want to change the headlights, i love the look of the hid preojector beam style with the built in daylight running lights, but the company selling them say the are LHD only and are not legal on UK roads, is there anyway you can adjust these for RHD ? i know i other light sets ive bougth over the years you can flick a lever and it switches to RHD, has anyone fitted these >

 

[Guest]

There was someone on here that fitted these headlights and converted them to RHD. Not sure if he's still on here though and I can't remember his user id either sorry. I was looking at the same ones, but put off with the LHD only problem.

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[AndyRG]

There was someone on here that fitted these headlights and converted them to RHD. Not sure if he's still on here though and I can't remember his user id either sorry. I was looking at the same ones, but put off with the LHD only problem.

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that be me lol

[mossi]

that be me lol

excellant how did you get on, was it easy ? any pics ?

 

thanks

[AndyRG]

lol well you take a set of £200 brand new headlights, then order 2 new universal rhd projector fittings off ebay.. that's the easy part

 

then its a case of sticking the oven on at 200 and while it heating up remove any screws, clips, rubbers, bulbs ect and stick them in oven for about 10 mins until the seal round glass starts to melt ( I used a video from youtube for this) once they are open you can remove the lhd projectors and replace with the new rhd ones, I had to cut some of the surrounding plastic when fitting the new projectors so they sat correctly but this depends on the projectors you get.

once the new ones fitted its a case of resealing them.. I waited to do this until I had them checked to make sure they passed an mot..

 

i must say this is not for the faint hearted :peek: ..... tactical 87 has these fitted too, and he just changes his back to the old ones for the mot..

[mossi]

sounds like its worth a go, i can get the lights for £155 landed from Italy, do you have any pics of how yours look, do the DRL work withouyt the lights on, simple to wire ?

[AndyRG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziQA_VqrJE

 

yea were simple enough to wire, plug on it fits to original on loom and the drl were wired into a switched live so they on all the time

 

only advice I can give is take ur time when trying to open them, if you take them out oven and leave them for a minute or 2 to allow the heat to travel into the seal, I had to put one of them back in the oven to reheat it before it came off and I never removed the glass completely left the opposite  side to the projector on and held the glass up to get in to the screws...

 

and keep close eye on them when they in the oven, cause if u heat them too much they WILL start to melt plastics and wires.. I placed 2 bits of wood in oven and sat lights on top of them with the wires resting on the wood

[Guest]

sounds like its worth a go, i can get the lights for £155 landed from Italy, do you have any pics of how yours look, do the DRL work withouyt the lights on, simple to wire ?

Got a link to the lights for £155 please?

[mossi]

I use my vat registered company to get the 19% vat removed, but there is a brand new set on ebay at the mo for £149

 

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=281683300575

 

 

Got a link to the lights for £155 please?