I have a 2004 Fabia hatchback that failed the MOT on headlights. Something about the pattern not being right, and a polish being required. It is a 1.2HTP, engine code AWY.

 

This has happened for several years running. The usual solution is to take it to a garage who perform a placebo treatment and issue an invoice. It then passes the retest because I have an invoice for a repair. The headlights work perfectly fine in that they illuminate the road well.

 

I wondered if someone had a better solution, or knew the manufacturers code for replacement headlights. The car is an LHD import, but back in the day there was no difficulty fitting the headlights, so the current ones should be standard parts.

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

 

Recent Headlight thread

These are RHD and correct for UK roads.

 

https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/aftermarket-headlamp-471780101

 

https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/aftermarket-headlamp-471780091

 

I put a set of these on, you'll be able to see the difference for yourself in this image. Left is the new one, right is the old one. I'd have offered you my old units but I've just sold them on.

 

 

Hope this helps.

By far the smartest and easiest thing to do is to compound cut and polish the headlights, I do it every year before the MOT, takes ten minutes.

Many thanks for the replies. Does anyone have any comments about https://www.autodoc.co.uk/dpa/13161679 and https://www.autodoc.co.uk/dpa/13161703 ? They are under half-price of the ones at https://www.eurocarparts.com/ that someone mentioned earlier. Any warnings about compatibility would be especially helpful. It is a .co.uk site, but there is nothing obvious to indicate if they are RHD. Thanks again.

I don't think the Autodoc ones are RHD, I believe they're LHD. I enquired regarding their 'Johns' headlights, which is when they informed me that they are LHD only.

1 hour ago, jeremiah said:

It is a .co.uk site

Masquerading as a UK local site, but actually Berlin based.

RHD headlights all have part numbers beginning 6Y2 rather than 6Y1 of the LHD ones, see here: individual parts; ============================== - Fabia(FAB) [EUROPA 2004 year] (7zap.com)

 

This link may be easier to interpret. 

LLLParts

Edited 16 February, 20224 yr by Pete_Ex-Wino

16 minutes ago, Pete_Ex-Wino said:

Masquerading as a UK local site, but actually Berlin based.

Yep and they are actually 4 more firms which claim to be UK based as well.

16 minutes ago, Stewartasb said:

Yep and they are actually 4 more firms which claim to be UK based as well.

 

It's a bit like ECP (Euro Car Parts) having sister firms, such as CarParts4Less who I used for my lights.

I went with carparts4less as they were cheap and stated the headlights were RHD. Their customer service was a bit special, but probably broadly what someone driving an 18-year-old Skoda would want. You may have a better experience if you create an account before ordering.

 

The rather brief MOT re-test passed. 

 

Many thanks to everyone who replied :-)