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Offline illyun

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HELP !
« on: 15 December 2006, 14:54 »
I am planning on driving my R32 to the south of Spain and looked into what I have to do to get my headlights road legal over there.  I assumed that I would just have to fork out £4 to £5 as before for some stickers.  Then I found out that you cannot use these as the Mk5 headlight shapes do not have any stickers that work with them.  No problem I thought as I had heard that you can buy headlight protectors that do the same job - can't cost more than £20-35 I thought.  So I rang the dealer and was told that the headlight protectors can't be used either as the xenons generate too much heat.  Solution?  You have to flick a lever on the back of the headlight.  Cost? £147 to change to Euro-spec and another £147 when you come back to change to UK-Spec!!!  Its all in the labour cost as its 2 hours labour taking the grill and stuff off.  So VW are basically saying that it will cost almost £300 to allow me the privilege of driving in Europe.  I cannot believe that they did not consider this when installing the xenons on this model.  I will be ringing and writing to VW customer services as this cost is unacceptable and I think there is a safety issue here too because the work will be done in Ipswich and then I will be driving down to Dover and blinding drivers on the opposite side of the road as my xenons will be Euro-spec.  :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

I am considering doing this myself.  Is it easy to remove the grill - I feel a bit apprehensive as it is a brand new car and what worries me is that I do not want to damage the xenon units by doing something that I shouldn't
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Offline wantmygti

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Re: HELP !
« Reply #1 on: 15 December 2006, 15:26 »
I've done it on an Audi. Not too hard just fiddly, and you have to remember where the levers were when you started!
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Re: HELP !
« Reply #2 on: 17 December 2006, 13:30 »
"xenons generate too much heat"

Thats BS mate - VW dealers talk some sh1t!

I will go look at my missus ones and try to do a "how to" if I can  :wink:
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Re: HELP !
« Reply #3 on: 17 December 2006, 14:02 »
« Last Edit: 17 December 2006, 14:16 by The Doc »
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Re: HELP !
« Reply #4 on: 17 December 2006, 14:18 »
 Euro-spec wont cause any problems over here BTW as beam is "flat" - you will see what I mean when you do it!
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