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MG MGA - Where to get Halogen Headlamps (LHD)?

Can anyone tell me where to get Halogen headlamps for a left hand drive?

Thanks,

Ian
Ian Pearl

Ian

I went to http://www.holden.co.uk/hvc-home.htm to buy left hand drive lights last summer for my trip to France. I have just checked their site and they do appear to stock what you need.

However, the salesman told me to save my money and buy the stick on convertors - which I did. Worked okay I presume as I never got pulled over by the police or flashed at by other motorists. There again, I never drove at night!!

Steve
Steve Gyles

Wipac quadoptics are in the Moss (UK) catalogue at GBP 38.95
malcolm asquith

Ian

Did I misinterperate your question? Is it a left hand drive car for driving on the right side of the road, or just left hand drive as we do over here in the UK and Ireland?

Either way, the supplier information is the same, just forget my anecdote about France!

Regards

Steve
Steve Gyles

Steve,

It's actually my right hand drive car that will be going to France for the Summer.

Thanks for the info. I also got an e-mail from Little British Car Company...

"Hi Ian,

Here is the bulb info we have. Any of these will work for you.

Headlamps are the standard 7" for the sealed beam (Semi- Sealed or Tripod Bulbs also Available)

Halogen 12v 35/60w 7" $18.00 (pair) 171-100H-2 Standard Sealed Beam Headlamp - Pair (Two) Lamps
Halogen 12v 55/65w 7" $ 30.00 (pair) 171-200H-2 Extra Bright/Life Sealed Beam Headlamp - Pair (Two) Lamps

171-HL101 7" Semi Sealed Conversion Headlamps w/12v 55/60w Halogen P43t bulbs Cost is $45 per pair

Other Halogen bulbs we carry and Stop/Tail great safety feature as well as turn and instrument bulbs.

Here is my basic LBC bulb uses you can pick and choose: There are other bulbs available for other applications as well such as side lights. All prices and ordering are available on our website at www.LBCarCo.com.

Turn Signals either 35w or 50w
12v 35w Ba15s $18.00 170-800H Large Single (also replaces bulb 170-300)
12v 50w Ba15s $18.00 170-850H Large Single
12v 35/15w Ba15d (MGA1500) $12.00 170-700H Large Dual Filament (1157 style)

Tail lamp
12v50/15 Bay15d $12.00 170-750H Large Dual

Fog/Driving
12v 55w P22s/BPF $26.00 170-510H Fog/Driving

Instrument 10w for Speedo and Tach and 5w for the smaller instruments
12v 3w Screw Base $12.00 171-003H Instrument/Gauge Bulb Late MGB with Green filter 1977 -1980
12v 5w Screw Base $12.00 171-000H Instrument/Gauge Bulb/Map (for small instruments or large that have two bulbs)
12v 10w Screw Base $12.00 171-010H Instrument/Gauge Bulb/Map (for large instruments that have only one bulb)

Front Parking, and License lamps
12v 5w Ba9s $12.00 170-100H Small Single
12v 10w Ba9s $12.00 170-110H Small Single parking lamps (also good for License Light)


Best Regards,

Little British Car Co. / Vintage Motors, LTD.
http://www.LBCarCo.com"

Regards,

Ian
Ian Pearl

Ian

So what you really meant was that you wanted the lights for a right hand drive!

I am going to Le Mans in June. Will you be there?

Regards

Steve
Steve Gyles

Steve,

Almost. What I really want if left hand drive lights for a right hand drive car. Don't really know what the difference is, I guess they just throw the light to the left.

Ian Pearl

It depends on which headlight set you have. I think that Tripods have a centre dip pattern.
Dan Smithers

Ian

I think I know what you mean? My interpretation is that you want lights for driving in France. If so, they should dip to the right, with full beam straight ahead or where ever you adjust them to point.

Steve
Steve Gyles

Ian; The most simple thing that you could do would be to wait until you get on the continent and then go to any automotive store and you should be able to purchase off the shelf headlights. any place in Belgium or Germany will have the white lights and I presume that the yellow ones are available in France.They will be a direct plug in.
Sandy Sanders
Hudson Florida
conrad sanders

Sandy,
The France and twenty four other country constitute the Europe community with white headlights everywhere.
Best regards.
michel

I did this conversion years ago as my car came with me to Switzerland from the UK. You cannot just replace the bulbs, you have to replace the headlamp itself, as it is the LENS that is different between LHD and RHD. The bulbs themselves are (as far as I am aware) standard to both.

Once you have installed the new headlamps, they need to be aligned too.

The headlamps are not as freely available on the mainland as you would expect, as there are now very few cars that use round headlamps.

Try http://www.s-v-c.co.uk/ as I know that they have what you need
dominic clancy

Michel;
Je vous remerci infiniment; Thank you for the info. When I lived in France 1958-1963 the French headlight requirement was for Yellow lights. I was in the Montmedy-Meuse region.I was not aware that it had changed to white.
Sandy Sanders
conrad sanders

This thread was discussed between 13/01/2005 and 14/01/2005

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