Healamp Reflectors
Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:05 am
I'm currently sorting through some of my spare parts, headlamps at the moment.
I have quite a few spare ones, most of which have very poor corroded/tarnished reflectors. I wondered if anyone knows of any sources of new reflectors. This is not urgent (for me anyway) as my cars have decent reflectors at the moment an I have one good set of spares.
Would it even be possible to get old ones re-silvered if we got enough together?
This is something which may be important in the next few years as it's a potential M.O.T. failure. I've noticed that even my 'always garaged' 1983 18,000 mile GLS reflectors are 'less shiny' than the spare set I recently got off a 89 G reg which had stood outside for a while. I've also noticed while dismantling the lights that much of the damage is caused by the central metal thing around the bulb, which corrodes and drops nasty white stuff on the reflector. I expect the heat and contaminants from the bulb with moisture does the rest of the damage.
I have a couple of sets of lights that I could make available for people if I could get the reflectors!
I have quite a few spare ones, most of which have very poor corroded/tarnished reflectors. I wondered if anyone knows of any sources of new reflectors. This is not urgent (for me anyway) as my cars have decent reflectors at the moment an I have one good set of spares.
Would it even be possible to get old ones re-silvered if we got enough together?
This is something which may be important in the next few years as it's a potential M.O.T. failure. I've noticed that even my 'always garaged' 1983 18,000 mile GLS reflectors are 'less shiny' than the spare set I recently got off a 89 G reg which had stood outside for a while. I've also noticed while dismantling the lights that much of the damage is caused by the central metal thing around the bulb, which corrodes and drops nasty white stuff on the reflector. I expect the heat and contaminants from the bulb with moisture does the rest of the damage.
I have a couple of sets of lights that I could make available for people if I could get the reflectors!