It is a facelift w124. Single lens and gasket. > > 124 820 8959 is the housing. Lenses look similar to bosch that are on the > car, but a few more fresnel elements etc. > > I guess the facelift cars would have US spec and euro spec lenses. But are > the housings different? I assumed the housings were all the same for > facelift cars on both sides of the ocean. > > Thanks for any input, > Karl > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 11:54 AM Curley McLain via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: > >> are these for USA lights or yuro lights? I thought you bought the >> whole yuro unit, but your description sounds like you got just the lens >> for the USA headlight. >> >> If USA, you should buy the lens and reflector together, or buy the whole >> yuro headlight units. >> >> Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote on 12/22/18 1:27 PM: >> >> OK what's the consensus on buying new headlight housings vs. just the >> >> lenses and using used housings/reflectors? >> > >> > A few days ago a package shows up with new Hella lenses from Belarus or >> > something like that (not sure - I tried the Latvian guys but never got >> the >> > money wired, so I reordered from another former Russian republic). So >> I go >> > out today to finally replace my old lenses only to discover the tabs >> > holding the lens in place are half gone, 2/4 broken off. Drat! >> > >> > Then I take a look at the reflectors and they are pretty shiny on the >> > inside but the little bucket around the bulb is coated in white fluff >> that >> > is probably full of mercury or asbestos or some other toxic stuff on >> both >> > the inside and the outside of the bucket, and the reflector itself >> seems to >> > have lost its shine on the back side (front side seems OK but is very >> dusty >> > with the same white fluff). And I don't want to mess up the reflective >> > surface trying to remove the white fluffy dust stuff, though I would do >> it >> > with some reading I suppose. >> > >> > So it has me thinking I should have ordered the entire lights, as I >> would >> > have new housing tabs and reflectors as well as new lenses and turn >> signals! >> > >> > What is the collective wisdom on this? Clean the old ones and use >> aircraft >> > wire to hold the lenses on, buy used housings on eBay and risk tab >> failure, >> > or buy new from bananazon or eBay? >> > >> > My bulbs are also bad so I may pick up a set of cheapo LEDs and see how >> > they look. The OSRAMs have a little separate filament with a shade so it >> > only shines upward; this is inside the bulb. I am suspicious that the >> LED >> > guys have not fully sorted their bulbs to the same degree, but I will >> check. >> > >> > Karl >> > _______________________________________ >> > http://www.okiebenz.com >> > >> > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> > >> > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com
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