Crombers
29th September 2008, 03:23 PM
:hand:Last weekend on a night time M8 dash it came to my attention that the N/S front headlight was offering a fine pool of light right in front of the car. Nice to see lots of nearby tarmac but of feck all use when you wanna see where it is you are going when there are no streetlamps in assistance.
At a safe pit stop it bacame apparent that the headlamp leveller (the one that pops down & back up again in a cheeky kinda 'hello' manner when you switch on the dipped beam), was not working N/S front.
After consultation with the Head of Operations - NMS Pit Crew, I was told that the headlamp is a sealed unit & you cannot replace the levelling motor, BUGGER :frown:, & £££ to replace :eek:, cheers BMW.
I spoke to Mr Noble yersterday, & he kindly offered to check his fleet of race machines to see if a swop would be possible, good man :thumbs up:. I also checked ebay but not one mention was made on the units for sale that the levelling motor was working. Finally I logged onto 247 salvage/spares.com as per Mr Dryden's advice & logged a request for prices for N/S front units.
This morning I popped into MINI2 to see what info they had on the matter. As much as I'm not a fan of MINI2 forums (to big) it has a search engine that covers the globe & much information can be gleaned from it as I did do when the power steering pump gave up the goose a few months back.
The best information I got was this :
If you have halogen headlamps fitted, you can sort the problem by opening the bonnet, switching your dip beam lights on, you need another person to operate the level switch (0, 1 & 2, near the ingntion barrel) and slaming the bonnet shut at the same time, (not to hard) , this will jolt the motors as the adjuster sticks, you should find them to be okay then, i know its a bit extreme but it does work okay
Alternatively :
however a good whack (obviously not too hard ) on the lamp while twiddling the switch did the trick
.
This would you believe came from a BMW mechanic who uses/advises on MINI2.
& guess what, I asked my stepdaugher to be, Vikki ;), to twiddle the switch in the car whilst I gave the headlight unit a couple of slaps with the dipped lights on & the bonnet up.................& IT FLIPPIN WELL WORKS :D :thumbs up: :hand:
It may well be that the adjuster sticks again but a wee slap or thud on the bonnet could well just do the trick.
Just thought I'd share ;)
At a safe pit stop it bacame apparent that the headlamp leveller (the one that pops down & back up again in a cheeky kinda 'hello' manner when you switch on the dipped beam), was not working N/S front.
After consultation with the Head of Operations - NMS Pit Crew, I was told that the headlamp is a sealed unit & you cannot replace the levelling motor, BUGGER :frown:, & £££ to replace :eek:, cheers BMW.
I spoke to Mr Noble yersterday, & he kindly offered to check his fleet of race machines to see if a swop would be possible, good man :thumbs up:. I also checked ebay but not one mention was made on the units for sale that the levelling motor was working. Finally I logged onto 247 salvage/spares.com as per Mr Dryden's advice & logged a request for prices for N/S front units.
This morning I popped into MINI2 to see what info they had on the matter. As much as I'm not a fan of MINI2 forums (to big) it has a search engine that covers the globe & much information can be gleaned from it as I did do when the power steering pump gave up the goose a few months back.
The best information I got was this :
If you have halogen headlamps fitted, you can sort the problem by opening the bonnet, switching your dip beam lights on, you need another person to operate the level switch (0, 1 & 2, near the ingntion barrel) and slaming the bonnet shut at the same time, (not to hard) , this will jolt the motors as the adjuster sticks, you should find them to be okay then, i know its a bit extreme but it does work okay
Alternatively :
however a good whack (obviously not too hard ) on the lamp while twiddling the switch did the trick
.
This would you believe came from a BMW mechanic who uses/advises on MINI2.
& guess what, I asked my stepdaugher to be, Vikki ;), to twiddle the switch in the car whilst I gave the headlight unit a couple of slaps with the dipped lights on & the bonnet up.................& IT FLIPPIN WELL WORKS :D :thumbs up: :hand:
It may well be that the adjuster sticks again but a wee slap or thud on the bonnet could well just do the trick.
Just thought I'd share ;)