Apex

Thank you Linas, more sense and logic in your paragraphs than I can find anywhere else. I appreciate you taking the time to write and provide all the advice and guidance above. Swapping out the lights in full makes total sense not only for my wallet and growing unwanted bulb collection but also my sanity! I will follow your advice, once I get it back from the garage (currently in surgery for a misfire C4) I will pull the bumper and hope the main wiring loom connection is still in good order and then get replacements ordered. Thank you for being helpful, this is exactly what I needed and have posted for help in a number of forums and only you have taken the time to help. Very grateful indeed kindest regards Martin

Hi all I recently purchased this a few weeks ago, bit of a project with lots of niggling things to fix and each niggle seems a battle. I’m a life long IS200 + IS300 owner, a self taught driveway tinkler.. My latest challenge is getting these lights working correctly. On the O/S the DRL which runs along the base of the light has failed (but there are leds on the side part which still operate). On the N/S the low beam bulb has failed. From what I have found so far is these could be ‘casa’ lights, but no real idea and I can’t find anything like these on uk sites. So, I go to pull the N/S low beam bulb and there isn’t any bulb there, just a wire with a single wire connector and the metal spring clip. I buy H1 bulb and go to fit but it just fell into the low beam lense housing, I managed to fish it out after a few choice words. I then did what I should have done before and opened the O/S to check the bulb. I undid the spring clips and it came out with what looks like a H1 metal base adapter on the glass side and a C washer or a washer with a cut in it (to allow it to go over the wires) on the connector side of the bulb. The single wire is hard wired (by hand) to the bulb connection, the build only operates when secured in the housing. I have found some steel M16 washers and have an old H7 adapter which I tried to fit this N/S bulb but nothing is allowing me to get the spring clips to hold the bulb. Can anyone help me please before I pull the front bumper (which will need doing anyway for further repairs, but not MOT risk at the moment) I have 2 months left.. these are after market lights right? do I have the right low beam bulb with the H1? what/how/where do I get adapters that secure it? (Gone all through eBay and Amazon) Is the DRL board on the O/S repairable? I don’t think that would cause an MOT failure would it? sorry it’s so wordy but thank you for taking the time to read Martin