Side Light Surround

PostPost by: Over Steer » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:45 am

I was just puting my side lights on yesterday and i noticed that they do not have a rubber surround. Should they? The fit looks a bit crude without it.
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PostPost by: carrierdave » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:20 am

If you men between the lens and the holder then yes there should be one.
I think they were made out of some sort of open cell sponge gasketing - mine had totally dried out and I had to cut new ones out of rubber.

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PostPost by: Over Steer » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:23 am

no i mean between the body and the light unit, ill check for the foam later it's probably missing too
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PostPost by: carrierdave » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:25 pm

As far as I am aware there is no gasket between the metal lamp fitting and the body work.
Mine are screwed directly to the can with nothing between them.

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PostPost by: GHill » Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:23 pm

carrierdave wrote:I had to cut new ones out of rubber.

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Hi Dave,

Mine have also dried out - can you recommend a type of rubber to be used as replacement?

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PostPost by: jono » Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:35 pm

Gareth,

Assuming we are talking of a Plus 2, I concluded the same as you when re building mine - the side lights looked a bit wrong with a big gap around them. I purchased some O ring cord (8mm I think) and super glued to the rear flange of the lights. It fills the gap nicely and looks much more finished.

for the lense gaskets I had some self adhesive foam strip around 6mm wide which I ran around the inside of the lamp unit - the lense compresses it nicely and it provides a good seal.

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