Whats a fair price for two decent second hand lights?

red480gt · Post by **red480gt** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:12 pm

Whats a fair price for two decent second hand lights?

been offered some, what should i offer?

ste

red480gt · Post by **red480gt** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:31 pm

I mean rear clusters.

ste

john hotchkiss · Post by **john hotchkiss** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:37 pm

220 REALLY

i put some oil on mine today they look good as new must look for some of them didnt realise they wherer so expensive

MatBat · Post by **MatBat** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:38 pm

Yeah, they are quite pricy
Fortunately mine have been fine

red480gt · Post by **red480gt** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:44 pm

Just took a gamble and ordered some 2nd hand ones for 55pounds, look ok in pics.

fingers crossed!!

Has any body refitted some lights, did you use sealer or buy new volvo seals (if they exist)

ste

MatBat · Post by **MatBat** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:12 pm

I am guessing the lights will already havea seal, but using silicone couldn't hurt

john hotchkiss · Post by **john hotchkiss** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:15 pm

i put silicon on mine done the job a wee bit of water still gets in damm stuff cant find where its getting in

pol · Post by **pol** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:23 pm

Dont talk to me about water in the back!! Spent ages sealing the lights, but then found the boot seal was leaking, replaced that, sealed around it with sillicone, worked for a bit. Then it rained. Soaking in there again.

pol

john hotchkiss · Post by **john hotchkiss** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:30 pm

lol got the same problem i think ever 1 has

the seal makers

jamescarruthers · Post by **jamescarruthers** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 11:04 pm

volvo provide some really thick black "tape". its not really tape, more 1cm by 0.5cm thick gooey stuff. on the invoice it was priced separately to my lights.

putting them im was no prob; getting the old ones out was a bit of a sod though. be careful with positioning them (ESPECIALLY getting them in far enough). I had the driver's side in perfect then realised it was protruding so had to squeeze it very hard to get it in before everything set.

i left some of the gunk protruding slightly on the top where the boot opens so no water could collect on the top. i then roled this down with a socket set to make it smootish. doesn't look as pro as the volvo job when the boot is open ( i was really paranoid about water at the time) but otehrwise you cannot tell i put them in myself.

RESULT: CHUFFED.

Daniel480 · Post by **Daniel480** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:38 pm

DonÂ´t use silicone on a car !

I hope you will enjoy removing your clusterÂ´s again from your 480

bbf · Post by **bbf** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:03 pm

here is a trick: firs spray wd40 or something oily on metal where seal should be, than ad silicon (plain silicon is bad idea - decaying on sun) or something like that on clean light cluster where seal used to be and mount the cluster ALMOST all the way (ad some 2 mm spacer on nut) and wait till it dries (a day or so). be sure there is no rift betwen metal and silicon snake.
clouster is now removable with pretty good seal on it

remove spacers before final fitting, so the silicon will be squeezed a little.
for final touch you could use spray-grease to fill in all the small, tinny places... do not forget to do that on two holes for middle plastic, too..
the same can be done with relay-cover plastic..

bYe!