Freelander 1 Facelift headlights on pre-facelift Freelander

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Did a search but couldn't find any posts.
Seems like a good idea to me.
Has anyone done this? Any tips?
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Actually none of those posts are about fitting face-lift headlights on a pre-facelift bumper like the photo, which is what I'm looking for.
I guess I'll need to work it out and post the results!
 
As the headlamp isn't the correct shape for the bumper, or rather the bumper isn't shaped for the light, then it'll never look right. The picture you posted shows what looks like the bottom of the main beam lamp cut off, which isn't ever going to look good.
Why not fit the facelift bumper too, then it'll all match ok.
 
Nodge68 said:
As the headlamp isn't the correct shape for the bumper, or rather the bumper isn't shaped for the light, then it'll never look right. The picture you posted shows what looks like the bottom of the main beam lamp cut off, which isn't ever going to look good.
Why not fit the facelift bumper too, then it'll all match ok.
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Yeah you could be right about the main beam light, but I want to keep the majority of the original bumper.
Difficult to tell without seeing the thing in the flesh I guess.
Might be something I'd regret doing.
 
bukko said:
Yeah you could be right about the main beam light, but I want to keep the majority of the original bumper.
Difficult to tell without seeing the thing in the flesh I guess.
Might be something I'd regret doing.
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The only way to do it, would be remolding the bumper to fit the light. It's only made of some form of polythene, so it should be possible to reform the bumper around the light. This would be better than cutting the light off at the bottom, which isn't going to look good, or be water tight, which means the lights would fill with water and dirt very quickly.
 
Nodge68 said:
The only way to do it, would be remolding the bumper to fit the light. It's only made of some form of polythene, so it should be possible to reform the bumper around the light. This would be better than cutting the light off at the bottom, which isn't going to look good, or be water tight, which means the lights would fill with water and dirt very quickly.
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I believe that is what the owner of the car in the pic has done. It looks like the light unit sits in the bumper.
I think what I'll do is see if I can find a cheap guinea-pig bumper and a new shape headlight to play around with and maybe build a prototype.
I might even add some headlight washers while I'm at it (that might need a V6 bumper though).
 
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