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Subject:Re: headlight alignment parts, headlight replacement - RON SALMON, please read!
From:Don in North Carolina
Date:Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:40:34 -0400

On 9/19/06, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> So, I faced my fears and took Matilda in for her safety inspection.  Which
> she failed, but not for the reasons I expected.  (She doesn't need emissions
> for another year - that challenge will be tackled later!)
>
<SNIP tale of woe>
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Joy
>
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> Joy Hecht
>
> now living in a real house in northern Virginia
>
> and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
>
> now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years
>
> lugging Joy and her stuff around...
>
>
>
> For musings about life and the vanadventures:
>
> http://www.joyhecht.net
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Joy,

There are three fastening points for each headlight.  Two are
adjustable, one is fixed.  They consist of a metal screw with a
plastic piece at each end.  The plastic gets brittle with age and self
destructs.

The headlight from Ron is only the glass piece, no bulb, no adjusters.

So - I have a set of headlights, with recent all new adjusters.  No
cracks in the bulbs.  They are already aligned, and are both the low
and high beams.  These are the bulbs in Sylvia right now, I have some
e-code headlights I'm going to put in.  Send me your address, I'll
pack 'em up and send them - but hey, you have to pay the postage, I'm
not letting you get off scott free!

Or you can get the e-codes, but those are $300 (inner and outer
headlights, already mounted)...but the stock lights are cheaper, if
not as bright - like me!  If you come down here, I'll even help you
install them...

--
Don in Reidsville, NC
1986 Kawasaki Concours - 4 Sale
1988 Vanagon GL (Sylvia) - 4 Sale
1999 Kawasaki Concours
2001 Subaru Outback (H-6)
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Adam Savage

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