Re: Seicento Sporting Headlight problem
The adjuster on Cento headlamps is nothing more than a threaded rod with ball on the end that sits inside a plastic cup which is made up of 8 or so fingers (imagine making a cup shape with your hand)
What happens is when you fit a new bulb or remove the headlamp for some reason when you reattach the electrical connection onto the rear of the bulb the force sometimes needed to get it in place pushes the reflector assembly out of its plastic cup breaking the fingers which normally end up sitting inside the lens. Or you try and pull the reflector assembly back and break the fingers.
Anyway all you need to do to fix it is make sure the bottom of the cup section sits against the metal ball, so if you use a small spring hocked around the reflector (there are lots of little holes that can be utilised) and either simply hock it around the hole at back of the unit and slip the rubber weather shield around it, or neater is to drill a small hole to the side of the large hole and thread the spring through it so it a permanent feature of the light. the spring provides the force to hold the reflector unit in place, and the adjuster rod works fine as all it is doing is move forward or backward the reflector unit against the tension of the spring.
Our Seicento has a headlamp like this, my old Cinq had a headlamp like this as I refused to buy a whole new headlamp just because some small brittle plastic parts broke away from an otherwise perfectly usable unit.
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