I own a Fiat Bravo but i have installed the Fiat Marea Poly Elliptical Headlights, for those who dont know what that means its the headlights with the projector type lense fitted on all ELX and HLX Mareas.

What i want to know is when going abroad how do you cover the lights so that your lights dont shine the wrong way while aboard. On the Bravo lights you could buy headlight protectors that came with stickers to cover parts of the light to stop the light shining into oncoming traffic.

BUT how do you Fiat Marea drivers do it? Fiat dont do the stickers for the Marea Projector type lights. There advice was to dip the lights down. Surely there must be a genuine way to do it? Or are the projector type lenses non interfering and produce a straight forward beam rather than shine to one side.

Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers.

think customs will hit you with stickers/tape when you go into the country

I'm sure you can get refractors - even if they're not genuine Fiat ones. I saw a 2.4 HLX Weekend which still had sticky stuff on the light from where a refractor had been fitted. Car was a shed though so didn't buy it.

Hi,

I've taken my Weekend ELX to France twice now.

In short, if you buy one of the kits (from halfords?) the instructions will tell you.

For the marea you place the diverters (roughly rectangular in shape) to the right (as you stand looking at the car) of your main beam (middle bulb) in a vertical possition. This will block the part of the beam that would ordinarily light up the side of the road in the UK but will blind others when you drive on the right.

Tape would do just as good a job.

This is probably as clear as mud, but I hope it helps.

Celt said:

Hi,

I've taken my Weekend ELX to France twice now.

In short, if you buy one of the kits (from halfords?) the instructions will tell you.

For the marea you place the diverters (roughly rectangular in shape) to the right (as you stand looking at the car) of your main beam (middle bulb) in a vertical possition. This will block the part of the beam that would ordinarily light up the side of the road in the UK but will blind others when you drive on the right.

Tape would do just as good a job.

This is probably as clear as mud, but I hope it helps.

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Those kits are for lenses that have the refracting glass on them. Fiat Marea SX's and all Bravo/a models have these lights. I drove with stickers on my lights, then decided to take them off and over 3 weeks no one flashed me abroad so i left them off. BUT there must be something that Fiat have made to convert the beam, i dont want to block the light anyway and reduce light output but just bend the beam elsewhere. Otherwise poly lights are safe to use abroad.

You could always buy a set of continental marea headlights from ebay... A bit extreme maybe but you would certainly have the correct pattern.

Hi,

Back again.

My previous post above was from work so I couldn't be sure about the halford kit, however, I knew I had an unused one at home.

I've opened the packet to have a look.

The instructions for Mareas refer to the projector type lens with clear glass front.:yum:

Halfords product code 151225

hope this helps

Thanks will look into it.

When I went to France in my Marea, I just stuck a piece of tape vertically on each headlight.

If you experiment in the dark, it's pretty easy to do - an empty car park is a good place. You can see a circular area on the headlight where the beam is shining. Just stick your hand over parts of the beam and you'll see which areas you need to cover.

If I remember correctly, I covered about a third of the beam from the passenger side of the car.

Just been to Germany in me dads Stilo MW, bought the headlight stickies but didn't fit them as we were not sure where to (plain plastic lenses)... not challenged or stopped at any point over the last 10 days

I suppose that's OK if you only drive during the day. If you need to use your lights you're going to **** off a lot of other road users!

This is what happens when you drive on the WRONG side of the road. Drive on the right side as the rest of the Europe, and you'll not have this problems.

You don't need to adjust your headlamps because you won't blind anyone.

However, if you get stopped, and someone spots they are the wrongly directed you might get an on the spot fine/warning.

So just bung some masking tape on them. Honest.