Hello all 
Was wondering if anyone here who is a bit more knowledgable on lighting could give me some advice on what to do with my puntos headlight and whether what I was planning on doing to remedy it would be correct.
It started in september when my car failed its Mot for fogged up headlamps, there was a set of aftermarket ones on ebay that I brought for £70 cause I thought it might be a nice plug and play swap and I'd end up with a pair of nice shiny headlights. After fitting them it was apparent the passenger side one was having issues as the sidelight bulb wouldn't come on despite the fuse being fine. In haste to get it back to the Mot place I ran a piggyback to it from the drivers side and all has been fine since.
However the other day I noticed my dipped beam bulb (h7) was out (same headlight) I pulled the connector off to have a look see if the bulb was blown and once I got the connector off I noticed the plastic on the plug had melted slightly and the red wire had burned away where it meets the plug (bulb not blown)
So with this I was wondering whether it would be adviseable to have a go cutting and crimping a new plug onto it (the ones the sell at halfords) and changin the fuse which likely blew or whether I should go about seeing a breaker and getting an oem headlight cause this aftermarket one may have some gremlins?
Also if I was to change the plug it occured to me that the h7 plugs people are selling have one black wire and one red wire whereas the one on this headlight has two black wires. Should I just crimp both black wires down to one going to the plug?
Thankyou very much for reading my post and any experiences or advice on the matter would be highly appreciated. Sorry if it seems abit rambly also, this is my first post but I've been using this forum for a while to find help on other things and its always been helpful. Can update with pictures later but its dark outside currently.
Many thanks
Bill
Was wondering if anyone here who is a bit more knowledgable on lighting could give me some advice on what to do with my puntos headlight and whether what I was planning on doing to remedy it would be correct.
It started in september when my car failed its Mot for fogged up headlamps, there was a set of aftermarket ones on ebay that I brought for £70 cause I thought it might be a nice plug and play swap and I'd end up with a pair of nice shiny headlights. After fitting them it was apparent the passenger side one was having issues as the sidelight bulb wouldn't come on despite the fuse being fine. In haste to get it back to the Mot place I ran a piggyback to it from the drivers side and all has been fine since.
However the other day I noticed my dipped beam bulb (h7) was out (same headlight) I pulled the connector off to have a look see if the bulb was blown and once I got the connector off I noticed the plastic on the plug had melted slightly and the red wire had burned away where it meets the plug (bulb not blown)
So with this I was wondering whether it would be adviseable to have a go cutting and crimping a new plug onto it (the ones the sell at halfords) and changin the fuse which likely blew or whether I should go about seeing a breaker and getting an oem headlight cause this aftermarket one may have some gremlins?
Also if I was to change the plug it occured to me that the h7 plugs people are selling have one black wire and one red wire whereas the one on this headlight has two black wires. Should I just crimp both black wires down to one going to the plug?
Thankyou very much for reading my post and any experiences or advice on the matter would be highly appreciated. Sorry if it seems abit rambly also, this is my first post but I've been using this forum for a while to find help on other things and its always been helpful. Can update with pictures later but its dark outside currently.
Many thanks
Bill
