Does anybody make an aftermarket headlight assembly. Mine are broke. Been shot with pellet gun or something. Or has anybody made there own headlight assembly using whole different setup? Thanks for any help I cant afford to spend 800 on replacement.

 

I was going to be clever and say "Have you looked on ebay?" but then I saw how much 2nd hand S-type lights are on eBay in the USA. They are under £50 over here.

If it's only the lenses, maybe you could get them posted from the UK, assuming a RHD lens is the same.

e.g.

Jaguar S-Type 1999-2007 RIGHT HEADLIGHT REPLACEMENT LENSE ref...4747l | eBay

 

Great advice Keith . . . sometimes international shipping is a killer, especially to us in Oz, but OTOH, some of your UK booksellers have woken up to the almost universal Asian trend of "post free" to anywhere. Yours is a timely reminder that with a worldwide www shopfront, we should check all options. Well done.

Cheers,

Ken

 

I bought 2 on eBay for less than half of what new ones would cost; they'd been refurbished with new adjusters by the seller. Then I had an auto body shop install them for $100. That was the cheapest way to go at the time.

To my knowledge there are no aftermarket assemblies out there; only new or used.

You'll need to specify model year and halogen or HID when shopping for replacements, as they're different.

 

What is HID? In a specified year, mine being 2006, would both HID and hologen have been an option?

 

See below. Yes.

 

Below I only see advertising.

 

CT,
You asked two questions; John, in his inimitable fashion answered both, succinctly and in order. He was referring you to the link in his signature where you would find this gem:
HID high intensity discharge (a type of light)
then he answered your second, "Yes."

 

I see my sig lines below...

 

John,
FWIW, if one is reading the thread on the mobile site using Google Chrome, the signatures don't show up.....and currently, there is a "Pantene" advert at the bottom.....

 

I am I am reading this on my phone and do not see any signatures.

 

OMG... which idiot has broken it like that???? Whoever it is, just fix it.

 

Correct, on our mobile phones here (stateside) signatures do not appear in any part of the thread. Only the main text is shown.

 

How useless is that? We've been berating new members to add vehicle details to their sigs for years, only to learn now that they don't appear on mobile devices.

 

Worst feature - ever!

 

Adding to Rick's finding of truth, I just noticed yesterday that if you post from your mobile device (from which you can't see any signatures) it does not append your signature to your post so it can't be seen later on a proper computer, either!

 

I am in a similar predicament . My headlights are working fine , however the Plastic lenses have some cracking from the inside and are getting dull. I want to just replace the lenses . I have looked all over eBay and for some reason I don't see them anywhere . Is what I'm trying to do no generally done? How in the world do I just replace the plastic lenses and where would I buy them ?

 

May well not be available so aim to buy the full unit or take yours off and try to refurbish them.

 

Scroll down to post #17 where Igotthemoveslikejaguar has posted pics of his HID headlights. Note the circular disc-shaped projector lens inside the low beam assembly. That projector lens is peculiar to the HID headlights; halogens don't have it. So if your low beams look like those in the pic with the projector lens in the assembly, then you've got HIDs. If your low beams don't have that projector lens, then you've got halogens.

 

for now I took some lexan and cut a lense for the lights. It a Jimiriggin joke. LOL. Anyway my car is 2004 Jaguar S-type with halogen bulbs. Ive found some for X-type but nothing reasonable for the S-type. Im hitting local junkyards this coming week. Thanks for any help.