Pattern headlights

Our local supplier get us Lucas units and never had any problems with them and are generally a few £££'s more than pattern and 20% less than the main dealers.

We've noticed a few different make retests come back recently with pattern lights that kick up the wrong way - somebody imported a load of cheap LHD units maybe? It was a big problem quite a few years back but looks like it may be starting over again.

Another problem we've seen (apart from the fast fits fitting the bulbs for a tenner and fitting them wrong!) is a few H4's and H7's making the pattern wrong. Again it may look like some cheap imports that aren't manufactured to the correct spec. Put a proper bulb in and all is well.

Then there once was this owner of a three year old Lada Riva (shows how long ago this was). Instead of buying a brand new replacement lens for less than a tenner after he smashed it on a gate post, he spent hours cutting a flat piece of perspex to size and scratching all the lines into the inner surface. He thought they were just lines moulded into the glass and not made up of Fresnel and prism optics. It failed a beam test  .