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Old 01-22-2012, 08:27 PM
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Ok so yesterday I took my headlights apart and opened them up to fix the mounting brackets, clean and refinish the lenses, well I noticed my passenger side headlight is a euro spec headlight and my driver is a U.S. spec I know this because the pass side has a lever you can use to switch it from left to right hand drive and it has a clear lenses and the cut off is super Sharp compared to the driver one, it also has a euro bulb for the indicator and the driver ones a typical American snap in blinker bulb. Question is. Why would I have a euro one and one U.S. spec headlight? I've looked at other jags and they all have US headlights and j can tell is because US spec has the horizontal line going thru the projector lenses and euro is a smooth clear lens
 
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:11 PM
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Your headlamp was replaced at some point with the euro lamp. Was your car used in Europe? A lot of Americans there, I had my car in Germany and used euro parts when I could.

 
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:17 PM
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honestly i wouldnt have the slightest clue, it doesnt say anything on the Autocheck report about being registered overseas anywhere or being in an accident, i inspected all the body panels when i had the bumper off and looked at the frame and it doesnt looked to be touched ever, and the headlights both had the same amount of sun damage and weather wear on them in the same spots, so i would assume that headlight has been on the car since new?
 
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Old 01-23-2012, 07:21 AM
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It probably was a factory goof, one of those Monday or Friday builds?
 
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Old 01-23-2012, 04:16 PM
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thats one hell of a goof then.. haha i wish the other one was a Euro headlight as well. the cut off in the projector is razor sharp and super clean with tons of color on the cut off. will be great for when i put in my Xenons
 
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probably the previous owner bought a replacement from ebay and did not notice the difference
 
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