Hella headlamps

You can also get 3M adhesive transparent protectors which can be stuck to the glass.

Useful if you want to protect those expensive ellipsoids!

Not trying to be too negative here, but I recently had a fruitless attempt to fix a cracked headlight for my 1989 highline.  The inners/fullbeam are easy to locate GSF, Ebay etc but the outers/driving lights came up negative. 

I had tried the dealer (and I used RealOEM as a reference) and they said they no longer made them, GSF said they did and supplied what looked right but the mounting hole spacing was out (I think an E30 unit was supplied).  As I had sourced from old stock one outer I was determined to replace them all to get new glass across the front I ended up chopping the good lens from the E30 and bonding it on to the old frame after removing the cracked glass (not the easiest job!).

Anyway, let me know how you get on - I might be able to help with RealOEM as I (think) I exhasted every avenue and the info I used should still be around somewhere - Good Luck.

AndyS wrote: ....The later Highlines have plastic bowls as opposed to earlier metal ones. As such I'm not sure they're interchangeable....

They're not. If you want to use the older headlights, you'd have to re-wire to use 3-pin connectors rather than the "Highline" 2-pin.

Evening all, my name is Chris and I'm new to the forum. I've picked up some really good tips from observing the forum and was wondering if anyone has any leads on where i may find some Hella headlamps for a 1989 Highline? I need a set for the passenger side in particular. Does anyone know if the headlamps from a 1983 635 would fit? Doubt it myself but i've heard of one that is being broken up and was thinking of getting in contact re. the headlamps.

Cheers