When I bought my 78 240D it had the clear lights and I wanted yellow so
I bought as pair from the deal at around $40 each - they are Bosch and
came with bulbs -- definitely not sealed beam...
LarryT
78 240D
91 300D
On 4/24/2014 2:14 PM, Fmiser wrote:
Curt Raymond wrote:
Anybody else want to weigh in on this? I completely sure none
of my 123 cars has had sealed beam lights, theres a bulb held
in by a little wire clippy.
I have a few I can check - but as I have never messed with them I
presumed they were sealed beam. They mount and adjust like a
sealed beam...
So I just took my Yankee screwdriver out at pulled one apart. The
one I picked had broken glass, but after opening it up, it clearly
uses an H3 lamp. So the reflector and lens seem to be bonded
together, but the actual light source (lamp) is a replaceable H3
and thus is _not_ a sealed beam.
I'm too lazy to check the others.
I'll take a picture when I get home
tonight. My '78 240D has clear "driving lights" my '83 240D had
yellow. My wagon had clear but I converted to yellow because I
like the look of them. I was going to convert the '78 but
Dwight talked me out of it. His CD has one of the yellow ones
from my '83 240D.
I think the lenses and reflectors on both the clear and yellow are
for fog lights. At least all the ones I have here are. I have
thought about converting them to driving lights.
Thats what "sealed beam" means right? Where the bulb is sealed
into the lens, like the headlight...
Yes. "Sealed beam" means there is no glass envelope around just
the filament (like the H3 lamp has). The entire reflector and lens
are the envelope which has oxygen removed so the filament won't
burn.
Gerry wrote:
I wonder if there are both sealed beam and bulb in housing lamps
by different manufacturers that fit the standard 123
headlight/fog light assembly?
I guess that's possible.
-- Philip
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