Rear Light fitting

Next up was fit the rear lights, i have gone for the carbon light upgrade as they look much better than the standard 'sherpa' rear lights.

now these were very interesting to fit, i started with the passenger side light, now the light position is set by the pattern on the mug guard, so it was just a case of lining up the carbon effect housing to line up nicely with the ridges and corner of the body work, a little trimming of the housing was needed to get it to sit nice and flush all the way round the body work, once happy i had found a position i set about drilling off the holes, to do this i used a little bit of guess work and some rough measuring, to obtain a datum i marked out the 2 large holes where the light units fit, and found the center of the these 2 circles, i then worked out the hole positions for fixing relative to these. i then started off by drilling the holes with a 3 mm drill, this then enabled me to see if the hole centers were in the correct position, if they were not i still had the ability to drag the hole into its correct position. the light unit was then fitted with m6 bolts and large washers, i then drilled off the large holes to allow the light units to pass through the body work, to do this was the easy bit, with a 46mm hole saw it was a case of using the light unit as a guide and drilling through the mud guard and body work,

now this light went out very easy and lined up very well, it was then when i set about fitting the drivers side unit did things sort of take a turn for the worse, first of all the light unit did not sit very nice in relation to rear body work, the gap was very large and sat 7-8 mm away from the corner, so out comes the dremel and a lot of trimming started, now the unit also pointed upwards more than the opposite side, so i started trimming the bottom section of the light to get it to sit more level, to achieve this i cut away about 5 mm off the bottom of the light unit, this also let the into to sit a lot better against the body work, once i had done this i then got out the tape measure to ensure i had it level, when i notice that this side of the body work sits nearly 40mm higher than the opposite side, not this is down to the molds of the rear arch and the location of the part where the light units sit, now i have tried my best to move the unit down but i would never be able to get it low enough for both lights to sit level.

looked a few other peoples rear pictures and have noticed that it is deffinately a mold issue as they all seem to do it, well done westfield!!