172/182 Headlights?

[k00k]

I have an '05 182 Sport. I have just restriped my car using a stripe kit. All good there, but unfortunately it looks like the adhesive remover I used, Oomph, its some citrus based thing, has now clouded the edges of my headlight covers, both sides of the car. Insert multiple swear words here! So, the only way to fix it is to replace them.

I've just spoken to Renault service, and you cannot buy just the clear plastic cover, you have to buy the whole headlight unit, (minus the actually lights themselves) that the headlights/indicator sits in. Can anyone comfirm 100% that the 172 and 182 headlight units are exactly the same, only differing in colour?? If they are, I'm going to order 172 units and swap mine over to black, as I always thought the grey would have looked better if it were black.

Many thanks for any info or help.

 

[l1clio]

Hi Mate,

This guy sanded down paint with some wet & dry and polished afterwards to remove the orange peel effect on his paint. A bit extreme, but maybe you could just do the polishing bit?

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=487831

Hope you get it sorted.

 

[Dave..]

Get some 2000 grit wet & dry, and use some elbow grease.

 

[Sargara]

172/182 xenon headlights are the same apart from the inserts like you say. So yeah plug and play direct swap basically.