Rear Lights

[paul.h]

Last week I needed new rear lights in a hurry for the C3 (2003 1.4 sx petrol) and being the Christmas week I was able to get them from Eurocarparts in a day. Unfortunately I could not use the Astrum ones supplied since the lens outside edge was proud of the car body but worse, on both lights the hole at the top for the fastening nut was not wide enough to use even a thin wall socket to tighten it - on the original Citroen lights a normal thicker walled 10mm socket can be used in the hole and the thin wall one has plenty of clearance. The lights appeared ok until fitting and are labelled made in Taiwan. The assistant at Eurocarparts said he would note the poor fit on their system when I returned them for a refund.

 

Other points, during this week there was a special web price a lot lower than the branch price when I phoned up, but since the branch did not have them in stock I could not 'click and collect' at the lower price. The branch price was also different to the normal web price - branch £40.74 each, web left £43.80 (special £29.94), right £49.80 (special £41.94). The lights did not include the bulb holders either despite the web saying the right one does. Considering ones from Citroen may be about £55 (to confirm) including bulb holders, the Eurocarparts ones are expensive if they could have been used. There are lower ebay prices but not being originals I am unsure how well any of these would fit and if doing mail order there are delivery times and then if a return is needed it gets complicated. S/H ones are also expensive when the postage/travel costs are included and until you have seen them you are not sure of their condition.