Thread: Sealed beam lights

Originally Posted by Reads90

Is there anywhere i can get a sealed beam light for my 90 from.
Just had arguemnet with a land rover supplier as i ask for a sealed beem light and he say that he can get an after market one for $44 and when i asked if it was halagen he said yeah you have to just go and get a halegen bulb from supercheap. It was at that point i said if you can put a bulb in it then it is not sealed beam then is it . Ding wat

Also is there a reason that no defender in Aus has sealed beam lights

Ali

When mine went, I just popped along to Repco. It's a regular 7" round unit and will cost $20-$30.

M

I bought sealed beam headlights for my Rodeo after I filled the semi sealed ones up with water and the reflectors went brown.

I bought them from Autobarn. They were rectangular but they had round ones too. That was about 5 years ago though.

Sealed beam lights pretty much went out twenty years ago, but they can be found with a bit of looking. The Landrover ones are standard fitting.

John

There are two types of sealed beams, the ones you buy from supercheap etc that are like the ones in an HR Holden, simply two filaments inside a 7"glass bowl.
There are also sealed beam halogen lights which have an outer sealed unit as well as a halogen bulb which is fused to the inside of the 7"unit. I had these on a Maverick and when replaced with a standard sealed beam they were not nearly as good.
I have not seen the halogen type at any of the aftermarket retailers.
This is the beast to which I refer
Regards,
Tote

If you couldnt get a 7inch sealed beam from Repco or somewhere i would be real surprised, every old ford and holden has them, in all honest get some H7 inserts and a pair of halogen bulbs and upgrade, You may want to fit a realy if you dont already have one, doubt you would have any trouble here, last time I bought a selaed beam was about 12 bux for a Bosch unit.

went past supercrap tonight......they sell sealed beams......
round ones in 5 and 7 inch...... and they also had the square shape ones......


the round ones were $15 - $17 each.......

Surely they are the same as the standard Toyota sealed beam? You should be able to get them from just about anywhere.
I have just pulled a spare Toyota one out of our spares cupboared and it is a 178mm or 7" sealed beam Hella 12V75/50W part no : 1075
Should only be about $20ea.
Prsonally I would upgrade to QH.
Cheers
Craig

He is looking for a quartz halogen sealed beam not a tungsten-vacuum sealed beam. QH sealed beams were once made by Hella in both 7" & 5 3/4", but are now only listed in their catalogue in 5 3/4". A call to the Hella Techline 1800 061 729 may locate some old stock. I would prefer that all cars went back to round headlights. I was staggered to find the cost of a new light unit for my late Falcon was $290 at the Ford dealer. At the time one could buy a sealed beam at K-mart under $10.