When I picked up my new toy a couple of weeks ago we had a wet trip home and I noticed that one headlight appeared to have condensation inside it. I didnt think much more about it until I got home and took it for a drive at night and found the drivers side headlight didnt light up, oh well, the price of buying privately thinks I, resigning myself to an astronomical bill for a new headlight. I replaced the headlight xenon bulb at a cost of about $70 on ebay (didn't fix it) and on closer inspection found that the headlight lens had been cracked where it meets the base of the headlight, the crack is still visible after repair in this picture. (yes Garrycol, I know it needs a wash)
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The lens had either been driven into something to crack it or something had been backed into achieving the same result. Judicious application of the glue pictured below resulted in a watertight repair that is barely noticeable and I left the light to dry out.
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After doing some research regarding the light and its non functioning state the interweb consensus was that the ballast had blown and would need to be replaced. In the L494 case the ballast is located on the bottom of the light housing and is a serviceable part (LR050796) with prices ranging upwards from $500.00 new or $200 repaired
AL Xenon Ballast for Range Rover Sport L494 (2013-2017), 130732946800, LR050796
Some more research prompted me to do a search on the ballast oem number which achieved much more pleasing results with a delivered price of $AU56.00 from Amazon.com. It seems that these ballasts are used in everything from Camaros to Jeep Patriots and are as common as muck in the US once you look for the correct part number
Amazon.com.au : 1 307 329 263 01 Note that you do have to search in Amazon with the spaces in the number.
I'm still waiting for the ballast to show up but this morning I had the fog lights on and when I arrived at work I flashed the headlights in the reflective glass in front of the office and both headlights lit up.
Bloody Land Rovers......
Anyway this might benefit someone and I've got a spare ballast on the way and a spare xenon bulb in the shed.
Regards,
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