I've bought a twin optic phase 1 headlight setup, and I'm having trouble fitting the front offside headlight. As I push it back in to place, it fouls against the expansion tank on the side of the radiator. The headlight just won't fit without shifting the radiator back about an inch. Has anyone else had this issue?

The lights have gone in to a phase 1 XSi 8v, I didn't think the detail of the radiator around the expansion tank would have been much different to a gti6, but perhaps it is? Also I don't know if it is a standard radiator or an aftermarket one, it's not been replaced under my ownership but a previous owner may have put an aftermarket radiator in the car. Any thoughts?

No, I'm not sure either. I've just been having a look at it, and he radiator does look like a non genuine one, but saying that, from the pics I've been looking at, it does look the same as a genuine one, so I don't think the issue is with the dimensions of the radiator.

I noticed that the radiator pins fit in 2 holes in the plastic fan housing / assembly. I don't know how this plastic fan housing fits to the car, but it wouldn't need to move sideways very much to clear the headlights, so my next thing to investigate is how this fits to the car, and whether it can be shifted sideways by 5 mm or so.

The radiator is sitting properly in the clips unfortunately. One thing I did notice is that with the clips in place, there is a gap between the radiator and the fan shroud assembly on the near side, but it is a close fit on the off side. If I could get the gap even so it is sitting further back on the offside too, that would do it I think. I initially thought there could be something wrong because of the uneven gap, however I then did a search on here and found that's pretty normal. Oh well, perhaps I'll just stick with the old headlights for now!

Bump, can anyone clear this up for me?

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Thank you.

H7 bulbs were correct then, and those are what I fitted so it's all good!

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