morette headlights

[chris]

Hi i am after some morette headlights for ren 5 must be good condition thanks

chris

[Flight666]

A set on E.bay Chris 321042643380

[chris]

Thanks mate i am guna bid on them tonite thanks again

[Ian S]

You should ask him if he has the plastic strips that the indicator springs hitch on to. Missing from those photos. Normally fitted to the bottom rear of the lamp assembly.

I have Morrettes I'm not using and one of those is missing.

You can also see in the photo that some of the reflective coating has come off the inside of the lamps. Mine have a bit also.

[chris]

Thanks i an i didnt notice the lamps and i didnt know about the indicator thing either thanks you could of just saved me 150 pounds

[Carlos]

Just a bit more on morrets
The indicator stalk was attacted to headlight panel
And there is very minor wear to reflector part
Will now mention in add well spotted but there again being
Your getting xennon packs as well still a good deal
Loom as well
Ive seen lights like these sell for about same price worse
Condition
Thanks carlos

[chris]

Pm for u

[Numptysnumnuts]

Why not contact them directly they still make them for a price.

[chris]

There 300 quid i was just being tight lol

[Ian S]

Why not contact them directly they still make them for a price.

I need a replacement rear plastic for mine. Who would I contact?

[Goobie]

I need a replacement rear plastic for mine. Who would I contact?

I think I read some where the other day that prima racing still sell theses? Maybe try them for parts or a contact for part Ian? Worth a shot.

[chris]

Sorry ian i didnt see your post till now yes contact prima raceing there selling them now

[Flight666]

And some more 160942926440

[Jonny5]

And some more 160942926440

Best condition of any ive seen for a while

[Ian S]

Do you see now that black plastic strip on the rear of each that's missing from the other set for sale here? They are the bars for hitching the indicators springs onto.

Thanks all for suggesting Prima. They will be a re-seller and probably have no idea about supplying parts and just give a load of double talking hot air as in the past.

They used to come to Britain via somewhere in Wales I think. The contact info were possibly on the old RTOC site.

[Ian S]

I did make a few wiring looms for these a few years ago. Think I still have one to copy from if anyone wants one for a small fee. Same layout as the 5GTT OE Morettes, copied from a new set.

[chris]

Cheers for posting that up jonny i just bought them and if i need any wireing looms ian i will let you know

[Numptysnumnuts]

If you go to the Morette website there is a contact page on there and you can ask them for all the details.

I have a PDF of all the parts including loom the only difference being is that the new Morette twin set use a different lamp and the guy never went into detail on if it was any different to the old wiring.

[chris]

Cheers pal is there much involved in removeing the inside lights and replaceing with air vents

[Ian S]

Cheers pal is there much involved in removeing the inside lights and replaceing with air vents

That just bypasses your radiators and reduces your cooling.

Unless you've fabricated a sealed air intake box over the wing behind the headlight where the header tank was and feed air to that through the left inner lamp hole.

I think it's easy to do though.

[chris]

No i havent got a sealed box for air intake so its not really worth doin then

[Ian S]

If you drive on country lanes wouldn't you be better having the extra light?

That's why I bought Morettes.

[chris]

Yes thats another point worth thinking about where i live is very rural i think i will leave them be and use them as there ment to be used thanks for advise mate

[Goobie]

No i havent got a sealed box for air intake so its not really worth doin then

Its easily done, not much to it. It doesn't really need to be up to F1 standards. Just cut a steel/alloy panel and screw it to a couple of L brackets, job done. Even without, your still increase fresh air flow into the engine bay and mainly to the air filter section regardless.

[Goobie]

Here you go, pictures borrowed from "w35ty" build thread, hope he doesn't mind.

[chris]

Cheers goobie that does look really good

[Ian S]

your still increase fresh air flow into the engine bay

Which is a bad thing to do. All the air should be going through the heat exchangers unless there's a specific cool air feed to an enclosed engine air intake, as was the original Renault duct and filter canister.

Bypassing the heat exchangers defeats their cooling ability which is why Renault and others put all that cowling there to duct all the incoming air to the correct places. They spend a lot of money and time to get these aspects right, then people come along and throw it all away and can't understand why their engine is hot, especially as it's then got all that cool air going over it.

The 5GTT cup racers injected expanding foam to fill every gap at the front so no air leaked into the engine bay and all of it went through the intercooler or rad or engine air intake duct.

[Ian S]

THE NEW UK MORETTE DEALER, Rapid Ford

Morette UK distributor is now a company called e-styling and rapidford.co.uk

Their eBay shop

DO NOT SEND ANY MONEY HERE YOU WON'T GET THE GOODS OR REFUND: The ex UK Morette vendor parts pdf

Part 11 would be what I need to make a usable or saleable pair of lamps.

DON'T BUY FROM THIS SITE. Fully new ones ONCE UPON A TIME for £270 inc vat. DON'T BUY FROM THIS SITE.


The new head office Morette site located in Belgium
Not much working here

[Goobie]

Which is a bad thing to do. All the air should be going through the heat exchangers unless there's a specific cool air feed to an enclosed engine air intake, as was the original Renault duct and filter canister.

My bad valid and fair point Ian

Chris, you best get chopping up some materials like in the above picture's then to make it functional, looks pretty straight forward todo.

[Numptysnumnuts]

Send this guy a mail. He is the one I have been dealing with

Harold O'Connor <harold@morette.com>

From Me


Harold

I have been speaking on the R5 forum and there seems a lot of interest still on these Morette Twin Lights. It would seem old habits die hard with us older ones. Can I just confirm that you are still able to get sets for the Renault 5 and do they plug into the existing loom or is there a bit of additional wiring needed which I would assume you would supply with the kits.

From Harold

Hi Russel

Yes we still produce them but in diamond optics

Have a look on our web

I ll dot it at 295.00 + 18.00 carriage gbp

[Ian S]

I've also been onto them but the UK company:

Hi Ian,

It is £49.00 for the Support Plate
£15.50 for the Relay
£25.00 for the wirings.

All prices include VAT but exclude postage. Postage is £15.00 as parts will be coming from the Morette factory (which is in Belgium). The owner of Morette is French but the factory moved over to Belgium when they reopened a few years back.

Natalie
Rapid Ford Ltd



Hi Natalie,

Renault 5,part 11 SUPPORT PLATE RIGHT INCL. SCREWS, Ref: 8 810 112

Also I'd be interested in the price of:

6 RELAY Ref: 9 760 060
7 ELECTRICAL WIRINGS Ref: 8 800 070

She said the parts are the same from the same tooling, just that the lamps are not now Cibie.

I asked here if Rapid Ford offer a club discount scheme. She said no they don't. Just on bulk buy orders.

[Numptysnumnuts]

This Harold guy is based in Glamorgan. Well at least that's what his pro-forma invoice says.

[Ian S]

As he's with morette.com that suggests he's in some way with the Belgian company.

Perhaps he answers their 'contact us' page submissions for the UK region.

And arranges some sales.

Are you buying? Perhaps you could add the rear piece for mine then post it on to me saving me most of the postage cost? If I decide to splash out £51 or whatever it'll be. That seems like too much to me at the moment.