For 100 bucks it can be replaced every 5 years. Anyway glass will chipped either Depo or MB OEM, in the end all glass made in China.
It's like expensive road bikes vs none brand ones, appropriately they are all made in China.
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Originally Posted by Bengoshi2000
Loathe as I am to say only buy hella/bosch/oem headlights, I'm going to do it anyway.
I've got a set of euro projector depo's on my 2002 Golf TDI (purchased when the stock internal headlight wiring harnesses shed the entirety of their insulation). The bulb sockets of the depo's are cheap plastic... almost like a milk jug and nearly as soft. The internal wire harnesses were of marginal quality. The bulb connectors are thin and made of a brittle (think styrene) type plastic. The headlight mounting tabs were thin and two of them split when I hand tightened the bolts. The rear covers were not an exact fit and required modification.
In sum, too much damn work to get them up to par.
I've been lurking around eBay looking for a pair of euro's for my w124. I saw all of the "wow that's a great price" offerings from Latvia and other former Soviet block countries. As Brave Sir Robin opined in the quest for the Grail... RUN AWAY!
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