Looking For A Lancer Rear Light

dingy · January 26, 2013

Guys my right side rear light is busted......from where can i get one

miniace · January 27, 2013

Anthupita Motors Panchikawatte.

MINIACE

LJG · January 27, 2013

Try SR Light House, #140, Panchikawatte Road, Colombo 10. Tel: 4877944, 077 5135154. I bought the LHS tail light for my Lancer C12 for 3,500

dingy · January 27, 2013

mine is the flatlight model...will they have it??

Edited January 29, 2013 by dingy

LJG · January 27, 2013

I got my Tube Light Lancer RHS tail light made by one of the pavement chaps @ Panchikawatte. He cut the appropriate coloured plastic to size, heated it and bent it to shape. The job was fairly OK.

dingy · January 29, 2013

On 1/27/2013 at 7:59 PM, LJG said:
I got my Tube Light Lancer RHS tail light made by one of the pavement chaps @ Panchikawatte. He cut the appropriate coloured plastic to size, heated it and bent it to shape. The job was fairly OK.

how much did he charge??

Edited January 29, 2013 by dingy

Davy · January 29, 2013

On 1/27/2013 at 7:59 PM, LJG said:
I got my Tube Light Lancer RHS tail light made by one of the pavement chaps @ Panchikawatte. He cut the appropriate coloured plastic to size, heated it and bent it to shape. The job was fairly OK.

Interesting... Care to share a photo please?

LJG · January 29, 2013

My taillight only the amber coloured piece broke and it cost me Rs. 650, including the cost of labour for the man who got it done at Panchikawatte. If you go personally you may be able to get it cheaper. I have seen a complete tail light of a Honda Civic being made by one of these chaps. My camera battery is down. Once it is charged I will upload a pic.

dingy · January 29, 2013

mine the whole thng is gone

LJG · January 30, 2013

Sending pics of my tail light. The amber piece on the RHS taillight was fabricated.

LJG · January 30, 2013

To be more specific about my earlier mail with photos of the tail light, the RHS tail light is the pic on left

The Don · January 30, 2013

Ironically the fabrication looks better than the original!

Davy · January 30, 2013

LJG said:
Sending pics of my tail light. The amber piece on the RHS taillight was fabricated.
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:blink: Actually stunned by how perfectly it has been done. The Don is absolutely right!

Thanks for sharing the pics mate.

Schiffer · January 30, 2013

wait. did you mixed up left and right or my eyes deceiving me..

or do you mean the right hand side picture O.o

Edited January 30, 2013 by Schiffer

LJG · January 30, 2013

The picture on the left is the fabricated one

Schiffer · January 30, 2013

Damn. Hats off to the fabricator. best i have ever seen.

i ones fabricated my old lancers tail lamp and that job was hopeless.

harshansenadhir · January 30, 2013

Local fabricated ones are better than after market Taiwan light covers as they don't fade under the sun. (Taiwan ones fade faster)

There was a fellow in Piliyandala, dole- kanatta road ( off 255 route ) named Ashley and he did a similar superb job on my tube light lancer back in 2001 or so. Don't know whether he's still there or not. Will give it shot to see whether he's still there.

All in all fabrication is not bad as long as you get it done through the right place.

Davy · January 30, 2013

On 1/30/2013 at 2:10 PM, harshansenadhir said:
Local fabricated ones are better than after market Taiwan light covers as they don't fade under the sun. (Taiwan ones fade faster)

I have to agree. The tail lights that were fitted onto my Lancer A72 wagon were also locally made ones. They were pretty clean, and held up for a long time (about 8 years or so) without starting to fade.

Jaliya48 · January 31, 2013

The RHS amber lens on my original assembly was also fabricated, but the amber lens used was of a poor quality and it faded within a year. I lacquered the aftermarket lenses to delay UV fading so let's hope it works! Of course, if you wet-sand the lens and polish it at the first sign of fading it won't look as 'white' as it usually does.

LJG · February 1, 2013

You can also try E-bay for the tail light. Sometime back I saw these being available in US. A good number of these cars were sold in the US as Chrysler and Plymouth Colt, Lancer, etc. Those cars were fitted with a 1600 cc engine.

harshansenadhir · February 2, 2013

You can also try E-bay for the tail light. Sometime back I saw these being available in US. A good number of these cars were sold in the US as Chrysler and Plymouth Colt, Lancer, etc. Those cars were fitted with a 1600 cc engine.</blockquote>

That's a slightly different variant than the tubelight model. Its similar to the I light and L light models in SL.