Rear Light Tailgate - LED & non-LED Carriers - interchangeable?

[CaptainZag]

This may be a daft question, but my N/S rear LED light external housing/lens is damaged and I'd like to replace it at some stage.

I just wondered if the LED carrier unit could be removed and swapped onto a non-LED unit (with a good housing/lens) as these units are normally cheaper when they come up on flebay?

 

[Deaky]

They are all plastiwelded together. You can’t take them apart

 

[Pauly]

And the lenses/reflectors are arranged differently anyway so wouldn’t work

 

[CaptainZag]

Thanks @Deaky and @Pauly - it was just a thought to save a few pounds and I wasn’t sure from the various diagrams/photos.

 

[Ads_Essex]

This may be a daft question, but my N/S rear LED light external housing/lens is damaged and I'd like to replace it at some stage.

I just wondered if the LED carrier unit could be removed and swapped onto a non-LED unit (with a good housing/lens) as these units are normally cheaper when they come up on flebay?

How damaged is “damaged”?

 

[CaptainZag]

How damaged is “damaged”?

Just a cracked lens really. Not that easy to see. It’s a 2017 T6 Shuttle SE and had an MOT in the week. It passed no problem, but they said ‘slight crack in NSR light unit’ and quoted £280! I can live with the ‘slight’ crack, but if I saw one come up fairly cheap (£50+) I’d probably replace it.

 

[Ads_Essex]

I ask as I have one with a small crack (3cm?) at the bottom of the lens where it meets the body. Doesn’t let water in.

I’ll keep it as a spare unless yours is going to cause you grief and you want to buy it?

 

[CaptainZag]

it probably looks worse in the picture, but it is quite a crack propagating in 4 directions from a central impact point. Thanks for the offer of yours, but it is fine for now and I’ll potentially replace with an undamaged one at a later stage.