Missing Plastic Cap in Headlight
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To the OP - you can also purchase them from Corvette Central, Mid-America or GM Partshouse.
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I thought all of the headlight bezels for the C5 have access plugs? I know they changed the style of the plugs based on year, however the plugs are still required as I don't believe they created headlight bezels/shrouds without access holes/plugs.
To the OP - you can also purchase them from Corvette Central, Mid-America or GM Partshouse.
To the OP - you can also purchase them from Corvette Central, Mid-America or GM Partshouse.
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Before you buy a replacement take a quick look in the headlight well area with a flash light. Mine was missing on one side and that's where I found it; it either shook loose when the light was down or by good fortune landed there from the up position.
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...I also suggest that when you (re)install your new plug, duct tape it to the inside. Any serious light work I perform usually requires me to remove the entire bezel anyway.
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That's where I bought replacements when I lost a few of them.
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Headlight Bezel Caps
Went through this with my '99 FRC. Turns out there is an "early" cap and a "late" cap. The early (changeover in '99 or '00 as I recall) cap is slightly larger and snaps in place. The late cap is smaller and twists and locks in place. The early cap is NLA from GM, and GM's solution is to replace both headlight surrounds with "late" so you can use the "late" cap--which is B.S.. Eckler has reproduction early caps which solve the problem. FWIW.