Replacement LED Headlight advice

[oedipus]

Hi,
got a cracked headlight lens on my A3 (LED) and just got a quote from my Audi dealer for replacement:
Headlight - £1241.57
Labour(2hrs) - £285.60
Total - £1527.17

which is a lot. Has anyone had a similar experience and can recommend a breakers where I can get the part and then have a garage fit it (or would advise against this) or recommend getting it done and claiming on insurance.
Thoughts/advice welcome

 

[Forbzeeee]

With it costing that much I'd consider going through insurance.

 

[oedipus]

I'm inclining that way. Does anyone know if the other headlight options would have been significantly cheaper to replace? I would have thought twice about speccing them had I been aware of this.

 

[Snake Pliskin]

Xenons are a £ grand each so does not surprise me that the fancier LED ones are £1250 - surprised they are not more tbh.

Could you claim a cracked lens on insurance ?

If you can, it may be the way to go though agreed.

 

[Rob2k68]

Wow ! that's pretty steep sorry to hear this.

Good point though to worn others should the price gap have been larger it may be an option when speccing as you suggest. I take it that the lens itself is not serviceable being clipped on rather than glued ? Would go check on mine but lunch is about to finish.

 

[Kimmy.E]

Wow that's a lot of money. Do you know how it cracked?
The lens on mine feels like plastic, so I wouldn't think it would crack very easily, well at least I hope it won't crack easily at that price!!

 

[Kugaman1]

Ouch!!

If you dont want to have to claim on insurance, Ebay or any breakers is maybe worth a go?

I saw an 8V offside LED light sell on ebay last week for under £100 !!!

 

[Pulp84]

I have fitted ventureshield 3M film on mine to try and prevent this sort of thing from happening.

Insurance should cover that but if a stone cracked it I would say there is the potential to kick off at Audi and ask for the bill to be subsidised as unit should withstand a stone chip IMO. Worth a try...

 

[h5djr]

Xenons are a £ grand each so does not surprise me that the fancier LED ones are £1250 - surprised they are not more tbh.

Could you claim a cracked lens on insurance ?

If you can, it may be the way to go though agreed.

The difference between the actual headlight units is much greater for the LED units. I am assuming the £1000 you are talking about was for the complete headlight including the control gear.
I have just looked up the prices on ETKA for just the lens units and they are:
LED headlight - £1100 + vat = £1320
Xenon cornering - £460 + vat = £552
Xenon - £380 + vat = £456
Halogen - £195 + vat = £234.

 

[0B1001001]

Ouch - I'm driving everywhere backwards