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I prefer the smooth look of Spiders with covered headlights. Therefore, in preparation for a repaint, I decided to modify my ’84 Spider headlight buckets to accept the Plexiglas covers. This topic surfaces from time to time on the BB, so I thought it might be worthwhile to write an overview of what is involved.

The basic situation is that Series 3 & 4 Spiders (1983 on) have a noticeably different shape to the headlight nacelle and the readily available Carello covers do not fit. Additionally, the headlamp is mounted from the outside which requires either remounting the headlamp inside the fender or finding a suitable trim ring that fits under the cover. I opted to remount the light inside the fender because I like the look.

Step 1: Clean up the headlight opening:
Alfa added quite a bit of metal to the headlight area over the years. As you can see in the first picture, the opening is neither smooth nor round and you cannot fit the thin stainless steel trim rings until it is cleaned up. I used a Dremel and it went pretty quickly.