smiley headlight not smiling

[lamby]

small problem with my headlight as it don,t light up at the smiley bit at the bottom?i have swapped bulbs and still same but my dipped beam warning light comes on the check panel although its on?have changed check panel but still same

[Brianmoooore]

??????????? The 'smiley' bit is just a hole in the fake reflector to allow some light from the bulb to light the road immediately in front of the car, without passing through the lens.

[lamby]

then the hole must be blocked,i will take it out and clean it then see if that helps,any ideas why the dipped beam failure comes on though?

[Rav335uk]

The only other thing I can think of is that at some point, maybe the rear reflector has been swapped to a Bulleye one with a "Smilie" front.
The Bulleye had a cut off half way up, where as the Smilie doesn't.

Pic shows Bulleye (Top with the bottom half blocked) and Smilie (Bottom with nothing on the bottom half) difference.

[Grrrmachine]

Just to confirm, this is what they should look like when working:

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/index.php/Lights

[lamby]

thanks for that one side is fine so i,ll take it out when it stops raining,scrub that,when it slows down and take a look