The replacement headlight assembly came in today.  It was a pretty straight forward job of getting it swapped out.  The paint was, as I had figured, pretty raggedy on the replacement.

After removing the bezel it was covered pretty good in a thin coat of dried mud so I am fairly certain it is from a car that ran afoul of the ground at some point.  Likely out of a totaled donor, which would explain the messed up paint all around the edges as well.  One of the mounting points for the cover was broken as well causing the door to have a little give on one side.  The wiring harness had also been cut and spiced at some point but I don’t know what the reasoning behind it was and it was done a little sloppily as I could see bare copper on one of the wires.  Taped it up some and will have to come back at a later date to fix that if it causes any issues.

Unfortunately while in there, I found some secondary damage to the upper bumper support.  The fiberglass had broken clean through.  This won’t be a high priority fix  as it isn’t really affecting anything and I don’t want to spend more money on this at the moment.

Once it was all bolted up, it was able to open and close without an issue, but there is a bit of a gap issue that I will need to get sorted out for it to look proper again.  It’s about a quarter of an inch too far over on one side.  The lamps that came in it are terrible and are probably stock units.  I’ll have to go pick up some replacements.  Now I have to decide if it is worth contacting the ebay seller about the flawed wiring and broken door support or just let it go.