macca Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Just thought everyone would like a quick giggle at my expense.... Bought 4 of the silver capped indicator bulbs and decided to fit them today. Rear ones took me maybe 15 to 20 minutes to fit, couldn't be much simpler than it is. Front ones however, could have been alot easier than I made it. After spending 15 minutes working out if there was a way to do it without removing the front bumper and taking the headlight out, I discovered there's a small opening where you can actually reach the front indicator, but not the main headlight bulb, bonus I thought. Twisted the lamp holder out of the main housing and with a bit of fiddling I managed to get it out in the open and pull the lamp out and put my new one in, lowered it back into the unit and voila, finished. Not quite. Mum in the garden at the time says, "have you tried it?" "no" I replied. Great that your mum can tell you something you ought to do with your car that you haven't thought about doing isn't it? So anyway, flick the indicator on, and look at the side repeater on the way round and it's flashing twice as fast, front not flashing at all. Great. I unscrew the lamp holder to realise I haven't pushed the wedge all the way into the lamp holder. While trying to pull the lamp holder out gently the bulb falls out and rolls right into the bottom of the main light housing. Crap. So to cut an even longer story short, I had to remove the whole front bumper, take the light housing completely off the car and drop the bulb back through the hole it sits in adding god knows how long to what could have been a short process The irony of all this? I'm an electrician by trade and couldn't even fit a bulb Macca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Ha ha! You nugget! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Nice post bud, things are rarely as simple as they look, even to a trained person Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomoto Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I did a similar thing... I taped a small magnet on to some welding wire and fished the bulb out..a long job saved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 I considered doing this then thought of any magnetic effects it might have and thought I could have ended up causing even more damage Macca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomoto Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I considered doing this then thought of any magnetic effects it might have and thought I could have ended up causing even more damage Macca no damage the headlight is pure plastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 I considered doing this then thought of any magnetic effects it might have and thought I could have ended up causing even more damage Macca no damage the headlight is pure plastic I was worried about the bulbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomoto Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I considered doing this then thought of any magnetic effects it might have and thought I could have ended up causing even more damage Macca no damage the headlight is pure plastic I was worried about the bulbs no they are made from glass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 i remember it happening to you Tim. Good to hear you worked an easy way top get the bulb out without removing the headlight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3FIDDYZ Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Almost the same as me mate first time I changed all my bulbs... jacked up, removed wheel, removed arch cover, changed bulbs, replaced arch cover, put wheel back on, jacked down.... Only to find the Grey cap that covers the main lights on my tool kit.... jack out wheel off... Worse still I did the same on the other side!! Need to change indicator bulb again now, phillips one has only lasted 4 months... not happy, I cant indicate that much... can I... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 You can change the front indicator bulb by just lifting the bonnet and accessing it from that way. Even I did it with my cabbage hands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 You can change the front indicator bulb by just lifting the bonnet and accessing it from that way. Even I did it with my cabbage hands Me too! Next time though I'll get my niece to do it! 4 year olds hand should be great for putting in new bulbs in the space there is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIXXERUK Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 You can change the front indicator bulb by just lifting the bonnet and accessing it from that way. Even I did it with my cabbage hands I did mine that way but i did take the top bolt out of the headlight, that way you can ease that headlight up slightly to give better access Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 You can change the front indicator bulb by just lifting the bonnet and accessing it from that way. Even I did it with my cabbage hands I did mine that way but i did take the top bolt out of the headlight, that way you can ease that headlight up slightly to give better access +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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