TeamZombie
15-11-2007, 07:08 PM
So at 4.15pm when I got in from work tonight, I thought I'd quickly change the sidelight that I noticed was out yesterday.
"Shall I check on the forums to see if there's an easy way to get at the bulbs?" I thought. "Nah, I'll just wing it..."
So 5pm comes around and I've managed to bust the clip off the back of the main bulb trying to get the damn rubber seal off without removing the whole headlight surround :oops:
So I quickly check on the forum and find that it's a simple job to get the headlight unit out. But is it simple when you're trying to do it in pitch-black, with no-one to hold a torch, plugs on the back of the unit that have never been removed so they appear to be welded on with age, and freezing cold hands? No, not so simple.
Anyway, as I start to wiggle around the back of the unit, the bloody sidelight comes on! Turns out it was just a dodgy connector! /Grrr
So instead of just checking all the connectors like I should have done in the first place, I've spent the past hour farting about taking the whole unit out, fixing the main bulb clip and putting it all back together, in the dark and freezing cold. /duh
I guess I could've given up and sorted it at the weekend, but that would've meant driving my Metro to work :thumbsdow
A word of advice to anyone going anywhere near the headlights: do it the easy way, take off the radiator grill and remove the whole unit. Preferably in daylight. And when it's warm.
Gav
"Shall I check on the forums to see if there's an easy way to get at the bulbs?" I thought. "Nah, I'll just wing it..."
So 5pm comes around and I've managed to bust the clip off the back of the main bulb trying to get the damn rubber seal off without removing the whole headlight surround :oops:
So I quickly check on the forum and find that it's a simple job to get the headlight unit out. But is it simple when you're trying to do it in pitch-black, with no-one to hold a torch, plugs on the back of the unit that have never been removed so they appear to be welded on with age, and freezing cold hands? No, not so simple.
Anyway, as I start to wiggle around the back of the unit, the bloody sidelight comes on! Turns out it was just a dodgy connector! /Grrr
So instead of just checking all the connectors like I should have done in the first place, I've spent the past hour farting about taking the whole unit out, fixing the main bulb clip and putting it all back together, in the dark and freezing cold. /duh
I guess I could've given up and sorted it at the weekend, but that would've meant driving my Metro to work :thumbsdow
A word of advice to anyone going anywhere near the headlights: do it the easy way, take off the radiator grill and remove the whole unit. Preferably in daylight. And when it's warm.
Gav