Bulb Change - Embarassing Question!

Giblets · Post by **Giblets** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:33 pm

Hi all,

Can't believe I am asking for advice on a bulb change, but as usual nothing on these cars is as simple as you'd hope!

Rear drivers side tail light.
Bought bulbs from Hellfrauds.

Open side hatch in boot and subwoofer from DSP system is taking up most of the space there and making it damn near impossible to get to bulb holder which doesn't want to come out by hand anyway!

I really don't want to have to start taking the car apart to do this with all the cabling in there.

Are these bulb holders supposed to twist out as the manual says as all of mine seem locked in good and tight and I don't want to break anything by forcing it.

Please help! Cheers all.

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:39 pm

Beauty of the system is that there are no wires attached to the lights. You can take the whole light panel out and change the bulb before clipping the whole panel back in.

Just push, twist and then pull them out ...

Giblets · Post by **Giblets** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:09 pm

Thanks but I wouldn't call it a beautiful system if I can't access it without disconnecting half of my stereo kit first!

How much of a push and twist is normally needed?

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:25 pm

Not a lot of effort required.

Never removed any of my stereo to get to it? The panel is easily accessible in my car.

Sanj · Post by **Sanj** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:52 pm

He's got DSP sub...

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:04 pm

Ah ...

phill · Post by **phill** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:08 pm

You need a hand like Jeremy Beadle but it can be done without taking out the DSP sub, you may have to wriggle the holder about but it should twist out, when you get it out put some Vaseline on the holder and the contacts.

Phill

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Giblets · Post by **Giblets** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:43 pm

[quote=""phill""]You need a hand like Jeremy Beadle but it can be done without taking out the DSP sub, you may have to wriggle the holder about but it should twist out, when you get it out put some Vaseline on the holder and the contacts.

Phill

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Thanks, unfortunately my hands are like shovels with sausages attached.

I will try again with a little lube!

X5Sport · Post by **X5Sport** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:49 pm

This might help..............it's a 'How To' and opens a pdf directly......

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... _Q&cad=rja

Giblets · Post by **Giblets** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:50 pm

[quote=""X5Sport""]This might help..............it's a 'How To' and opens a pdf directly......

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... _Q&cad=rja[/quote]

Very useful article thanks!

Now to teach my 4 year old to use a wrench........

cognac · Post by **cognac** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:01 pm

[quote=""X5Sport""]This might help..............it's a 'How To' and opens a pdf directly......

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... _Q&cad=rja[/quote]

I had the entire offside rear lamp assembly replaced last week due to to the problems addressed in the attached 'How To'

Needless to say I should posted that I was having a problem before getting it replaced...Idiot

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