Awhhhh, just my luck

[ando]

Hey guys,

any ideas on how I can get this bulb out of the light unit?? Just my luck when changing a light bulb eh!!

 

[Kris]

HaHa... sorry

Looks like a nice haedlight removal job for you "young man"

 

[RobM]

Tweezers? Or one of those flexible pole things with a hook on the end? Or jack the car up until it rolls back?

 

[Phil K]

flexible rod with a magnet on the end (or a bit of gum)... sorry, but I did laugh a little bit when I saw your pic

 

[slick]

I was expecting the Sidelight popped out, like mine did, which after abit of bumping the little bulb slips down the front of the light and round the back of it to the plug bit, but that huge bugger aint going to drop under... your proberly need a magnatic telescopic thingy, you know the screwdriver set one... otherwise its bumper off time for you to get the light out....
You proberly need to remove the battery and battery tray anyway just to get clear view/access to that headlight now anyway!!

Feel for you mate, but unfortunately, if you aint got a extandable magnet, its bumper off time...

 

[Big_daddy]

try usin a coat hanger! bend it in shape like a hoop

 

[slick]

Problem with hooking it or grabbing it, the hole that the indictor slots thou is WAY to small to get your fingers into to pull it out once you drag it to the indictor hole..... so unless you have a magnet to grap it from there, i can only see it being removed, by removing the headlight and rattling the bulb out, but to do that, you need to remove the bumper to get the two bolts on the underside of the headlight that fix it in....

 

[cordobabrendy]

blob of thick glue on a stick (araldite), let it dry then itll be a little easier to get it out in one go, bulb will be scrap most likely anyway.

 

[Big_daddy]

here away! funny one,!
get a vacum hose and try sucking it out, u get my drift!

 

[slick]

blob of thick glue on a stick (araldite), let it dry then itll be a little easier to get it out in one go, bulb will be scrap most likely anyway.

Could work!

Only thing thou, have to be very careful on moving that stick, get it wrong and u got glue inside a headlight....

 

[ando]

thanks for all the advice lads

i tried the magnet thing, it didnt work cause the bulb is not the right kind of metal???

i tried the superglue but it didnt stick sufficiently enough

I tried messing around with a clothes hanger, no luck

I tried using all of them in one go but yet again had no luck... practically my whole saturday was taken up with it

i just about gave up, was having my lunch and then i taught... Hmmmm, hover.. THE HOVER!!!!

As soon as i hooked up the hover, it worked, sucked that bulb right out of there

Then my hover pipe was jammed cause the bulb got lodged in it, but that only took a few mins to clear up

YAY!

 

[Big_daddy]

should use dyson , no loss of suckion