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Re: Headlights . .
« Reply #45 on: 05 January 2018, 16:47:26 »

Mine are about as much use as a candle currently, so hoping they are OK at MOT (or that the new adjusters arrive so I have the confidence to fiddle). Oh, and I'd probably better polish up the lenses, again. Seems to become an annual thing once you've done it once. >:(
If you've never changed the bulbs, you'll notice a big difference when you do, particularly on those dark lanes with oncoming traffic when you suddenly realise that you can't even see if your lights are on.

The Shaguar needs new bulbs, but having a CBA moment to:
a) get to hellfrauds to buy some
b) look at how to take the bumper off to..
c) fit them

Fortunately I've got an Omega... and not my mate's Renault Megane, for example, where I foolishly volunteered to help him change the front indicator bulb recently. That's an entire evening of my life gone for good....
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Re: Headlights . .
« Reply #46 on: 05 January 2018, 18:08:09 »

Mine are about as much use as a candle currently, so hoping they are OK at MOT (or that the new adjusters arrive so I have the confidence to fiddle). Oh, and I'd probably better polish up the lenses, again. Seems to become an annual thing once you've done it once. >:(
If you've never changed the bulbs, you'll notice a big difference when you do, particularly on those dark lanes with oncoming traffic when you suddenly realise that you can't even see if your lights are on.

The Shaguar needs new bulbs, but having a CBA moment to:
a) get to hellfrauds to buy some
b) look at how to take the bumper off to..
c) fit them

Fortunately I've got an Omega... and not my mate's Renault Megane, for example, where I foolishly volunteered to help him change the front indicator bulb recently. That's an entire evening of my life gone for good....

They tease you with the access hole in the wheel arch liner. You then realise bumper still needs to come off  :)
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Re: Headlights . .
« Reply #47 on: 05 January 2018, 18:59:15 »

Mine are about as much use as a candle currently, so hoping they are OK at MOT (or that the new adjusters arrive so I have the confidence to fiddle). Oh, and I'd probably better polish up the lenses, again. Seems to become an annual thing once you've done it once. >:(
If you've never changed the bulbs, you'll notice a big difference when you do, particularly on those dark lanes with oncoming traffic when you suddenly realise that you can't even see if your lights are on.

The Shaguar needs new bulbs, but having a CBA moment to:
a) get to hellfrauds to buy some
b) look at how to take the bumper off to..
c) fit them

Fortunately I've got an Omega... and not my mate's Renault Megane, for example, where I foolishly volunteered to help him change the front indicator bulb recently. That's an entire evening of my life gone for good....

They tease you with the access hole in the wheel arch liner. You then realise bumper still needs to come off  :)

.. and then once you've removed the rest of the car and you're left with a bulb sitting on the garage floor, you realise there's nothing wrong with the bulb, it's just come loose in the shitty bulb holder they fitted. >:(
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Re: Headlights . .
« Reply #48 on: 05 January 2018, 19:49:09 »

What do you expect? They're French
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Re: Headlights . .
« Reply #49 on: 05 January 2018, 22:16:24 »

I was going to say that but i didn,t want to upset Stemo. ;)
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Re: Headlights . .
« Reply #50 on: 05 January 2018, 23:16:28 »

What do you expect? They're French
Face-lift Vectra C indicator bulbs not much better ::)
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Re: Headlights . .
« Reply #51 on: 06 January 2018, 07:42:21 »

I was going to say that but i didn,t want to upset Stemo. ;)
I wouldn’t get upset. I take our Renault to a Renault garage when/if such menial tasks need doing. Never had a bulb go yet, except for a headlight bulb which takes five minutes to change.  :P
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