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Magnet on a string or chop up a wire coat hanger to make a hooking tool to fish them out.
Feel for you.
Headlight bulbs are proof the engineers hate the mechanics.
I had to do one recently where the last idiot who had been in there had fitted the spring clip the wrong way around. 30 mins of trying to contort it out, then another hour trying to get it back in the way ot came out before I tried fitting it the right way round. Last guy must have had fingers like Jimmy Hendrix to get that thing in like that.
Feel for you.
Headlight bulbs are proof the engineers hate the mechanics.
I had to do one recently where the last idiot who had been in there had fitted the spring clip the wrong way around. 30 mins of trying to contort it out, then another hour trying to get it back in the way ot came out before I tried fitting it the right way round. Last guy must have had fingers like Jimmy Hendrix to get that thing in like that.
gamefreaks said:
Magnet on a string or chop up a wire coat hanger to make a hooking tool to fish them out.
Feel for you.
Headlight bulbs are proof the engineers hate the mechanics.
I had to do one recently where the last idiot who had been in there had fitted the spring clip the wrong way around. 30 mins of trying to contort it out, then another hour trying to get it back in the way ot came out before I tried fitting it the right way round. Last guy must have had fingers like Jimmy Hendrix to get that thing in like that.
Lol, yeah I must admit they do seem to like to make these jobs a lot harder than they should be! Feel for you.
Headlight bulbs are proof the engineers hate the mechanics.
I had to do one recently where the last idiot who had been in there had fitted the spring clip the wrong way around. 30 mins of trying to contort it out, then another hour trying to get it back in the way ot came out before I tried fitting it the right way round. Last guy must have had fingers like Jimmy Hendrix to get that thing in like that.
Bluejmc2005 said:
Good info there, these bulbs are leds though so should be ok
The Canbus on these Astras is very sensitive to LEDs, more so on the 5 door for some reason (this topic comes up all the time on the Facebook owners groups). You'll get a bulb out warning every time, if you can live with it!cknotty said:
The Canbus on these Astras is very sensitive to LEDs, more so on the 5 door for some reason (this topic comes up all the time on the Facebook owners groups). You'll get a bulb out warning every time, if you can live with it!
Thanks for this, I'll get some halogen ones insteadI've got one of these. Invaluable in this sort of situation
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