Removing rear light E92 M3?
Removing rear light E92 M3?
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gilford

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715 posts

222 months

Tuesday 27th April 2010
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I gave my car a good clean over the weekend only to find that there is a spider stuck in the rear light frown

It is in the reflector section (the bit on the left hand side of the boot when open). I did look quickly, but could not see an easy way to get this off? This may sound a bit anal, but it is a pretty big spider, which is now dead the poor thing, and is VERY noticeable and VERY annoying wink

fen7on

97 posts

241 months

Tuesday 27th April 2010
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Thinking outside the box - why don't you attach a small hose to vacuum cleaner, take bulb out & try sucking spider out through the hole. If that fails, look up a rear light on Ebay, this will show you where it is attached, if it's like the 6 series you'll have to take the boot apart - quite easy though. Again, if it's like the 6, careful when putting it back in, if you overtighten your panel gaps will be all wrong.

gilford

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715 posts

222 months

Wednesday 28th April 2010
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fen7on said:
Thinking outside the box - why don't you attach a small hose to vacuum cleaner, take bulb out & try sucking spider out through the hole. If that fails, look up a rear light on Ebay, this will show you where it is attached, if it's like the 6 series you'll have to take the boot apart - quite easy though. Again, if it's like the 6, careful when putting it back in, if you overtighten your panel gaps will be all wrong.
Thanks for that mate, but sadly there seem to be no bulbs in the section on the boot, its just a reflector panel from what I can see frown


MPowerMark

712 posts

230 months

Wednesday 28th April 2010
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erm, why not just leave it and let it die? eventually its corpse will rot away. Job done.

Seems alittle overkill for alittle spider.

shunt

1,043 posts

249 months

Wednesday 28th April 2010
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Can you get a bird in there to catch the spider.....................

E30M3SE

8,486 posts

220 months

Wednesday 28th April 2010
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It is held in by the fixing bow, Part # 8, hope the diagram helps.

gilford

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715 posts

222 months

Wednesday 28th April 2010
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MPowerMark said:
erm, why not just leave it and let it die? eventually its corpse will rot away. Job done.

Seems alittle overkill for alittle spider.
it's actually a pretty damn big spider, an it will take years to rot away, don't you have a garage........!?

gilford

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715 posts

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Wednesday 28th April 2010
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E30M3SE said:
It is held in by the fixing bow, Part # 8, hope the diagram helps.
perfect mate, exactly what I was looking for, thanks for that! smile