I have had enough...after failing to get my bulb out I resorted to punching the car headlight unit as hard as I can for 20 seconds breaking the light and cutting myhand open in multiple places...thankyou vauxhall... absolute wankers!
@@verzeda Not that I know of mate but IMO everyone has something these days you can't have a bad day without being depressed you can't have a overwhelming experience without having anxiety and you can't get overly angry without having autism.
I have got bulbs in and out of cars in similar tight spaces in other cars. What makes it really hard to do on this car is that the force required to remove and replace the bulb in its seat is quite a lot. So you don't really know if you're doing it right or not. If you haven't dont it before it will seem like you're not supposed to pull this hard and something is securely bolted down preventing the bulb from coming out. with the headlight removed you still need to press the bulb in with the flathead scree driver around the sides to seat it in. If you make a mistake with it. You need plliers to ppull it ou.t The force required to pull out the bulb will break the electrical contacts in the bulb - I put it in wonky, then pulled it out and put it back in straight - then the bulb didn't work. I was really stumped. Then I realised that pull the bulb out with a plier literally bend the metal contacts and probably ripes apart the internal wiring as well. There is also a headlight levelling mechanism very close to the bulb. You can twist it and remove it. It feel liks it's not doing anything there. But you can easily unseat it while you're trying to get the bulb off and just ruin your bulb levelling function. I recommend just doing the bumper removal method. Put in good make OSRAM bulbs, not fancy high brightness stuff. Put in the bulbs that will last the longest for the least headache. I used to use osram nightbreaker and other high brightness bulbs and they pop after 1-2 years. The basic bulbs will last a lot longer.
Honestly you don't even need to take off the fuse box lid or remove air filter for the other side. You can take the metal catch off and then the plastic cover without removing anything, the driver side is easy enough to take out the bulb, the passenger side has less room and is a bit more fiddly, but you can change both bulbs without removing any parts at all apart from the metal clips and the light covers. It's a bit more fiddly getting them back on but can be done. Did them both myself today. Didn't have to remove any parts at all, opened the bonnet, took metal clips and covers off, changed bulbs then fiddled for about 10 minutes getting the covers back on lol
Absolutely no need to remove any headlamps. Just simply remove the fuse box cover and screen wash filler neck then rotate the metal clip. Remove the plastic cover and reach in with left hand and pull the bulb/connecter out. Disconnect the bulb and replace. 10 min job.
The bulb connects to the holder which is on a wire several inches long so no issues regardless of hand size. If you’re trying to push the bulb into the rear light assembly without it being connected to the wired connector then that’s where you are going wrong.
Can’t get the back cover on the light back on then I dropped my sockets down the engine piss wet through and then fell over on the grass not a good day for me
Not that it was needed at all , but how the fk did you manage to feed a tiny piece of wire through a tiny hole on the bulb terminal prong as good as blindfolded ?? Mine just fell out as soon as I touched it .
More and more terrible designs in cars the last couple of decades. Looks like they employ monkeys in their design departments. Also in this particular case it's less time consuming to remove the unit. Also try changing a horn in a Toyota hahahaha. Have to dismantle half the front end. Welcome to the era of efficient tin can design.
It is on an Opel Corsa but it's passenger side on a Vauxhall Corsa like the one in the video. A Vauxhall Corsa is a rebadged right hand drive Opel Corsa
Whoever designed this bulb should be in prison
@@uniauther13It’s fucking impossible
@@uniauther13 I gave up. I’ll just drive with 1 headlight untill I get stopped lol
*shot
Agreed 💯💯💯
idk what tf the manufacturers were thinking
I have had enough...after failing to get my bulb out I resorted to punching the car headlight unit as hard as I can for 20 seconds breaking the light and cutting myhand open in multiple places...thankyou vauxhall... absolute wankers!
Quick question - do you have autism? Because I've reacted like that to extreme stress before. Sounds tough, hope you got it sorted in the end
@@verzeda Not that I know of mate but IMO everyone has something these days you can't have a bad day without being depressed you can't have a overwhelming experience without having anxiety and you can't get overly angry without having autism.
cheers for making this video, it made it really easy for me
Excellent mate just worked for me thanks
I have got bulbs in and out of cars in similar tight spaces in other cars.
What makes it really hard to do on this car is that the force required to remove and replace the bulb in its seat is quite a lot. So you don't really know if you're doing it right or not. If you haven't dont it before it will seem like you're not supposed to pull this hard and something is securely bolted down preventing the bulb from coming out.
with the headlight removed you still need to press the bulb in with the flathead scree driver around the sides to seat it in.
If you make a mistake with it. You need plliers to ppull it ou.t The force required to pull out the bulb will break the electrical contacts in the bulb - I put it in wonky, then pulled it out and put it back in straight - then the bulb didn't work. I was really stumped. Then I realised that pull the bulb out with a plier literally bend the metal contacts and probably ripes apart the internal wiring as well.
There is also a headlight levelling mechanism very close to the bulb. You can twist it and remove it. It feel liks it's not doing anything there. But you can easily unseat it while you're trying to get the bulb off and just ruin your bulb levelling function.
I recommend just doing the bumper removal method. Put in good make OSRAM bulbs, not fancy high brightness stuff. Put in the bulbs that will last the longest for the least headache. I used to use osram nightbreaker and other high brightness bulbs and they pop after 1-2 years. The basic bulbs will last a lot longer.
Honestly you don't even need to take off the fuse box lid or remove air filter for the other side. You can take the metal catch off and then the plastic cover without removing anything, the driver side is easy enough to take out the bulb, the passenger side has less room and is a bit more fiddly, but you can change both bulbs without removing any parts at all apart from the metal clips and the light covers. It's a bit more fiddly getting them back on but can be done. Did them both myself today. Didn't have to remove any parts at all, opened the bonnet, took metal clips and covers off, changed bulbs then fiddled for about 10 minutes getting the covers back on lol
You must have hands the size of a 3 year old, aint no way I was getting my hand in there.
Was thinking the same @@garethswaffs
Chers m8 I fixed mine thanks for the help
Never knew the filler cap come off
Almost impossible to get that bulb out ,bad design
Absolutely no need to remove any headlamps. Just simply remove the fuse box cover and screen wash filler neck then rotate the metal clip. Remove the plastic cover and reach in with left hand and pull the bulb/connecter out. Disconnect the bulb and replace. 10 min job.
It's not taking the old one out that's the problem. You have to have Hobbit sized hands to be able to clip the bloody thing in. Terrible design
The bulb connects to the holder which is on a wire several inches long so no issues regardless of hand size. If you’re trying to push the bulb into the rear light assembly without it being connected to the wired connector then that’s where you are going wrong.
I have a much bigger arm. I can't even reach as far as you. I'll stick to the demolition method, it doesn't take much longer.
Can’t get the back cover on the light back on then I dropped my sockets down the engine piss wet through and then fell over on the grass not a good day for me
If you've got heathen huge handies like mine, it's near on ces't impossiblè lol
I lost patience trying to do it this way with my fat hands 😡 ended up taking the light out..what a stupid design
I just spent 5 mins looking at the comments and then noticed the video had finished 🙄 best replay the video i guess 🤦🏼♂️
Check the video closely he has had that cluster out he as not seated the wing back properly
What a terrible design, Vauxhall are making things as difficult as possible.
Great way unlike who thoe remove everything
The worst engineered access to a fo**g bulb
Not that it was needed at all , but how the fk did you manage to feed a tiny piece of wire through a tiny hole on the bulb terminal prong as good as blindfolded ??
Mine just fell out as soon as I touched it .
This a good audio description next time don’t even bother with a video 👍🏽
ruclips.net/video/-RN_vC4Z3Cg/видео.html here is how you change it from the wheel arch. without removing headlight
Catastrophe...for make this self :( You need Children Fingers :(
More and more terrible designs in cars the last couple of decades. Looks like they employ monkeys in their design departments. Also in this particular case it's less time consuming to remove the unit. Also try changing a horn in a Toyota hahahaha. Have to dismantle half the front end. Welcome to the era of efficient tin can design.
Koleś nie zamknął klapy od lampy !
Spring clip was broken at the start so could not click cover back on correctly :(
Będzie mokro.
This is driver side
Not for the UK, it isn't :)
It is on an Opel Corsa but it's passenger side on a Vauxhall Corsa like the one in the video. A Vauxhall Corsa is a rebadged right hand drive Opel Corsa