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From: Halmyre on 21 Feb 2010 16:46 In article <hlrob3$427$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, dmarsden(a)nospam.com says... > > On 21/02/2010 10:11, Derek C wrote: > > Bearing in mind that my car is of French origin, where it is a legal > > requirement to carry a spare bulb set, the difficulty of changing > > headlamp bulbs is a dangerous nonsense. Even if I had the bulbs, I > > would have no chance of fitting them myself. It might just be possible > > if you have a very thin double jointed wrists and fingers like ET! > > > > Derek C > > It's not just French cars - Italian too. > > It took me nearly three hours to replace a headlamp bulb on my diesel Fiat. > > When the other side failed (about a year later) I took it to a garage. > It took them just over an hour. > > Impossible to replace at the roadside. > > Another Dave Alfa 156 - I think it was designed by aliens with tentacles. Or Italian hillbillies with an extra knuckle in each finger. -- Halmyre
From: Adrian on 21 Feb 2010 17:18 "Mr Pounder" <MrPounder(a)RationalThought.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > grasp the sealed beam unit firmly, pull out, disconnect plug, remove > bulb Umm, if it was a "sealed beam", it didn't have a bulb to remove. Mind you, Citroen have never used sealed beams outside the US market (where they were a legal requirement).
From: Peter Parry on 21 Feb 2010 17:23 On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:46:37 -0000, Halmyre <nospam(a)this.address> wrote: > >Alfa 156 - I think it was designed by aliens with tentacles. Or Italian >hillbillies with an extra knuckle in each finger. Alfa have never really understood electricity. However they do have a very active rehabilitation programmer for ex-Mafioso. The (ex) Don is sat on a chair with a 12 bore loaded with wire. As each car goes past with its bonnet up he fires the wire into the bonnet. Where it lands someone else joins something else to it (usually at random). A few hours later the car passes another family member and the process is repeated through the boot.
From: NM on 21 Feb 2010 20:06 On 21 Feb, 22:18, Adrian <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "Mr Pounder" <MrPoun...(a)RationalThought.com> gurgled happily, sounding > much like they were saying: > > > grasp the sealed beam unit firmly, pull out, disconnect plug, remove > > bulb > > Umm, if it was a "sealed beam", it didn't have a bulb to remove. Mind > you, Citroen have never used sealed beams outside the US market (where > they were a legal requirement). You are of course correct, It was me, I used the term sealed beam in place of the more correct reflector unit, I shall slap myself on the wrists immediately.
From: FrengaX on 25 Feb 2010 07:47
On Feb 21, 12:43 pm, "thomas" <to0oommy...(a)retardedloony.com> wrote: > Its one of the benefits of EU rule - we will soon have to carry a set of > replacement bulbs(like most of mainland europe) which we will not be able > to fit at the roadside - no logic to it > > "Derek C" <del.copel...(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message > > news:8c3eb14d-243d-443a-a607-0d49734c7620(a)u20g2000yqu.googlegroups.com... > > > > >I recently had a dipped headlight bulb fail on my Citroen C5. > > Unfortunately within 24 hours, and before I could replace it, the > > second dipped headlight failed. As it was at night and my car has no > > foglights, I had no choice but to call out the AA. > > > The AA man said that with modern wiring systems, it is quite common > > for a second headlight bulb to fail shortly after the first due to an > > electrical surge. > > > As the headlight units are hard up against the battery on one side and > > the hydraulic reservoir and the pump for the power steering on the > > other side, the AA man ended up taking most of the front of the car > > apart just to replace two headlamp bulbs. This took about 2 hours on a > > freezing cold and very dark night! He said that many modern cars, > > including VW and Fords are equally bad in this respect. > > > Bearing in mind that my car is of French origin, where it is a legal > > requirement to carry a spare bulb set, the difficulty of changing > > headlamp bulbs is a dangerous nonsense. Even if I had the bulbs, I > > would have no chance of fitting them myself. It might just be possible > > if you have a very thin double jointed wrists and fingers like ET! > > > In older cars, changing a bulb was about a two minute job. As cars > > with blown headlamps are a safety issue, surely cars should be > > designed so that it is easy to fit replacement bulbs! There was a newspaper (I think) article ages ago, showing all the things you needed if you want to drive right across Europe. As each country is different, the complete list was huge. Anyway, in one country, I think it may be Hungary, you have to carry a spare fan belt. OK for a 1950's vintage standard Eastern European car, for example, but I should think the proportion of people who would be able to fit a new fan belt to their car nowadays would be very minimal indeed. |