Headlight bulb (low beam)

**SteveH** · 12th November 2006, 14:48

my bulb has gone , took it out , well it fell out really , how the heck do you put that metal clip thingy back on and does the lug on the base point up or down
thanks

Steve

**SteveH** · 12th November 2006, 15:05

panic over , sussed it , bulb now fitted

**VauxVeteran** · 13th November 2006, 03:33

it's really rather simple isn't it

£2.88 +vat on the t card, I bought 4 last week cos I blew one at 7pm last sunday, and the other one went at 11pm, so I had to come off the road

so it's now a case of prepared, shouldn't need another for 11 mths now, thats how long a Vx bulb normally lasts me.

**solorider** · 13th November 2006, 08:15

Originally Posted by VauxVeteran

it's really rather simple isn't it

£2.88 +vat on the t card, I bought 4 last week cos I blew one at 7pm last sunday, and the other one went at 11pm, so I had to come off the road

so it's now a case of prepared, shouldn't need another for 11 mths now, thats how long a Vx bulb normally lasts me.

i have never had a vauxhall headlamp bulb blow.in a astra g x2 cars,vectra b x2 cars or my currant car a vectra c.my first vectra b had knackered headlamps and bulbs and i fitted all new bulbs and had no bulbs blowin the time i had it and i had it a year and half,neither did any bulbs blow when my cousin and uncle had the car

**Gsi3.2** · 13th November 2006, 08:44

you where lucky then solo... it's not that un-common to be swapping bulbs into vectra lamp units over here...sidelight bulbs partciularly..and you can bet if one headlamp buld goes, the other is very close behind it.. i always wap them in pairs now, and advise folks to have the same done..

the one i'm not looking forward to replacing is the Xenon, imagine dropping that one