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Thanks for illustrating a different way of doing this I removed my offside lamp yesterday to see if my new LED sidelight cluster would fit. It didn't. However, I did manage to remove the headlight housing completely, removing just the 3 bolts and unclipping two harnesses. Getting it back in was, as always, a right royal pain in the neck, but nothing scratched... it was just very tricky.
The 1W SUPERLUX (ebay) sidelights are very bright to my eyes, and very white, I'm pleased with them.
I ordered a set of these yesterday, thanks to this link provided by Lorian
Does everyone else have the two really distinct light patterns from low (dipped) beam?
I found the worst one to change was the main beam behind the washer bottle neck. I also kept accidently touching the bulbs and had to keep cleaning my paw prints off them.
The pics posted in post #1 show the geography of various components (battery, washer bottle etc) to be different to my 08 model.Regardless, I believe this proves that the manufacturer always meant for bulb replacement (etc) to be done with the whole headlamp unit off the car. As mentioned previously, this is achieved by removing the 3 10mm bolts holding the units in place.Now, I know folk have said that it feels as if extracting the unit would scratch the bodywork, and I've had mine out 4 times and felt the same, but no scratches ensue. Sure, it's tough "jiggling" the units out of their housing, and getting them back in "feels" as if you'd cause damage, but I've not experienced or caused any.The pics in all the related headlamp/bulb threads show the headlamp units to be similar in mounting, so I presume they are similar in dismounting.
I replaced my high and low beam with the Phillips extreme (plus 80).
Now i'm trying to find if anyone makes a fog light globe upgrade (H27) ??? Phillips incorrectly listed the H8 - its similar to the H27 but wont fit. Anyone know of H27 upgrade ???