The price is from £6 so id imagen that was for a easy bulb. Id imagen they dont do it on some cars as has been suggested ones you have to dismantle the front end.

Halfords will change your bulbs for £6 plus. I can change a headlight on mine in about 2 minutes...some folks must pay it though.

If that's £6 for ANY car, then it's good value - some cars need their front ends dismantling just to replace a bulb !

As said, on some cars it's not a straight forward job, and needs a lot parts removing to gain access.

It s good value, the headlamp bulb on my A4 is a sod to change. Even better if it includes the price of the bulb, which I doubt.

Still prefer to do it myself though.

how many backroomers does it take to change a light bulb?

Happy days.....the first headlight bulb I ever changed was as a teenager in the 1960s,

Bang on with MADF's prediction ;)

Edited by catsdad on 04/12/2017 at 11:08

The day cannot be too far off when a police force or local council (or a "partnership" involving both) takes the initiative to set up a "Bulb awareness course" as an alternative to a fine, complete with pep talk, video, practical demonstration (bulb fitting workshop, bulb free drive round a racetrack, etc.)

When I bought my last car, before I handed over any money I asked the salesman to demonstrate changing the headlight bulb. He seemed a bit surprised but the fact he (or rather the service manager as the salesman didn't have a clue how to!) did it in less than a minute certainly helped sell the car.

Perhaps we should start a list of cars it's easy to change the bulbs on, and those it's near impossible. My first entry on the easy list is my Mk2 (Facelifted) Octavia. One thumbscrew, pull release lever and the whole lamp assembly comes out the car.

Well now you mention it, i did change the single measly reverse light on my last car for a rather bright LED, which proved to have near enough the brightness of a spot light bulb, superb it was and car too old to have any of that canbus cobblers, though you can get them canbus fiendly not as i have the foggiest if they work.

Ironically i fitted 2 new LED bulbs in the living room on Friday, one of them has just failed about 20 minutes ago. I think LED's make sense in and around your home due to obvious energy cost savings assuming you can find the right ones in warm white not operating theatre white, but if they turn out not to have a reasonable life then the energy saving isn't going to be worth the cost and back to spiral energy savers it will be, annoying having to contact the seller so soon after purchase.

My problem with LED's in cars is that they tend to make cars look a bit yoof barried, intense white lights look a bit, well you know, you'll all have seen cars retro fitted with led's in the number plate holders, protuding below the shield and showing white light to the rear, it isn't a good look, just like blue front side light bulbs...though they may have other meanings/messages from what i've been told.

And don't get me started on auction site aftermarket DRL's cable tied in place at various unlikely points in and around the grilles of cars sometimes decades too old to have ever had them from new, crass may describe the look.

Edited by gordonbennet on 04/12/2017 at 00:19

Don't mention handbooks, most of them seem useless, the family Aygo had a stop light bulb out last time it came here, not a problem i have quite a selection as i buy the things ten at a time.

It wasn't obvious how the tail light was secured so a quick look in the handbook showed the the bolt in question, which wasn't there when i lookedand the light fastening proved to be completely different and in a different place to that shown in the book.

The Landcruiser manual shows all the lights and how to change bulbs but due to the close proximity of the batteries suggests visiting the dealer for front indicator/side light bulbs, it took 2 minutes to nip each battery out in turn making access easy...incidentally the vehicle had two recent batteries in place when i bought it and a receipt in the pack, very fairly priced @ £75 each for genuine article, a price you really can't beat unless you go for an unknown make, but they charged a hefty £50 to fit them both, literally a ten minute job max with no messing about with the diagnostics to set them up.

Edited by gordonbennet on 04/12/2017 at 15:33

2008 volvo V70 needs the headlight removed by way of two large metal pins. the rear lights are do able but you need a supply of plasters as your knuckles lose a lot of skin.