Well I feel pretty pathetic, can't successfully change a light bulb....
I've only just finally got around to trying to put my new NovSights in (N38 9005 BTW), obviously out in the dark so that I can see to adjust them.
Got the old bulb out ok without breaking any clips!
The new one was really tight trying to get it to turn and lock in place.... Eventually I managed to get a view on it that showed that one of the 3 lugs wasn't inside the metal socket. So it must've been at a bit of an angle, although from where I was I couldn't really tell it wasn't in square.
Tried to turn it to remove it, could not get a good enough grip/twist on it - even with the lovely white cotton gloves supplied.
Had to resort to a pair of grips, got it turned slightly which was enough to get it back out, but it's broken the plastic on the fan, great.
So studying the new bulb further and trying again.
The fitting collar on the new led bulbs allows the led housing to rotate (it's just tight as got a couple of O rings on it), but it won't turn forever, something stops it turning at one point. The collar has a small cut out/lug at one point, which hits on the screw in the housing at a certain point of the rotation.
You can't get a grip on the actual fitting collar (with the 3 lugs) to just twist it when fitting, so you have to hold the housing and turn the whole lot. But the housing twists in the collar, so that turns and, the collar doesn't lock into the socket. So I've realised that you need to turn the housing in the collar as far as it'll go first (in the right direction), such that when you go to fit it, when you turn the housing to lock it in place it immediately forces the collar to do the small turn required to lock in place.
Conversely, when removing it, I pretty much had to rotate the housing a whole 360 degrees anti-clockwise before it caught on the collar, to then cause the collar to turn the small amount on the socket and come out.
I did try fitting the collar on its own into the socket, as I thought that maybe easier - as will then just need to push the led housing into it. But couldn't grip the collar to click it into place on it's own.
Oh, and you have to stuff the box on the lead attached to the new LED bulb, into the space inside the light fitting first, otherwise after locking in the bulb it won't quite fit past it to get inside out of the way to be able to fit the dust seal/cap.
I'm now stuck as I've only got 1 good new bulb now, but to check it's ok, I fitted it to do the alignment....
I've never actually had to align a headlight before! So I marked on the wall infont of the car where the top of the light pattern was - there's a nice clear horizontal line from light to dark. I chalk marked dipped & full beam (full beam isn't a prominent line).
The new led bulb, on dipped, no matter what, when I turned it (the housing that rotates inside the collar locked into the socket), always gave a nice horizontal line at the same place. But it will won't it, as it uses a moveable bit to block the light, so I don't quite know how to tell if it's lined up?
The light pattern on the ground infront of the car changed a bit as I turned it, but how do you know what it right?
Should the bit with the actual LEDs on it be vertical, such that the LEDs on either side are directly on a level horizontal plane? When it is like this, the wire coming out of the housing is either directly at the top or bottom?
I hope this makes sense!?
