OSRAM Nightbreaker Laser Installation MG5

[Silver estate]

Fitted mine today and got a skinned thumb knuckle for my pleasure doing N/s one

 

[manictomb]

I have paid Halfords 59 pound two new better halagen bulbs and the lady fitted them was brilliant and a lot better at night and no skinned fingers

 

[Silver estate]

I have paid Halfords 59 pound two new better halagen bulbs and the lady fitted them was brilliant and a lot better at night and no skinned fingers

I’m to tight

 

[smokie]

Remind me how much your car cost???

 

[Gomev]

Remind me how much your car cost???

Look after the pennies......and then you can afford a car.

 

[Silver estate]

Remind me how much your car cost???

£400 per month

 

[Mitch AC DC]

I fitted the uprated headlamps in my MG5 about a week ago and thought it would be a good idea to take a few pics and give some guidance to others planning the same task.

First remove the ten plastic bolts/clips holding the top cover.
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Once the fixings are removed, it's just held in place by Velcro strips on either side so it doesn't take much effort to lift it clear.
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Pull off the black rubber cap at the back of the headlight and you will see the existing lamp (or at least you can with the aid of a phone camera/mirror - there isn't space to get your head in!). You can see from the design of the clip that removal involves rotating and pulling.
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Finger space is tight (worse on the nearside) but I got it out.
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The clip holding the plug on is very tight and quite inflexible. More than one owner has reported breaking it whilst trying to remove so I came up with the idea of using an upholstery clip removal tool to open the tab. This worked perfectly and both were removed with no damage at all.
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The new lamp was plugged in to the connector (use rubber gloves when you do this so you don't touch the glass with your fingers).
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Insertion is in theory the opposite of removal and I'd like to say this was easy but I actually found it extremely difficult on the nearside at least due to lack of finger space. Pushing the lamp into location was straightforward but I just couldn't get sufficient purchase to rotate it into the locked position. In the end I made myself an Aluminium U shaped tool that was a snug fit over the end of the lamp casing to effectively lengthen it. This enabled me to rotate it without the need to get my fingers inside the headlight itself.
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Once they were both in it was just a matter of functional testing before everything was closed up.
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Full details of the lamps I bought from eBay (Demon Tweeks) for £19:
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shrewd idea, width of the bracket { tool } ?, thanks

 

[Alb]

It's about 22mm but 21mm will work if there's a little flexibility in the U Channel.