Member Since: 01 Apr 2013
Location: Newton Mearns
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Side light issue
So this happened today. Any ideas on extraction?
TIA
NEILD3 2005 TDV6 7 Seat Zambezi Silver
Tints
19" HSE Alloys
Clear side repeaters
Xenons
LED Everywhere
3 Flash Indicators and clock on dash
Cruise
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Audi A6 S line Black Edition Daytona Grey
5th Jan 2020 8:44 pm
Disco_Mikey
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Location: Dundee, Scotland
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Member Since: 12 Apr 2015
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lol when this happened to me I got some old fuel pipe and rigged it up on a vac cleaner then fished about till I got hold of it and removed patience will be your friend please excuse any grammer/punctuation mistakes,i'm thick,thankyou
current vehicles 2005 d3 2013 d4
5th Jan 2020 9:29 pm
Beno2
Member Since: 18 Apr 2009
Location: SE
Posts: 994
First of all the Led in question is massively oversized for a side light . Through vibration and pure weight it will happen again.
You try putting the Disco up a very steep bank to see if it would roll near the hole
Or stiff copper wire and some Blu tacD3 HSE
5th Jan 2020 9:54 pm
Dave T
Member Since: 03 Jul 2009
Location: Glasgow
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take it apart.....and detango at the same time?
It is fairly easy to doJoined the BMWX5 45e group
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6th Jan 2020 6:42 am
Globetrotter448
Member Since: 21 Mar 2017
Location: Londonderry NSW
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Take headlight out, hold in the air, and wiggle like its the last tango, then a bit of wire to fish it out. Other than that, strip the light.
6th Jan 2020 8:03 am
NellyD5
Member Since: 01 Apr 2013
Location: Newton Mearns
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I ll give the shoogling and shaking method another go
Does the light split with out baking?D3 2005 TDV6 7 Seat Zambezi Silver
Tints
19" HSE Alloys
Clear side repeaters
Xenons
LED Everywhere
3 Flash Indicators and clock on dash
Cruise
Roof Rails
Audi A6 S line Black Edition Daytona Grey
6th Jan 2020 8:52 pm
NellyD5
Member Since: 01 Apr 2013
Location: Newton Mearns
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Dave T wrote:
take it apart.....and detango at the same time?
It is fairly easy to do
When will I drop it off? D3 2005 TDV6 7 Seat Zambezi Silver
Tints
19" HSE Alloys
Clear side repeaters
Xenons
LED Everywhere
3 Flash Indicators and clock on dash
Cruise
Roof Rails
Audi A6 S line Black Edition Daytona Grey
6th Jan 2020 8:54 pm
eightfoot
Member Since: 12 Apr 2015
Location: sunny essex
Posts: 805
as stated earlier vac cleaner and a length of pipeplease excuse any grammer/punctuation mistakes,i'm thick,thankyou
current vehicles 2005 d3 2013 d4
6th Jan 2020 9:07 pm
NellyD5
Member Since: 01 Apr 2013
Location: Newton Mearns
Posts: 740
Will give this a go at the weekend. Update to follow D3 2005 TDV6 7 Seat Zambezi Silver
Tints
19" HSE Alloys
Clear side repeaters
Xenons
LED Everywhere
3 Flash Indicators and clock on dash
Cruise
Roof Rails
Audi A6 S line Black Edition Daytona Grey
6th Jan 2020 9:40 pm
Dave T
Member Since: 03 Jul 2009
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 6910
Just needs warming with hairdryer or hot air gun and it’ll pull apartJoined the BMWX5 45e group
1994 Defender 90
2015 RRS Corris Grey/Black roof
2016 D4 Graphite Santorini Black
2012 D4 XS Orkney Grey
2005 D3 S Maya Gold
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