"Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur" (velocity860)
12/27/2013 at 15:54 • Filed to: Workin on cars
3
26|
"Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur" (velocity860)
12/27/2013 at 15:54 • Filed to: Workin on cars | 3
| 26 |
So today is my birthday (woo I'm 17), and I felt like working on my car. The rear driver's side marker bulb was out so went to work on replacing it.
Now, from what I read on forums, this bulb is a pain in the ass to get out. They weren't kidding.
This crap is in the way. So I took it off so I could get my arm in there better.
Much better. Kinda. So now I gotta reach my arm through a tight space between the bumper and some random metal.
Seriously, Toyota? This is obnoxious. Anyway, I finally get the bulb housing turned so it can be taken out....but it won't budge. You're joking. Then I realized maybe I should see if the light is still out before I go through even more arm mauling. I go turn on the lights and...
Well. It works now. So all it needed was some jiggling to get it to work, I guess. Stupid thing. Oh well, at least I didn't have to fully take it out, because I'm not sure that was even possible. I turn the housing back to the locked position and put everything back on, and it still works. So it looks like I fixed it.
Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 15:56 |
|
Hey, it worked! Good job!
Sometimes I just hit my lights when they stop working and they come back on. Same concept, less fucks given.
|
Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
> Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin
12/27/2013 at 15:58 |
|
Well I tried that to begin with and it didn't work. One of the parking lights on my mom's minivan doesn't work half the time, and if you smack it just the right way, it works.
ddavidn
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 15:58 |
|
That is an insane amount of work to change a bulb.
|
ddavidn
> Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin
12/27/2013 at 15:58 |
|
Yep, I do this a lot.
|
Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
> ddavidn
12/27/2013 at 16:00 |
|
The best way to do it is to take the freaking bumper off. For a tiny little marker bulb. Way to go Toyota
Crocket Bernet
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:00 |
|
Happy birthday.
$kaycog
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:00 |
|
Yay, it worked! And Happy Birthday!
|
Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
> $kaycog
12/27/2013 at 16:02 |
|
You should be glad I don't have epilepsy haha
|
ddavidn
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:02 |
|
Yeah that seems pretty silly. Pretty sure I could change my oil and wash my car in the time it takes you to change that bulb.
Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Enjoy the last year you have before you're a real adult ;)
StoneCold
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:04 |
|
Happy Birthday! As a gift, some advice: if it fixes itself, it can also break itself again.
|
Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
> ddavidn
12/27/2013 at 16:04 |
|
Blargh, adult responsibilities next year, I dun want that. At least I can legally show my junk to the internet then, totally makes up for everything else, ya know? (Lol I'm kidding)
|
Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
> StoneCold
12/27/2013 at 16:05 |
|
That is true. If it goes out again I'm just telling the dealer to do it, screw it.
|
ddavidn
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:06 |
|
Yes... You could ... but please don't ...
Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:10 |
|
Same thing happened the last time my dad left me in charge of replacing a bulb in our GX470. I was stuck between either sticking my hand into a crevice to change it or I think there was another option to tear out the right third of the engine compartment just to get to the dang light housing.
|
Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
> ddavidn
12/27/2013 at 16:11 |
|
Nibby
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:12 |
|
Happy birthday!
joemcm
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:14 |
|
Happy Birthday man!
|
$kaycog
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:17 |
|
It a very annoying gif, for sure. I thought it was neat until I watched it for a few seconds.
190e30-Now with COSWORTH
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:31 |
|
Happy birthday!You have an IS300 and you're 17? Jealous. Resist the hooning urge though, keep that thing clean and in good shape and I bet in a while those will appreciate so hard.
|
Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
12/27/2013 at 16:33 |
|
Oh don't worry, the hoonage is kept to a minimum. It's really clean, but might have been in an accident earlier in it's life. It had to be minor though. It's an amazing car!
|
190e30-Now with COSWORTH
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 16:36 |
|
I've been looking into them a bit, but it seems like CL is not the way to go. Everyone thinks theirs is worth $7000+, regardless of over 180k miles. I've heard they're great though.
|
Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
> 190e30-Now with COSWORTH
12/27/2013 at 16:38 |
|
Oh I hear ya. This one came up right as I was giving up on them. It was only 5 miles away! It's an auto, because the only manuals I could find were beat to hell and 300 miles away. If you can find a manual one for a decent price that isn't totally beat to hell, go for it. There was one around here that was 5 grand with 130k miles on it. It was a base base base model too, had the cloth seats (!), in a Lexus!
MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig
> ddavidn
12/27/2013 at 17:00 |
|
You should see how to do the reverse lights on a new Camaro. Step 1: remove rear bumper cover....
|
MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig
> ddavidn
12/27/2013 at 17:14 |
|
Also any engine work on a VW New Beetle requires removing most if not all of the front fascia. Same goes for any belts /hoses on an Audi.
Roberto G.
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 17:19 |
|
I feel your pain. Initially, the first question that came to my mind was "why he didn't check the fuckin' User Manual?" but then (and out of respect to you) I searched for the User Manual of your 2005 Lexus ( you may like to find it here ) and, lo and behold! ...apparently Toyota thinks that all their customers are helpless dumbasses, because they tell them what kind of bulb they may need, but the replacement instructions are like: "go find a Lexus dealer".
May be because Lexus is supposed to be a luxury car, and luxury cars owners don't use to ruin their fingertips on the lampholders, but instead they pay someone for the dirty job. It really must be so, because my Chevy shitbox (designed for us peones) has full, detailed instructions on how to remove ALL the lampholders, and I feel better this way.
I hope I'll never have in my hands a dumb manual like the one of your car.
AM3R
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
12/27/2013 at 19:40 |
|
It's just as bad on my dads 2007 honda accord. Pain in the ass...