Of All The Ornery And Thankless Tasks...

[replicant]

Of all the ornery and thankless tasks... is spending the early evening underneath your front bumper removing the wind deflector, reaching inside and wrestling to get the @#$%& of a thing (fog lamp assembly) out without removing all of the skin off your knuckles, breathing as you grimace from the road dust falling off the underside of the front cross member into your eyes, detaching the deutsche clip, cursing the fiendish sadism of the Ford engineers who put the things on as afterthoughts as you disassemble the lamp assembly with a screwdriver on the retaining clip, remove the rear boot with a screwdriver... swearing as your realise the screwdriver head has scratched the reflective paint on the back of the bulb, dropping the fiddly screw clip onto the floor of the workshop, scrabbling around on the floor looking for the blasted thing... trying to open the blister pack without touching the glass surface of the new bulb, fitting the first spade fitting, reassembling the assembly with the boot, threading the little cable through the rubber sleeve and reattaching the other spade fitting, and the lamp assembly holder and then shoving the thing back into the dark crevices of the bumper and grinding more road dust into your raw knuckles... attaching the deutsche fitting, testing the unit and then reassembling the wind deflector... and then after all the effort and smiling at the triumph of guile and bloodymindness wriggling around underneath the front bar so not to pay some half baked ford techo $$$s to replace it - the missus asks why have you taken so long to change over a simple light bulb.

I love her dearly... the girl not the car (at least not today anyhow...)

Edited 09/09/09 07:52 AM by replicant

[Dagabond]

...Thought you were goin to say that it didnt work.

[Buf-Phoon]

they have special men at Fraud who actually get paid for that

[MiKa]

HAHAHA I love it cause I can relate...

One of mine has been out for a few months now and what you've written above is the exact reason why I havent replaced it...

Think I might give it a bash this weekend..

[ebxmple]

Best way to get the driving lights out is to put a rag over the glass and punch it. It pops out with a couple of blows and doesnt break anything.

[tab]

Classic. Have experienced quite a few grazed knuckles and a bit of colourful language going through the same experience.

Did you replace them both? You know what's sure to happen within a week or two don't you?

[XR06T]

hot tip: remove bumper with stone tray still attached. should take 10 minutes, and is WAY easier to work on the spotties.