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help with headlight removal

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Andy:
i did mine last week took me an hour and thats with swapping buldbs...the rub strips i on the front bumper i wrapped a cloth around a screw driver and from underneath just prised a gap and pulled them of with my finger..the botttom screw i undid and took it out with a magnet
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,18209.msg258064.html#msg258064
the trickiest bit is getting the head light out and back in again..i did mine by lifting the left hand side and sliding it out...where the littlee torx screws go in thier is a 19mm plastic nut which you adjust to get the gap fight with your grill so it fits flush

dougle_turbo:
Okay, so managed to get the bump strips off pretty easily using a screwdriver with gaffer tape around it to protect the paint (just a case of slowly teasing it out). However on the GTI it seems that this still will not allow access to the third and final screw on the headlight. This is beacause the bumper strip on the GTI is not as large as those on other models, and has the headlight washer meachanism to contend with.  It seems to me that this is a mistake in the workshop manual, and that to get the headlights out will require front bumper removal.

I will check this tomo night and let ya'll know.

 :happy2:

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