Rear Fog Light

vwdan · Post by **vwdan** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:57 pm

Hi
Parked my car tonight and thought I would quickly do a check of my lights as it was dark and I turned on my rear fog ones and it looks like i only have a rear right fog which is working.

Is it pretty easy to change the other one?? or am I being ignorant and actually only have one rear fog light? lol someone told me that it is possible although I would have thought 2!

Im pretty sure its 2 as I have checked before

Sorry if I am sounding completely dumb!

Cheers

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:49 pm

It only has one rear fog light.

In the same way it only has one reversing light.

vwdan · Post by **vwdan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:46 am

Oh right cool cheers

Sorry about that just having dumb moment! I knew it only had 1 reversing light but thought it had 2 rear fogs for some reason lol

Dee-vub · Post by **Dee-vub** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:34 pm

nah. there is one of each. my reverse light aint working anyway. Cant be bothere fixing it

vwdan · Post by **vwdan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:12 pm

is it quite fiddly to change one of the rear lights if need be? the front lights seem fairly awkward especially the front left

Dee-vub · Post by **Dee-vub** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:07 pm

The front lights are a bastard to change. The bumper needs to come off

The rear lights are an absolute peice of p***, couple of screws

vwdan · Post by **vwdan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:12 pm

Oh right easy as that!
I had to have a front right one changed and that was just a case of shifting the battery a little no problem.
I didnt think you needed to drop the bumper on the MKV

Bloody VW lol

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:16 pm

Dee-vub wrote:The front lights are a bastard to change. The bumper needs to come off

The rear lights are an absolute peice of p***, couple of screws

No screws involved if you're only changing bulbs

The bulb holder just unclips from each side and it's as easy as that

samil87 · Post by **samil87** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:45 pm

rear light bulbs are easy to change

just unclip the bulb holder and replace the bulb

vwdan · Post by **vwdan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:49 pm

Cool cheers gonna have to bear it in mind in the future
I didnt think they would be that hard to change. Not as fiddly as the front anyway

polo power · Post by **polo power** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:07 pm

no need to take the front bumper off to change a front bulb, i think this only applies to Gti's

Dee-vub · Post by **Dee-vub** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:15 pm

i took my bumper off to change the whole headlight, may not be the case when it comes to changind bulbs, not too sure on that one.

vwdan · Post by **vwdan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:19 pm

I know on some VW's especially some of the golfs you have to take off the bumper!
Theres not a lot of space at all in the GTI is there? It still looks pretty fiddly to do the front left one.

God knows how much it would cost for a proper VW garage to change a bulb? Anyone took it to one? lol

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:20 pm

Yep, it costs quite a bit

Under Â£100 though, that's on a GTi anyway.

vwdan · Post by **vwdan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:25 pm

They charge sumin like 60 quid an hour dont they?
So would prob be about an hours labour and the cost of a bulb + vat lol

Pretty crazy! Do most people on here go to VW garages for servicing or to other reputable garages?