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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Adamdubz on 17 February 2011, 18:49
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How do you take apart a fog light ? to clean them ?
As mine look ruff as
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Not sure you can,dont hold me too it but i think they are a sealed unit, if i remember when i tried to open mine up as it was yellow one :sick: :sick: i think it smashed to pieces...
Like i said not 100%
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I take it yours is a mk2 judging by that tiny avatar pic :laugh:
this is how i took apart a fog lamp:
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=171744.0
You can separate the glass front from the rest of the unit by:
a) carefully prising the plastic tabs away from the rear half, and
b) removing the adjustment bolt by pushing it's tabs in to release it.
I tried heating the glass up with a hairdryer and prising it off, but the glass got chipped so i smashed the rest off :grin:
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ah thanks i hope this will work if not its new fog lights for me :grin:
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If they are cloudy like mine were all i done was used a long thin screwdriver, taped some cloth to the end, removed the front grille with the spots attached, removed the bulbs and dusted the inside with the cloth on the end of the screwdriver, cleaned up a treat :grin:
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sounds like a plan but might just jack up the car and get under it :grin:
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If they are cloudy like mine were all i done was used a long thin screwdriver, taped some cloth to the end, removed the front grille with the spots attached, removed the bulbs and dusted the inside with the cloth on the end of the screwdriver, cleaned up a treat :grin:
he means fogs not spots, for big bumper models :laugh:
sounds like a plan but might just jack up the car and get under it :grin:
you can remove the fog lamp unit from it's bracket but undoing 1 screw/bolt and sliding it out from the bracket. you should be able to do this from underneath the car
if not you can remove the lamp c/w bracket by removing the 2 bracket bolts which secure it to the inside of the bumper, but that would be difficult unless you take the bumper off
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If they are cloudy like mine were all i done was used a long thin screwdriver, taped some cloth to the end, removed the front grille with the spots attached, removed the bulbs and dusted the inside with the cloth on the end of the screwdriver, cleaned up a treat :grin:
he means fogs not spots, for big bumper models :laugh:
Not sealed units are they?
still take the bulbs out?
Make a cotton wool bud suitable for elephants using a brazing rod and a piece of cloth :laugh:
hey presto clean fogs :laugh:
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If they are cloudy like mine were all i done was used a long thin screwdriver, taped some cloth to the end, removed the front grille with the spots attached, removed the bulbs and dusted the inside with the cloth on the end of the screwdriver, cleaned up a treat :grin:
he means fogs not spots, for big bumper models :laugh:
Not sealed units are they?
still take the bulbs out?
Make a cotton wool bud suitable for elephants using a brazing rod and a piece of cloth :laugh:
hey presto clean fogs :laugh:
quote went a bit funny there ^ :laugh:
you'd still need to remove the fogs from the car to remove the bulbs from them, although removing the bulb will achieve nothing as theyre projector units so have a magnifying lens between the bulb and the front glass. to clean the inside of the glass you need to do this:
you can remove the fog lamp unit from it's bracket but undoing 1 screw/bolt and sliding it out from the bracket. you should be able to do this from underneath the car
if not you can remove the lamp c/w bracket by removing the 2 bracket bolts which secure it to the inside of the bumper, but that would be difficult unless you take the bumper off
:smiley:
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use MK3 Golf fog light housings, they're metal not plastic. plus the mk2 housing prob has all the reflective foil peel off it by now. mk2 fog glass swap straight on :)
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i dont get it is that the inside bit ?? that has the Magnifier on ?
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heres my guide:
http://www.clubgti.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=215836
the bit that is metal on the mk3 fog lamp is the brown bit where the bulb sits, you can just see all the peeling chrome in one of the pics. the white bit is similar on the mk3 lamp but it only has 1 adjuster hole.
you dont have to strip the mk3 housing like in the links above, i did this because the mk3 fogs i got had both the adjusters snapped off. so i stripped the mk2 and mk3 housings down, then swapped the mk3 metal bit into the mk2 white adjuster bit :)