How do you take apart a fog light

[Adamdubz]

How do you take apart a fog light ? to clean them ?
As mine look ruff as

[walchy01]

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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 i think it smashed to pieces...

Like i said not 100%

[cняis]

I take it yours is a mk2 judging by that tiny avatar pic

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 

[Adamdubz]

ah thanks i hope this will work if not its new fog lights for me 

[bodga]

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

[Adamdubz]

sounds like a plan but might just jack up the car and get under it 

[cняis]

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

he means fogs not spots, for big bumper models 

sounds like a plan but might just jack up the car and get under it 

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

[bodga]

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

he means fogs not spots, for big bumper models 

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
hey presto clean fogs 

[cняis]

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

he means fogs not spots, for big bumper models 

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
hey presto clean fogs 

quote went a bit funny there ^ 

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

 

[rubjonny]

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