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Old 10-20-18, 01:22 PM
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Oh boy here I go= last night I put my parking light led's in above my headlights and boy do I have a problem....one of the old bulbs fell into the light! Could not figure out how to fix it. It makes a noise whenever I hit a bump. Any ideas on how I fix this?
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Originally Posted by gbdad
Oh boy here I go= last night I put my parking light led's in above my headlights and boy do I have a problem....one of the old bulbs fell into the light! Could not figure out how to fix it. It makes a noise whenever I hit a bump. Any ideas on how I fix this?
Use the vacuum with the small hose and suck the bulb out.
Old 10-20-18, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by GmanSC

Use the vacuum with the small hose and suck the bulb out.
Oh God, I hope this works! I'll let you know!
Old 10-21-18, 01:51 PM
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Oh God, I hope this works! I'll let you know!
It didn't work. Could not suction the light out no matter what I tried & I tried suction through a tiny tube, trying to grab it with a hook I fashioned and a rigged up wire with tape on the end of it. Additionally the part of the parking lamp the bulb goes into has a tab connecting it and that came loose. Now I need to remove the headlight, please show me how to do this! Extremely frustrated and confused
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Originally Posted by gbdad
It didn't work. Could not suction the light out no matter what I tried & I tried suction through a tiny tube, trying to grab it with a hook I fashioned and a rigged up wire with tape on the end of it. Additionally the part of the parking lamp the bulb goes into has a tab connecting it and that came loose. Now I need to remove the headlight, please show me how to do this! Extremely frustrated and confused
how did you loose the bulb?
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You did not do corectly. Ít should work. A member of this forum had same problem few year back, by attached the small tube 1/8 dia, not tiny, to the vacuum cleaner, he successfully sucked the bulb out.
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The bulb fell into the light, and I did it the right way. Used the small tube attached to the vacuum cleaner with no results as the bulb had wedged itself in.

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Here is how to get the bulb out using vacuum cleaner. ShawnOK did it in post #6. You should be able to. The key is to use the right size of tubing, not too small, you don't have enough suction.
Try this first, before removing your headlight.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sc4...o-housing.html

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