I think I've established in earlier posts that I'm a cheapskate.
And such is life imitating art I'm in a situation that involves me saving my pennies (cents apparently) and that means old car remains new car for some time.
And much like me it's got a few KMs on the clock now and whilst it functions fine it's a bit wobbly and parts are starting to fail. Unlike me, it's possible to swap stuff out. I'll not bore you with the garage trip today to try and tune out the "It's like an old dryer on spin cycle" handling that it has developed at what I consider low speeds.
No. This post is the apoplectic anger of fitting a new bulb. It's hard enough trying to pull apart a modern car to fit a bulb. I'm no vet, but I reckon I was up to my elbow in my car, and that's not including the 180.deg bend I had to put into my wrist as my arm seemed to be too long and passed the bulb 'pit'. The clips are different on every car, and once my minor panic of removing the entire light fitting was over I was good to go with the 'hard way'.
But what made it worse, far, far worse was the packaging for my discount bulbs...
These in fact:
The packaging though... Clearly, DaVinci had the code to open this. I on the other hand had a screwdriver, pliers and eventually some safety glasses.
You see these lights are entombed in tough brittle clear plastic, in places two layers of the 2mm thick stuff. It was damn near bulletproof frankly.
It wasn't old git proof though... Half an hour I spent getting into this packaging, with shards of plastic flying off all over the place. It really was a war zone as I tried to get into f'ing thing.
It's worse as you're not supposed to touch the bulb too, so they're loose(ish) in this hard casing, and as you work you through the layers to get them like some miner who's seen the diamond but needs to get through 3metres of granite you run the risk of ruining them with the excavations.
Finally I had them free. Then, then the fun started of traversing the front of the car "not touching the bulb" (tm).
There surely is an easier and cheaper way to package these please Repco.
And such is life imitating art I'm in a situation that involves me saving my pennies (cents apparently) and that means old car remains new car for some time.
And much like me it's got a few KMs on the clock now and whilst it functions fine it's a bit wobbly and parts are starting to fail. Unlike me, it's possible to swap stuff out. I'll not bore you with the garage trip today to try and tune out the "It's like an old dryer on spin cycle" handling that it has developed at what I consider low speeds.
No. This post is the apoplectic anger of fitting a new bulb. It's hard enough trying to pull apart a modern car to fit a bulb. I'm no vet, but I reckon I was up to my elbow in my car, and that's not including the 180.deg bend I had to put into my wrist as my arm seemed to be too long and passed the bulb 'pit'. The clips are different on every car, and once my minor panic of removing the entire light fitting was over I was good to go with the 'hard way'.
But what made it worse, far, far worse was the packaging for my discount bulbs...
These in fact:
Plus 60 (...minutes to get into the packaging)
They're not fancy. Not blue, green, red or anything other than normal. They don't discharge in an intensely high way. They are better than standard (of course) but I doubt it.
The packaging though... Clearly, DaVinci had the code to open this. I on the other hand had a screwdriver, pliers and eventually some safety glasses.
You see these lights are entombed in tough brittle clear plastic, in places two layers of the 2mm thick stuff. It was damn near bulletproof frankly.
It wasn't old git proof though... Half an hour I spent getting into this packaging, with shards of plastic flying off all over the place. It really was a war zone as I tried to get into f'ing thing.
It's worse as you're not supposed to touch the bulb too, so they're loose(ish) in this hard casing, and as you work you through the layers to get them like some miner who's seen the diamond but needs to get through 3metres of granite you run the risk of ruining them with the excavations.
Finally I had them free. Then, then the fun started of traversing the front of the car "not touching the bulb" (tm).
There surely is an easier and cheaper way to package these please Repco.
No comments:
Post a Comment