Well done Ford

Today I had the pleasure of having to replace the driver side fog light bulb on my ‘00 Fiesta Zetec. I went to the local garage and purchased the requisite H1/55W bulb for the princely sum of €1.00. “No problem”, I thought, “I’ve replaced simple bulbs in cars and bikes before”.

Mistake.

Fiesta fog light Note the moisture build-up. Nice.

Ford cunningly made it ridiculously awkward and difficult to remove the fog lights on the Fiesta. I had to actually crawl under the car and faff about with some silly plastic clips, unplug the wiring (also ridiculously awkward due to silly plastic clips) and then push the light out from behind.
Once the light was out, I swapped in the new bulb and then had to do the whole shitty process in reverse. The whole job took me over half an hour!

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  • John Loughman on April 16th, 2005

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    Unlucky. Half an hour, that’s not much work. Thought it took longer the way you were going on about it. Anyway, that’s why people pay massive amounts of money to garages.

    John

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