fitting side light bulbs?

night_51 · Post by **night_51** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:52 pm

Hi guys,

Just thinking of fitting led side light bulbs tomo, but was just thinking there are bulbs in the main headlights and the little sidelights. Was just wondering how do you get to the bulbs in the small lights? Btw mines a k reg 4th gen. Any help would be much appreicated.

Many thanks,

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:57 pm

This is an absolute muffin to do on the 4th Gen. I means it seriously hard to do without denting or chipping the wings.
You can remove the bolts etc but the actual side light unit wont come out easily. Took me 3 hours to do both on my oth 4th Gens.
5th gen took me 30seconds.

night_51 · Post by **night_51** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:00 am

RattyMcClelland wrote:This is an absolute muffin to do on the 4th Gen. I means it seriously hard to do without denting or chipping the wings.
You can remove the bolts etc but the actual side light unit wont come out easily. Took me 3 hours to do both on my oth 4th Gens.
5th gen took me 30seconds.

Ahh, coz i did try to get the side light out but its held in (im a newbie to preludes

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Post by **Pushki** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:34 am

You should have one of these tools in your Prelude toolbox.
It allows you to reach the bulb holder and turn it.

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:17 am

I changed them in situ by hand when I put my orange bulbs in

Never again... The passenger side is the worst - a human hand should not fit in that space, and I had lots of nice cuts and scrapes to prove it

Interesting tool there Pushki, is that a Honda tool?

Post by **indigolemon** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:55 am

Is it a UK car? If so, this is pretty easy. If it's a JDM one then yeah, it's a ballache!

Post by **Pushki** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:48 am

jjmartin349571 wrote:Interesting tool there Pushki, is that a Honda tool?

It doesn't have any Honda markings but I'm sure it was supplied with the car when new.

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:54 am

Mine was UK and I hated changing them.

Post by **indigolemon** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:55 am

Should have been as simple as: Undo the wee bolt at the top with a phillips screwdriver, pry it forwards to release the friction clip thingy.

judderod · Post by **judderod** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:05 am

^ yeah mine were really easy too? Undo one screw, pull forward and it's out.