Side light Bulb - Honda Accord

luckyD

Hi all, just looking for a bit of advice here. A few days ago both my side light bulbs blew together. No problem i thought and went out a bought two new bulbs for them. Went to replace them today and started with the passenger side one. No problems there, then moved onto the driver side one.
10 minutes later and a bloody hand and the bulb is still stuck in there. It just wont twist out! The passenger side one came to easy but this is really stuck.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get it out? some sort of lube perhaps? if anyone knows the accord theres not much room to play with behind the light of the drivers side and you can barley fit your hand in.
Thanks for any help, i really dont want to have to bring this to a mechanic to get a bulb changed - ill be laughed at. Oh yeh its a 2004 Accord.

JHMEG

Try twist with a pliers with a bit of cloth over the jaws. Is the battery in the way? Take it out if it is.

luckyD

cheers mate believe it or not that thought just popped into my head there. ill give it ago in a bit. nope battery not in the way its on the otherside. i can get my hand to it but its not twisting anywhere at all. no budge in it. i dissconnected the cable so its just the bulb holder with the bulb in it, thats stuck inside the light. ill let ya know how i get on.

Captain Slow IRL

You might get a bit more access if you loosen off the washer bottle - they are a b*&%$ to do:mad: There is a bit of stripping but if you loosen this and remove the ps resevoir bracket, it should be a little easier.

luckyD

Got the b*****d! who hoo. used the pliars with a jay cloth wrapped around the end to losen it up. then re connected the wite to the bulb holder for more leverage and managed to get the hand to it to twist it off. lets hope i never have to do that again. was looking at the washer bottle and was thinking that but then again i was also thinking about taking off the wing to. . . . . .anyways cheers for the help.

JHMEG

The washer bottle is probably slid into a braket and will lift up out of it?

Believe it or not the indicator bulbs are changed by pulling the fenders back! Sounds worse than it is.

gibbon75

Not the fenders,only the splashguards

JHMEG

It's actually the inner fender. (Splashguard is otherwise known as a mudflap)

gibbon75

The splashguard (or some like to call it the wingliner,but I've heard many other names as well) is the plastic cover inside the wing or quarterpanel.
The mudflap is a different thing again ( I think the name is self explanatory...)
But maybe you are right and everyone else in the trade is wrong

JHMEG

Don't take my word for it. Ask Honda (see the image above which went missing from the original post)

When the body of the car is wider than the wheels the fenders are inside the wings (front) or quarter panels (rear).

Splash guards illustration:

http://www.accessories-honda.com/store/product_info.php/cPath/28_81_83/products_id/481

gibbon75

I work for Honda and we use the term splashguard for that item,just like every mechanic,panel beater etc. I know

The fender expression is typically used by the yanks,maybe your Honda EPC copy is a US one...(in our system it is called liner)

Just go to http://www.honda-access.com and check out the same part you just linked

JHMEG

You can call it what you like, doesn't mean it's right

gibbon75 wrote: »

The fender expression is typically used by the yanks,maybe your Honda EPC copy is a US one...(in our system it is called liner)

Ironically you didn't recognise that to be the inner fender from a UK-built Accord.

JHMEG

Also, the manual for my (Jap-built) Civic IMA refers to that part as the fender, as have the manuals for all the other Hondas I've owned.

gibbon75

JHMEG wrote: »

You can call it what you like, doesn't mean it's right


Ironically you didn't recognise that to be the inner fender from a UK-built Accord.

UK built but the language settings of the EPC are always use the local terminology (or at least most of the time).

So leave it at that you are right and the Irish-English terminology is wrong...

Wheelnut

It seems Lucky has the job done so it's too late for advice for him, but for anyone else (and to clear up some of the above) here's how to do it:

First make some room, there's a plastic trim along the side of the engine bay from the top of the headlamp to the base of the windscreen held on by four clips, remove that. Remove the kneck of the washer bottle by opening a 10mm bolt and pulling off (the bottle stays). It may also help to remove the dust cap off the dim beam headlamp. Now stand facing forward relative to the car and use your left hand to remove the bulb. It's not the first connection you feel when you put your hand in, it's the second smaller connection further in and it just pulls straight out (no twist).

I've just done one and it really is an awkward hoor! At different points I considered removing the grill, the headlamp and the wing. I actually opened the bolts for the wing to see if there was any movement possible. In the end, the method above worked.