Because access is so tight, its difficult to see how they were fitted in the 1st place, so i had to refer to the haynes book to get an idea of which way up etc they were supposed to go, took bloody ages to get them back in, grrrrr. Eventually got both bulbs swapped over, spring clips back on, hurrah, but before i put the engine covers on both sides back, i'll check to make sure they are working ok. FFS, the driver side one stopped working??? re-checked how i'd connected it, & luckily it was my mistake, so once i'd re-connected it correctly, it came on, phew. The bulb covers replaced & the engine covers put back on.
I jump in the car, put in the key & the car is as dead as a dodo, oh no, perhaps i've knocked a connector off, so have to open up the engine bay & took the psgr side engine cover off, spot that one of the battery terminal clip lever thingies is higher than the other side, so push it back down, fingers crossed & hurrah, the car has power, however. I noticed that an extra dash light has illuminated which now prevents the car from firing up, FFS. So i switch everything off, jump out of the car, alarm the car & then unlock the car. At this point although i'm an aethiest, please GOD fire up & thank fuck she does.
All i've got to do now is re-do the clock as its defaulted to zero hours, but by this point i just left it for another day.
If you bare in mind that this was all done outside, initially with a torch that was getting dimmer & dimmer, so another light from the garage had to be used to help, but it was too big to get into the parts that i needed, so my vision was hampered when trying to fit those damn clips & bulbs, it was windy as fuck & light drizzle was coming down at one point. So feeling quite pleased with myself, cos at one point i had 2 non working bulbs & i was thinking, oh shit, wish i'd never started this job, but when was i going to get time to do it, i work everyday except the weekends & didn't want to leave it that long with a bulb out.
So, if anyone needs some H7 bulbs changing on a mk1 C5, i won't charge you too much to do them
