#1 Replacing headlight bulbs in your car.
Patience now wafer thin, hands cut to bits. Why modern car manufacturers, why would you make such an essential job so ****ing tricky?
Depends on the car and whether you've researched how to do the job properly or if you are just learning as you go doesn't it.
They expect you to change or to buy a new car instead of changing the headlight bulbs. 😆
Taking the Bins out.
#sparemetheindignity
First car (Peugeot 106) was a doddle, just pop the rubber bung off the back of the light and swap the bulb with acres of room. Handy given that it blew bulbs all over the shop.
Current Citroen involves unplugging the ABS control box thingy and cutting your hand to death, massive pain.
1. Using the mobile site (upside down only joking smiley but might send me into a machine gun rage at some point)
3. Cleaning heated towel rails.
2. Dealing with people that can’t count.
Shower trap.
Cleaning the maggot infested slop out of the food recycling bin.
anything that involves shite or blood/guts. human or animal.
Fitting 160mm thick celotex between rafters in a loft conversion, a soul destroying hateful job.
Sold the house in question, now buying another house with another large loft space, no please not again.
Cleaning/trimming off dingleberries from your dogs arse hair.
Top tip: Halfords.
Buy bulbs or wiper blades and a spotty teenager will fit it for you for an extra couple of quid.
Life’s too short for that sort of shizzle.
My FIL has a phrase that you should live life by...
Stick to what you’re good at. Pay someone else to do the rest
Amen to that
Gutting fish especially with a hangover
Sealing the shower tray and bath with silicone sealant.
Fish get hangovers?
This is where having a car with a small engine that leaves loads of room comes in handy!! Haven't had to change any bulbs on my car in it's 4 years but there's a load of space to do it and I can see the whole back of the units no problems.
My truly hateful task: Cleaning the oven. That's why I pay a man with a van and some cleaning stuff to do it for me. He does it in 30-40 mins whereas I take a few hours, so worth the cost!
oh the ironing....
Naaah.... get a big **** off engine and pay somebody else to fit your bulbs for you, then, new bulbs in place, go and rag it down a nice twisty B road. Headlights on, obviously 🙂
Fish get hangovers?
Heard the phrase “drinks like a fish”
🙂
Buy bulbs or wiper blades and a spotty teenager will fit it for you for an extra couple of quid.
Only if it's an easy job anyway, they gave up on my mum's car and gave her a refund
Rodding drains after youngest stepdaughter dispatched an entire toilet roll down the bog. To give her her dues, she stuck at it until it flushed.
So much for my working from home...
It still makes me want to vom thinking of the time [i][b]I[/b][/i] had to gut 6 red Gurnard when I had a stinker of a hangover
Top tip: Halfords.
Buy bulbs or wiper blades and a spotty teenager will fit it for you for an extra couple of quid.
For best value wait for a rainy. stormy, cold evening. That'll teach them for getting a job.
I refuse to pay some spotty oik to do these jobs. Id much rather be a martyr on here.
Top tip: Halfords.Buy bulbs or wiper blades and a spotty teenager will fit it for you for an extra couple of quid.
And probably cause damage that will cost significantly more than a couple of quid to fix...!
£7.00 innit?
I'd rather lose a finger, tbh.
And wiper blades are a piece of piss, takes seconds.
To be fair, the spotty teenager who fitted by bulbs and wipers at Halfords was really good. While he was doing it he was having a chat about the car, and clearly knew what he was doing with a lot more than bulbs and wipers.
I refuse to pay some spotty oik to do these jobs. Id much rather be a martyr on here.
Yep, that's my attitude, if I can do a job, I generally will....
Reading the 9/11 thread.
I have to go through the wheel arch for my headlights, no a job I'm looking forward to.
There should be legislation requiring headlight bulbs to be easily changeable at the roadside without tools.
Some countries require you to carry spare bulbs, but that's bugger all use if you need to dismantle the entire wing of the car to fit them!
Wiper blades though? Are they hard on some cars? It's sub ten second job on my Focus.
Reading the 911 thread.
I can second despising the loft insulation job. Boiler suit, plastic gloves, face mask, dusty, wriggling between and balancing on joists . . . .and all at about 120 degrees f.
Never again.
milky1980 - Member
This is where having a car with a small engine that leaves loads of room comes in handy!! Haven't had to change any bulbs on my car in it's 4 years but there's a load of space to do it and I can see the whole back of the units no problems.
Still depends on the car and how it’s designed; my Octavia light units just need a plastic cover removed, the bulb swapped over, cover replaced, takes a couple of minutes.
My old Puma, on the other hand, required a large Torq wrench to undo the bolts holding the grill in place and headlamp retaining straps in place, then removing the grill, drain tubes from the light unit, and wiring, then a ridiculous amount of time wiggling the entire light unit out of the car, take apart the unit swap bulb, reverse process, meaning roughly forty-five minutes to change a sidelight bulb!
Also, they (bulbs) never seem to need replacing on a balmy summer evening.No much more like a mid November evening in the bleak Scottish autumn/winter with a north wind blowing in pitch black conditions and a sleety rain draining any heat from your extremities and the will to live from your soul as you curse audibly whilst you lacerate your hands desperately trying to contort them behind heat shields and plumbing trying to plug the bulb back in place.
Clearing the drain/sewer inspection pit
Moderating this ****ing place.
Some countries require you to carry spare bulbs, but that's bugger all use if you need to dismantle the entire wing of the car to fit them!
I was once asked by a mate to help change a bulb on (IIRC) an Astra van. Long story short, "dealer service only" apparently.
My dip bulbs are replaced via a tiny hatch on the front of the wheel arch. It's probably easy enough if you've smallish and very flexible wrists and know braille but I need to jack the car up and take the wheel off to have any chance. For maximum perversity the main beam bulb is accessed from inside the bonnet.
To answer the OP though, cleaning dog shit from a deck shoe, one of those ones with loads of sipes.
V60 has 2 pull tabs and the light unit it out, really easy and simple.
Hateful for me is washing bottles to bottle beer and having to keep everything in the garden clean despite the missus regularly filling it with kids toy related crap.
Changing the wiper motor on a Lotus Esprit. You have a choice of completely dismantling the dashboard or cutting a hole in the body and making good.
Also rodding the neighbour's drains which have been blocked due to the use of wet wipes when changing the baby's nappy over the previous six months. Luckily night fell so one sense was spared.
Cleaning the car. Bleeding brakes.
Merak - Member#1 Replacing headlight bulbs in your car.
Patience now wafer thin, hands cut to bits. Why modern car manufacturers, why would you make such an essential job so **** tricky?
Ford Mondeo, 5 minute job- you undo 2 wee tabs and the entire headlight cluster comes out.
Now changing the clutch master cylinder in a Ford Focus, that's a gobshite. Disarm the airbag? Why would I have to do that? Oh we're removing the entire steering column? All to replace this 15p bit of broken plastic?
Anything involving gloss paint
What's been said and shopping for bike shoes. Why are they all so ugly?
Cleaning the oven.
Switch it to Pyrolytic, leave to simmer, come back later and sweep the ash out 8)
I hate changing our whole-house water filters; scrabbling at the back of a kitchen corner cupboard, always spills water, silicone grease, pah!
Anal glands.
Cleaning Venetian blinds, terrible job. On the other hand, if it wasn't for blinds it would be curtains for us all 🙂
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Cleaning the oven. Especially when you always put it off so its a once yearly job. Horrible chemicals, newspaper on the floor, gloves, dripping mankiness, racks won't fit in the sink, and if you turn it on so the light works, the fan blows the sticking fumes into your face...
Still depends on the car and how it’s designed; my Octavia light units just need a plastic cover removed, the bulb swapped over, cover replaced, takes a couple of minutes.
My old Puma, on the other hand, required a large Torq wrench to undo the bolts holding the grill in place and headlamp retaining straps in place, then removing the grill, drain tubes from the light unit, and wiring, then a ridiculous amount of time wiggling the entire light unit out of the car, take apart the unit swap bulb, reverse process, meaning roughly forty-five minutes to change a sidelight bulb!
My current car's a Fabia, must be a Skoda thing like the little tab for car park tickets 😀
Top tip: Halfords.Buy bulbs or wiper blades and a spotty teenager will fit it for you for an extra couple of quid.
I used to do that [i]waaay[/i] back when they first introduced it. Didn't take long for them to issue a big blue book with a list of every car and what jobs you could and could not do. I remember one car had the instructions for replacing an indicator bulb, the second line was 'remove the engine mount!'. We weren't allowed to change wiper blades on a Chrysler Voyager, turns out they are clipped on as usual but you then have to crimp the fitting to stop them falling out, all due to the blades being curved for some odd reason.
Cleaning dog egg from the soles of shoes. Why is it you always step in it wearing your shoes with the most intricate treads?
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It's probably easy enough if you've smallish and very flexible wrists and know braille
Heh heh heh...
+1 for oven cleaning.
I'll add pretty much anything involving caring for my daughter's rabbits. Needless to say, the regular cage cleaning falls to me, cue me standing in the garden hosing and scrubbing at 9 o'clock at night. They're pretty ripe by two days post-cleaning and ****ing rancid by day three.
Seriously, if you ever feel that your life has become a bit anodyne and predictable, buy a pair of house rabbits. You'll be clinging to the ragged edge of your sanity in no time.