{"id":242,"date":"2006-06-17T18:36:32","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/06\/bulbs-not-the-garden-sort\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T08:30:51","slug":"bulbs-not-the-garden-sort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/06\/17\/bulbs-not-the-garden-sort\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulbs. Not the garden sort."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/headlight.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Headlight bulb\" align=\"right\" \/>On Wednesday night I noticed that one of my headlights wasn&#8217;t working. Curiously, it was the bulb that I had changed only about six months ago that had given up the ghost.<\/p>\n<p>So I went to Halfords yesterday and bought myself a replacement bulb (and a spare, but that is by the by). But my dreams of a swift and easy changeover were hampered somewhat by the fact that the bonnet wouldn&#8217;t open. As you can imagine, at this point I became a little stressed out. I had visions of myself having to submit the car to be crushed into a tiny cube, simply because the engine compartment was now an impenetrable fortress and there was no engine oil or windscreen washer fluid left.<\/p>\n<p>Google is your friend &#8211; I found [this][]:<\/p>\n<p>[this]: http:\/\/groups.google.co.uk\/group\/uk.rec.cars.maintenance\/browse_thread\/thread\/20c1f70f4831c4b8\/<\/p>\n<p>> Pull the lever and have your mate press down on the bonnet where the catch is. Worked on my Cav ((Vauxhall Cavalier)). I think the cable has stretched a bit. I made a temporary repair by putting a Scotchlock connector on the end of the release cable. (Temporary = 3 years ago and it still works well!)<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, it worked. Valuable tip there.<\/p>\n<p>Which leaves me only with the question &#8211; why did the bulb only last for a few months?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night I noticed that one of my headlights wasn&#8217;t working. Curiously, it was the bulb that I had changed only about six months ago that had given up the ghost. So I went to Halfords yesterday and bought myself a replacement bulb (and a spare, but that is by the by). But my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4],"tags":[151,149,150,148],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander","category-photos","tag-bonnet","tag-bulb","tag-halfords","tag-headlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}