I stupidly put in those multi LED T10 which comprises of 5 LED's. When it started to flicker within a week, I did not know that they flicker individually and thinking that the whole parker is about to fail, I decided to replace it but whilst removing it, it fell inside the headlight assembly :facepalm

Anyone has any ideas how to remove it easily?

It is the headlight on the battery side for a TF.

The other side parker is flickering as well.

Lessons learnt and hopefully others avoid this mistake.

1. Do not use cheap Ebay parkers
2. Be careful when you insert/remove parkers which are a tight squeeze (Especially the multi LED ones which scrape as they go in and out.)

Undo the metal clips around the outside, heat up the headlight glue and remove the front casing.

Should be able to unbolt the headlight, remove the main bulb in that section and try to shake/coerce the parker out through that hole?

Just take the headlight out, take the rubber boots off and the globes out and then shake it out

No, don't go undoing the lens and breaking the water seal. If you can see it at the front of the headlight that's good. Remove globe so you can access light better. Get a sift piece of wire and cut to size and put double sided tape on the end or blue tack. The tape worked better for me. Bend the wire as needed and go after the globe. With the double sided tape only needs light pressure against Parker globe and it should stick to wire then pull it out. Might be a tad fiddly but took 5-10 mins to get it out including making the wire retriever. Beats pulling light out or even cracking the water seal. I tried a coat hanger wire but it was too stiff from memory.

No, don't go undoing the lens and breaking the water seal. If you can see it at the front of the headlight that's good. Remove globe so you can access light better. Get a sift piece of wire and cut to size and put double sided tape on the end or blue tack. The tape worked better for me. Bend the wire as needed and go after the globe. With the double sided tape only needs light pressure against Parker globe and it should stick to wire then pull it out. Might be a tad fiddly but took 5-10 mins to get it out including making the wire retriever. Beats pulling light out or even cracking the water seal. I tried a coat hanger wire but it was too stiff from memory.

Agreed - happened to me and took me 5 mins with a stick and sticky tape coiled up over the end of it.

Each to their own i spose, im not a fan of fiddly stuff. If you heat it up again before you push the lens back onto the casing then the seal will be fine, if in doubt a small bead of silicone will suffice.

Thats if you dont want to fiddle around with the coathanger.

I've owned my VRX for 3 years now... for 2 years and 10 months of that it's had a parker rolling around the headlight... never bothered to fix it.

Each to their own i spose, im not a fan of fiddly stuff. If you heat it up again before you push the lens back onto the casing then the seal will be fine, if in doubt a small bead of silicone will suffice.

Thats if you dont want to fiddle around with the coathanger.

Pull the headlight out and doing all of that will take 1-2 hours. Its a 3 min job to get it out otherwise.

Being a TF means it would have the Exc Headlights, taking that out takes 5 mins, pulling it apart is another 5min job, i wouldn't see it taking more than half an hour.

Like i said thought each to their own.

Edit: Spelling

Just take the headlight out, take the rubber boots off and the globes out and then shake it out

This, or shake it to the hole and fiddle at it with pointy nose pliers. If it scraped in, tape on a stick might not get it all the way out, if you can bring it to the hole with a tapey-stick and grab the globe with pointy pliers if theres enough room you won't need to take the light out the car.


also: good excuse for parras if you have exec lights?

magnetic screw driver tip take-up?

Thanks for all the replies.

I rather not break the seal or even remove the headlight.

Will try for sticky tape method on the weekend.

Not enough metal for magnetic screw tip to hold on to.