The computer on my 1996 328SE is displaying 'Low beam failure'. Can I
ask the garage to simply replace the nearside dipped headlight bulb
please? Or have I got to brace myself for a completely new headlamp
unit?

-- 
Terry, West Sussex, UK

"Terry Pinnell"  wrote 

> The computer on my 1996 328SE is displaying 'Low beam failure'. Can I
> ask the garage to simply replace the nearside dipped headlight bulb
> please? Or have I got to brace myself for a completely new headlamp
> unit?


AFAIK, unless it's a Xenon, both the high and low beams are H7 bulbs.
Why don't you replace it yourself?

Floyd

In article ,
   Terry Pinnell  wrote:

> The computer on my 1996 328SE is displaying 'Low beam failure'. Can I
> ask the garage to simply replace the nearside dipped headlight bulb
> please? Or have I got to brace myself for a completely new headlamp
> unit?


If you actually read the driver's handbook it gives details on bulb
replacement. In many countries you are required to carry spares for
'important' bulbs like this so they must be replaceable at the roadside by
the driver.

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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:11:45 +0000 (UTC), "David Taylor"
 wrote:


>I'm sure at least one Halfords assistant knows what they're talking
>about, but I haven't met them yet.


I have (twice), but they've probably moved on.

The first was the Sunday manager in my local store who sold me four Thule
cycle carriers at the same price as their own-brand "equivalent", and who
cut himself and bled copiously opening the feet fitting box so I could see
how the roof bars attached to the car roof.  The second was at another
branch when I needed a new set of feet (don't ask) but found none on the
shelf, and an assistant recalled that someone had maybe returned that item
earlier and it might be somewhere in a store-room.  He duly turned up with
the right box a few minutes later, and wrote me a specific receipt for my
insurance company.

Just the other week I encountered a very helpful (older) assistant at B&Q.
When I thanked him for his help, he said "no problem, it's my job".

-- 
I have a plan so cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel