My order from Eurocarparts arrived just as was heading out so I came home early hoping to catch a bit of daylight, I still ended up needing the cage light.
Luckily it wasn't quite as finger numbingly cold as it was this morning.
Had a quick go at changing the bulb on the drivers side which had a bit more space, but without eyes on stalks I couldn't see a thing. Turns out it's pretty easy just to pop the headlight unit on a Focus (two bolts on top, one needing the car on bricks to get at from underneath). I still ended up removing the front grill as it kept jamming. Same routine on the passenger side which has no access unless you have girl hands.
Fitted BulbNightbreaker Plus Bulbs (£12.49), they seem brighter but now I have to fix the levelling as one is pointing at the sky.
New windscreen wipers too, 22" and 19" (I somehow deleted the rear one from the order
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Now the problem on the Mk1.5 Focus is that they don't clear the top of the screen, so as an experiment I took off the new 19" on the passenger side and refitted the old drivers 22" in its place.
Interestingly this works fine and it now wipes to the far left of the screen, so now I'm going to get a 24" wiper for the drivers side and see it it will work without interference. It might need clipping, but if it can clean that annoying two inches at the top of the screen then the improvement will be amazing.
I can't think why Ford specify obviously the wrong size wipers for this model?
Had lots of fun recovering the nut that I dropped behind the headlight and the spanner I dropped in front of the radiator (no gap here for some reason so it was full of rocks and leaves?). A bent coat hanger was tried until I gave in and fetched the magnet tool.
Extra man points for doing all this in the dark and for losing only one screw
