Those of you who have Hoen city lights EDIT: I NEED HELP!

**ABanT** · 05-27-2008 11:27 AM

Are yours melted to your housing? Mine burnt out and I can't get it out. It's fused to the housing.

Any of you guys able to get them out?

I'll post a pic later since this thread is worthless without pics. hah

Edit:
I took my other one out, which is fine, isn't melted to the housing.

Now for the other side, I can't get it out! It's part of the housing now! Anyone with ideas on how to get it out? Would some sort of heat gun be a viable option? Stick it in there and heat it up so that I can hopefully pull it out. But I'd be worried about melting other things too. Also, what exactly makes it too hot, the DRL or the Xenons? I'm thinking of leaving the lights on for awhile to try and heat everything up to get it out.

What to do?!?!

**ABanT** · 05-27-2008 04:52 PM

Bump

**AudiWxGuy** · 05-27-2008 04:55 PM

There have been countless comments/warnings of this happening with the Hoen City Light bulbs.

**Jay B7** · 05-27-2008 05:15 PM

uh oh. i better look at mine.

**gervi** · 05-27-2008 05:27 PM

yea there was a big thread about it a couple months ago.. thats why people are going crazy over the new LED city lights that one of our own members is making as a solution to this problem. Sorry to hear that it happened to you, another person had to replace their set of headlights because of this.

**VZWalex** · 05-27-2008 05:53 PM

I heard of the city lights issue thats about it. I have the rear plate and the fog light bulbs. no issues yet and going on 6 months.

**MDB7** · 05-27-2008 06:52 PM

when my hoens did the same thing I took a hanger and bent it so that I could get the end of the hanger (covered in ducktape) inside the opening and was able to fish the broken peices of bulb out of the headlight housing.

**ABanT** · 05-27-2008 08:24 PM

lol fcuk me.

I know about the thread before, but when I checked then it was already fused to the housing anyways.

**INTEGRATION** · 05-27-2008 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by [email protected]

our W5W runs too hot for the Audi housing. On the A4 the plug is close to the lamp housing so does not allow the heat to dissipate well and can cause melting. Its better suited for the Japanese cars who traditionally have wider spaces in between the plug and plastic parts.

regards
Andreas

Copy/paste this to the FAQ-stickied thread please and lock

**ABanT** · 05-29-2008 02:26 PM

bump

**acidrome** · 05-29-2008 06:42 PM

Hey bro,
sad to say but this also happend to me. What I did was do the CC mod again, after taking the headlight cover completely off I used a small razor blade and slowly/carefully cut off all the melted plastic from the bulb n the housing perfectly. Then once I was fully able to remove the city light housing I took out the bulb with my hands/needle nose pliers and I then put in the OEM city light back in n tested it to see if the housing was alright. Sure enuff it was so...., I then popped it back in to the headlight housing n everthing worked PERFECT. Good Luck hope this helps. Atleast for me it did.

**ABanT** · 05-29-2008 07:13 PM

I've wanted to do the clear corner mod. But I'm too pu$$y to take the headlights apart. Maybe I have no choice now..

**acidrome** · 05-29-2008 09:03 PM

Yup. U have no choice my friend.... so i guess its a good thing. Dont be scared, tho i have done the cc mod several times, it should take less than 2 hours if it ur first time.