Crap-tastic VW paperclip that holds in my headlight lamp

I’m no auto mechanic, but 30 minutes to replace a headlight lamp on my Volkswagen Golf is frikin’ ridiculous.

It’s bad enough that you have to completely remove the battery just to have room to open the back of the headlight casing. What really got to me was this flimsy little paperclip holding the actual bulb in place.

After removing the battery – and the other chunks of plastic between me and the headlight – I fiddled with this stupid paperclip and the wires wrapped around it until it finally popped out of place and dropped below the car. It took another 10 minutes to squeeze my hand in far enough to get the paperclip rigging back into its place.

Frustrating as hell!

I remember replacing the headlight in my old Nissan pickup took 5 minutes max. Just a simple twisting plastic lock.

Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of things I love about my VW, but it is so typical of them to over-complicate something as simple as a lightbulb.