Car beeped at me this morning telling me the drivers side brake light's given up the ghost, so swung by Halfords on the way home from work and picked up a pair using the crazy difficult card thing and the help of a young lady.

Looking on here as I was wondering what level of effort changing the bulbs was and have seen references to the brake bulbs being a single filament bulb? The ones I've picked up (from the referency thingie) seem to be dual filament - says 12v 21/5w

So mainly two questions; a) did I trust a piece of cardboard too much and get the wrong ones and, if not, how much of a bother is changing the brakelight bulbs and is it something I can do before work tomorrow or should leave until the weekend when I have lots of time that combines with sunlight?

My Fabia book says P21W (single filament) bulb for brakelight; the parking light / rear fog is a dual filament P21/4W. Replacing rear bulbs looks ok, but haven't had to do it yet.

takes 3 mins to fit....you just pull the carpet back, unclip the "light holder" from the rear light, and take out the offending bulb.

Then fit the new bulb, clip back into place, and put carpet back neatly!

the manual includes a guide on how to do it as well

Ar5es, seems it's the wrong bulb then. Will have to grab another tomorrow. Cheers guys.

I believe you can get the dual filement bulbs to fit where the single filement ones would.... i.e they will only go in one way round..... stick it in , then test to see if its bright enough , then you know if you've got it in the right way round

I always end up with the dual filament lamp and have no problems the pins are keyed so the right wattage is used two minute job

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