Side Marker Bulb fell into housing

[Groovicles]

Fuck my life. I was replacing the halogen side marker lights with LEDs and one of the LED bulbs fell off it's harness and dropped into the housing. Does anyone know if any intelligent ways of getting the stupid thing out or do I need to disassble the entire fucking truck to get it? Looking for ideas from people smarter than me!

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[Lricaud81]

I changed my headlights to sylverstar ultras and my dumb ass dropped my factory bulb in the housing. Long story short well I couldn't get my hand in there to get it out and couldn't see it from outside so umm yeah its still in there. Lmao.

 

[Eskram]

If you have one of those handy grabber things, try that. https://a.co/d/6XuyldB

If not, dissemble and shake?

 

[Groovicles]

I changed my headlights to sylverstar ultras and my dumb ass dropped my factory bulb in the housing. Long story short well I couldn't get my hand in there to get it out and couldn't see it from outside so umm yeah its still in there. Lmao.

Yup, I understand. I had to remove the entire passenger headlight housing and spent nearly 30 minutes trying to shake the stupid LED the size of my thumb nail out. Not particularly complicated removing the headlight housing other than there's like a million plugs and you need to take off part of the bumper cover and the grill to get to actually removing the unit. Beginning to end took about 1.5 hours by myself and a lot of cursing.

 

[Lricaud81]

Yup, I understand. I had to remove the entire passenger headlight housing and spent nearly 30 minutes trying to shake the stupid LED the size of my thumb nail out. Not particularly complicated removing the headlight housing other than there's like a million plugs and you need to take off part of the bumper cover and the grill to get to actually removing the unit. Beginning to end took about 1.5 hours by myself and a lot of cursing.

Yeah I had some choice words trying to put my hand in there to grab it. I even had my wife trying to no avail. I told my wife screw it I'm leaving it. Lol. If it starts being a problem or vibrating in the wind drive me crazy I'll take assembly off and try again. Been there not quite a year now lol

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