Well I am now the proud owner of a 14-reg Freelander (not the one I posted in my other thread about - found a better one with full service history).

Inside the bottom edge of the headlights there is quite a bit of broken glass from light bulbs which have presumably exploded (I saw this in quite a few of the Freelanders I looked at). Does anyone have a good method for cleaning this out, other than the heat up in the oven and remove front cover method which is a bit scary.

Can you not remove the headlamp, take the bulb out and give it a good shake up? Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
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Thanks, I've had them off but seems I can only redistribute the glass inside the headlamp. Actually getting it out seems very hard as the only opening is for the indicator bulb. They are halogen signature ones so LED sidelight and projector lens over the main beam bulb. I will have another poke around inside them.

As a thought could you get at the bits with a vacuum cleaner and suck them out ? MY13 HSE Lux Santorini Black Gone
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above is a video that shows, the dismantling of the inner headlamp. you may have to skip to the interested part.

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Maybe you can take the glass of after "baking" them in a oven... Like they do here: https://youtu.be/w_2nugkpMAE.

grumsel, I think you mean this video, latter part of it..... from 7min 30 secs



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I've spent a good couple of hours doing this after both bulbs shattered in my headlights. Best method I found in the end was to remove the headlights from the car and take off the rear cover, remove what was left of the bulb holders, then shake out all the glass shards and fragments I could over a towel or sheet. After that I used a vacuum cleaner hose with a drinking straw taped to the nozzle, together with a long handled soft paintbrush to try and dislodge most of the remaining bits of glass.

I managed to get most of the glass out although there are still some tiny bits left right in the edges of the headlight assembly, which I guess I'll just live with. Bloody annoying though!

Thanks, I was thinking about vacuum cleaners and drinking straws or maybe a bit of that pvc tube used for homebrew. Will experiment and feed back the results... I just wondered if I was the only one with this problem.

What about making up balls of something like Blu Tac and rolling them around inside after the vacuum they may pick up what’s left.

So I have had one of the headlights out again to replace a blown bulb and it is not like the one in the video - the video one does not seem to have the headlamp levelling mechanism inside the headlight, which on mine involves a beige coloured plastic thing across the back of the lamp/reflector, this obscures the screws where he removes the lens on the video.

Are there any projector headlamp dismantling experts on here? I can't work out how the levelling mechanism would come apart to allow the reflector / lens to be removed as he does it in the video.

This screenshot of a youtube video shows the levelling part, though mine has a different shaped actuator motor to this (top left of this pic)