View Full Version : Bug in tail light ?!!?


UnFocused
12-22-2004, 07:18 PM
Looks like I have a visitor from Japan!!

I think somehow this bug got in my tailamp before it was installed on the car! I dont think it could have got in thier any other way?!?!

http://www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0VAAAAE4WTmuK8bCyb7hw4MC5J7ps22XYTomG3PnvsJwLKiuFn6CFNitCxstF92tOPuV!uRyK7EWZzVI4gZ3se6zuW7TeUReag3KzaUItHwbtVxrQfXIJjWDbkjMDhJNP/Dec%2021.%202004%20013.jpg?dc=4675502698204553583

http://www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0VADuAk8Wi2uK8bCyb7hw4MC5J7ps22XYuqGnxdKILEghWTUImkmKY3M7N0tKUdUBAbewr!Y8SF66c77G5Zcy9ll096R7abbi015FVS8LHuKD6dclK2zElCzIg4fyeV2M/Dec%2021.%202004%20014.jpg?dc=4675502698207607781

BoomBox757
12-22-2004, 07:23 PM
looks like you are going to have to take your tail lights apart

TheScionicMan
12-22-2004, 07:23 PM
Call the Customs Department...

UnFocused
12-22-2004, 07:24 PM
Yeah, I figured, but Im getting the TYC's asap, so when I take the bug ones out, I blow it out with a compressor, and hopefully that will get rid of my visitor....

TheScionicMan
12-22-2004, 07:29 PM
Just be sure to stomp it. Don't want to throw off the balance of the ecosystem. ;) It may have no natural predators here...

Joehnn
12-22-2004, 07:34 PM
I'd make your dealer take it out. :twisted:

Dirty
12-22-2004, 07:46 PM
Just be sure to stomp it. Don't want to throw off the balance of the ecosystem. ;) It may have no natural predators here...

it probably does not...but unless it's a sexual it shouldnt be a problem unless he brought a friend in the other tailight

jct
12-22-2004, 07:58 PM
if its still alive just use break clean on that little bugger

agi_jw
12-22-2004, 08:24 PM
HAHAHAHA, that is TOO FUNNY!!!! :-)

12-22-2004, 08:35 PM
Toyota should charge that guy for gettin a free ride to america and the INS should call that bug's family because he is gonna get sent back! :lol: Thats nasty though, finding a bug in your tailights. :D

Max2k
12-22-2004, 10:00 PM
Sweet! JDM insects!

UnFocused
12-22-2004, 10:24 PM
I'd make your dealer take it out. :twisted:

well beings that the nearest SCION dealership is 100 miles away, And I would have to go over a NASTY mountain pass to get thier ( nasty gravel on the roads= rock chip city!)- Im not headed thier anytime soon!

Has anyone created an "how-to" on removing the tailamps? I know thier is the two bolts, and you remove the harness first- but I learn best form pictures!

05camoxb
12-22-2004, 10:55 PM
I'd make your dealer take it out. :twisted:

well beings that the nearest SCION dealership is 100 miles away, And I would have to go over a NASTY mountain pass to get thier ( nasty gravel on the roads= rock chip city!)- Im not headed thier anytime soon!

Has anyone created an "how-to" on removing the tailamps? I know thier is the two bolts, and you remove the harness first- but I learn best form pictures!

lol at the bug..

http://www.dje2.com/gallery/sciontech05
I used this guy's page to help me install my TYC's.. Took me awhile to do it though since the upper bolt is in a very tight/crowded place. Good luck though.

stupidriver
12-22-2004, 11:02 PM
Wow, that really sucks. I would go back to the dealer and complain, they will probrobly take it out for free.

On the flip side of me, I would leave it in there and brag about it. :lol:

bBlover
12-22-2004, 11:10 PM
Is the bug still alive?

Da_BoX
12-23-2004, 12:00 AM
Toyota should charge that guy for gettin a free ride to america and the INS should call that bug's family because he is gonna get sent back! :lol: Thats nasty though, finding a bug in your tailights. :D
hahaha yea

Fujiz_xb
12-23-2004, 12:50 AM
i would frame him for car show purposes.

redneck69
12-23-2004, 02:25 AM
does he have a green card?

hnefrdo
12-23-2004, 02:35 AM
warrenty

dskize1
12-23-2004, 03:18 AM
Sweet! JDM insects!

put it on ebay!! :wink:

hotbox05
12-23-2004, 03:29 AM
yeah genuine jdm light bug.

UnFocused
12-23-2004, 04:37 AM
no, its dead! well if I dont get the TYC's for christmas, Ill be ording them the day after!

firesquare
12-23-2004, 01:08 PM
I'd make your dealer take it out. :twisted:
theyll probably do it too LOL

i know we had to order antoher taillight for a 745Li customer

those taillights arent cheap either

600 a piece :shock:

BoomBox757
12-23-2004, 06:15 PM
why?

MattyRattyPoo
12-23-2004, 06:36 PM
Call border pratrol!!! We got an illegal alien from Japan!!

firesquare
12-23-2004, 08:03 PM
why?

look at a 745Li and youll see its all LED and Hella manufactures them. and their is software in them i beleve too. dont ask all BMW's are over designed

BoomBox757
12-23-2004, 08:08 PM
no i mean why did you have to replace it?

Beantowntc
12-23-2004, 08:08 PM
somebody was probably eating lunch when they assembled your tailight haha

firesquare
12-23-2004, 08:13 PM
its what the customer wanted. and we are not gonna take a taillight apart just for a bug. its all about money and time

firesquare
12-23-2004, 08:14 PM
well actually its what we told the customer. it was a big azz moth too. but we told her it would be bettter if we replaced the whole entire bulb. she paid for the part and labor

BoomBox757
12-23-2004, 08:17 PM
ohh so it was also a bug

squirrel
12-23-2004, 08:18 PM
I'd frame it w/ the vehicle spec/pricing sheet!

the_saint
12-23-2004, 10:21 PM
Call the Customs Department...
And the Department of the Interior too. Just don't let Greenpeace or PETA know, they might have a cow, man.

KevinxB
12-23-2004, 11:55 PM
Foreign bugs have rights too! :D

firesquare
12-24-2004, 03:11 AM
some of the new BMWS we recieve and i PDI i find monsterous german spiders! i mean the fuzzy type of spiders!

KevinxB
12-24-2004, 03:35 AM
That would be where I draw the line.

the_saint
12-24-2004, 07:04 AM
Foreign bugs have rights too! :D
some of the new BMWS we recieve and i PDI i find monsterous german spiders! i mean the fuzzy type of spiders!
That would be where I draw the line.
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