easy bulb replacement

[HAWKE]

is there a make of car where it is a quick and easy job to replace bulbs in the headlights without it being a garage job. the next car i buy i will ask the salesman to show me if it cant be done in 5 min i wont bother buying

[nescio]

It is a fairly straightforward job on most cars, BUT......
a few years ago, I needed to change a headlight bulb on a Vauxhall Zafira (W reg). As luck would have it, I was passing a Vauxhall dealer, so I got the replacement bulb there and tried to fit it. I had to go back in and ask if someone was taking the you know what. According to the owner's manual, all you have to do is unplug the lead, rotate the bulb holder and remove it, insert new bulb,and replace. This would be fine, were it not for the fact that the indicator light assembly is smack bang up against the back of the headlamp bulb holder, making access, let alone removal, impossible.
It took me and a Vauxhall fitter (!!) over 25 minutes to replace the bulb, which involved removing the indicator light assembly, part of the air ducting, holding the ducting housing out of the way so the fitter could get his hand in to remove the old headlamp bulb..............

[sigma]

Any pre 1960's car shouldn't be a problem changing the headlight bulb such as a Ford popular or Bullnose Morris. Even earlier and it would have acetylene lights so the problem won't arise.

[Toureman]

Your Vauxhall is pretty easy to change then, on my Laguna the front bumper has to be removed !

It is law on the continent that you have to carry a new bulb set with you so that a headlight bulb can be replaced as soon as it blows, how many drivers carry enough tools and have the knowledge to remove a bumper at night on a mortorway hard shoulder in the rain to do that?

[HAWKE]

I was thinking of a more uptodate model not a vintage class