Both headlamp bulbs went. I bought new ones and set about changing them. What does the handbook say? It says take it to the dealer, so they can charge you £70 an hour labour for changing a lightbulb. Halfords, which normally will change a bulb for a fiver, wont do a Scenic. Why? Because you're supposed to take half of the car apart to get at the bulbs! Now that's poor.
Actually, it turned out to be perfectly possible, and I have a scar on the back of my hand to prove it.
For the offside (drivers side), if you have flexible hands, you can just move the washer filler out of the way by unclipping it, and (by feel only, not sight) reach round to unclip, twist, remove, replace, twist, and clip, and hey presto, you've saved yourself a trip to the garage.
The nearside is much less fun. There is no access to that bulb without removing the fusebox cover. It's still very difficult to do but it is possible. I did it! It was a combination of a feeling of victory with immense irritation at the impossibly bad french design.
Not user friendly.
Not a happy owner.
But at least I have 2 working headlamps again. And a scar. (Really).
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