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Old 11-03-2011, 03:15 PM   #1
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Help: Something To hold HID Bulb [PICs]

I was changing my HID bulb in my headlight unit when a mechanism which holds it in place broke.

The bulb itself fits into a tube:



and it is this mechanism which holds the bulb in place, it looks like this:


I called the dealership and they said that I can't just buy that one component, I would have to buy the whole headlamp ($1500), but this is unreasonable for the one component.

Good thing is that the lamp casing itself has a cap which covers the bulb, the tube and the ignitor. My question is, is there something high heat resistant which I can buy and stick to the headlight cap to push the bulb in place so it doesn't move?

To clarify about the cap and where it needs to push:
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