No tool i am aware of. The pieces become brittle with age and are almost impossible to dissasemble and reuse the retiners. Plan on getting new ones. New ones go together fairly easy.

Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Date: Thursday, February 9, 2006 3:40 am
Subject: Is there a tool for safely taking apart headlight assemblies?

> They must have some sort of 3-prong tool to take these headlights
> apart w/o
> destroying the plastic retainers. I've taken them out with small
> screwdriver's and needle nose pliers but looks like there is a
> specific tool
> for these. Anybody know what the VW special tool # is?
>
> TIA,
> --
> BenT
>