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Old Feb 18, 2007 | 03:09 PM
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Hello,
I am having trouble changing my head light bulbs, I followed the intructions in the owners manual but its not working the way it said. How do I get the head light assembly out after unscrewing the two bolts?
 
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Old Feb 18, 2007 | 04:49 PM
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you have to take off the bolts going across the top of the bumper. its an 8mm bolt then when you have the 2 bolts off the headlight have someone pull back the bumper(dont worry it wont break) and then wiggle it out.
 
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Old Feb 18, 2007 | 04:50 PM
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and those 2 bolts are longer than hell.
 
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Old Feb 18, 2007 | 06:36 PM
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yea but theres not much thread i actually just took off some headlights yesterday on my friends srt to replace his fogs
 
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Old Feb 19, 2007 | 03:00 AM
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Yeah...and those bolts are pretty weak. I broke the head off one of mine. Btw...I hate taking the headlights out of my car, its such a bitch to do. Even with taking those screws out of the bumper and pulling it back.
 
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Old Feb 19, 2007 | 03:27 AM
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are u changing the bulb or the whole headlight
 
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Old Feb 19, 2007 | 03:39 AM
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Well I don't know about you...but the drivers side is pretty hard to do if you have the stock air box in there. So unless you have a cai you pretty much have to take it out.
 
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Old Feb 19, 2007 | 08:57 PM
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Yeah...and those bolts are pretty weak. I broke the head off one of mine. Btw...I hate taking the headlights out of my car, its such a bitch to do. Even with taking those screws out of the bumper and pulling it back.
Couldnt agree more.
 
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Old Feb 20, 2007 | 01:33 AM
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its easy i just changed mine the other day.
 
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Old Feb 20, 2007 | 04:31 PM
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yea changing the bulbs are a bitch because you can't really do it without taking the headlight out..and those screws are really long, not much thread but you have to pull it through two different threads... i thought it was going to be easy, but you also have to be careful b/c wiggling out the headlight you can scratch the paint.. (i did a little that's why i'm telling you) lucky for me, it was right before my bumper was replaced...

good luck!
 
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