Last week my right headlight would work for about 30 seconds and then go off. I'm old school, so a burned out headlight is a burned out headlight and won't work under any circumstances. Not so with the new stuff on my '17 Citadel. So this anomaly naturally makes me worried about a electronic gremlin that will drain my wallet when I take it to the dealer. They ran a quickie diagnosis and found a fault somewhere in the right front wiring harness. Now I'm having visions of hundreds of dollar worth of labor to repair a simple problem. UGH!
Luckily I was wrong. The tech narrowed the problem to a bad bulb or a bad ballast, neither is a cheap fix: $400 for the bulb or $800 for the ballast.. Final answer: the bill came to just over $400 and included a $270(!) bulb and $130 in labor and diagnosis.
I'm just another geezer trying to adjust to a alien world, and I just find it amazing how sophisticated and expensive cars are these days. Back in the day you'd buy a headlight at the auto parts store for $4.98 and spend 10-15 minutes installing it and think nothing of it. How times have changed.

 

Yup , you probably have HID bulbs and ballasts . If you had the simple halogen bulb setup on the cheaper models the bulb probably would have been $30 tops for the halogen bulb .

 

that's too much for bulbs

 

Agreed. But what choice is there?