I learned a new bumper cover/headlight trick today!

[skylark]

I did something different today while installing headlights on dad's girlfriend's 07 camry. I've always completely removed the bumper cover but this time I just removed the two bolts in the fender and the bolts across the top of the bumper cover and then rotated the whole bumper cover down while still keeping it attached at the bottom. This was a pretty cool trick. It only took about 1/2 of an hour to replace both headlights! This may be common knowledge that i'm not aware of but it was new to me.

 

[454cid]

I did something different today while installing headlights on dad's girlfriend's 07 camry. I've always completely removed the bumper cover but this time I just removed the two bolts in the fender and the bolts across the top of the bumper cover and then rotated the whole bumper cover down while still keeping it attached at the bottom. This was a pretty cool trick. It only took about 1/2 of an hour to replace both headlights! This may be common knowledge that i'm not aware of but it was new to me.

Bumper cover to change headlights? I didn't think Toyota did stuff like that.... sounds more like an Audi.

 

[Drunkcanuk]

Bumper cover to change headlights? I didn't think Toyota did stuff like that.... sounds more like an Audi.

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Ram is almost as dumb!!!
Entire grill, plus housings, plus panels in the fender well to reach up blindly and pull a locking clip.
Never again will I buy a new vehicle without seeing how bulbs and batteries change out.

 

[skylark]

Bumper cover to change headlights? I didn't think Toyota did stuff like that.... sounds more like an Audi.

Two of the 3 headlight assembly bolts are covered by the bumper cover. My sister's 07 Accord and my wife's GTO are all the same way.

 

[skylark]

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Ram is almost as dumb!!!
Entire grill, plus housings, plus panels in the fender well to reach up blindly and pull a locking clip.
Never again will I buy a new vehicle without seeing how bulbs and batteries change out.

Almost as dumb? Nope, that is stupid.

 

[Dariusz Salomon]

Cause they don't want to allow"little people" to change their lightbulbs-they want to milk em in stealerships.

 

[Erik the Awful]

My '06 Mustang also.

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[someotherguy]

2014? F450 super doody with the 6.7 PSD. To change the headlight:

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Maybe it's easier on the gas trucks since there's a lot less crap under the hood. Dunno.

Stepdaughter's Subaru, you're supposed to drop the bumper cover off it and take the headlight housings out. Nah.. you can peel back the wheelwell liner instead, and get right to the dust cover on the back of the housing.

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A little tough to see what you're doing to unclip it, but also to get the new capsule back in there and clipped without touching the glass and contaminating it.

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Both low beams replaced in an hour or less, and that included the trip to the parts store to buy them.

Richard

 

[Drunkcanuk]

2014? F450 super doody with the 6.7 PSD. To change the headlight:

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Maybe it's easier on the gas trucks since there's a lot less crap under the hood. Dunno.

Stepdaughter's Subaru, you're supposed to drop the bumper cover off it and take the headlight housings out. Nah.. you can peel back the wheelwell liner instead, and get right to the dust cover on the back of the housing.

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A little tough to see what you're doing to unclip it, but also to get the new capsule back in there and clipped without touching the glass and contaminating it.

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Both low beams replaced in an hour or less, and that included the trip to the parts store to buy them.

Richard

Now try peeling back fender liners when they are packed with snow and ice, and you break a half dozen fasteners that are $15 a piece!! Lol
Oh ya....and it's about -30, good times.

 

[someotherguy]

Now try peeling back fender liners when they are packed with snow and ice, and you break a half dozen fasteners that are $15 a piece!! Lol
Oh ya....and it's about -30, good times.

She'd been driving it on high beams for a couple months already (someone told her it would cost $400 to replace the low beam capsules); that's plenty of time to outlast any freezing weather we get down here.

All told it was about $35 but a few of the stupid panel push pins did break, as expected. I've got a ridiculous array of them in my toolbox but none of them seem to belong to any vehicle I've ever worked on.

Richard