Does anyone know how to take our headlights apart???

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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 11:17 AM
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Does anyone know how to take our headlights apart???

I want to paint my housing black but I don't know how to take it apart? Any of you done it that can give me instructions?
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 11:48 AM
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 02:07 PM
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hey thanks a lot for the instructions, but is it hard to take the headlights out? I looked in my book of how to do everything on my car but i can t find the instructions how to do that.
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Old Dec 12, 2003 | 04:12 PM
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Originally posted by vas25tl
hey thanks a lot for the instructions, but is it hard to take the headlights out? I looked in my book of how to do everything on my car but i can t find the instructions how to do that.
Its a royal pain in the @$$. Took me and my dad (we're pretty good at this stuff) about 2 hours to replace one headlight. We had all the tools and everything, you spend more time carefully wiggling it out of place and wiggiling it back in place.
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Old Dec 17, 2003 | 02:01 PM
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You need to take off the bumper cover and then the actual bumper. It's only hard the first time.

There's 2 bolts by each fenderwell. 4 under the car and 5-7 plastic screws by the grill. Slide the whole bumper cover off.

The bumper has 3 bolts on each side and one plastic screw on the bottom passenger side. Then each headlight has 6 bolts.

Good luck!
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Old Dec 17, 2003 | 07:33 PM
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how do you put the headlights back together?
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Old Dec 18, 2003 | 08:49 AM
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thanks a lot guys, im going to try to do that next week, by the way, anyone ever heard of formx?
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