2003 CLS - broken headlight assembly on passenger side. Have replacement, but can not figure out how to get to the bolts/fasteners. Please help.

 

you have to take the entire front bumper off and there are 2 screws sitting horizontally underneath the light attached to this metal bracket + the 2 screws at the top of the light, and one i believe at the side of the light.
Taking the bumper off isnt that hard, but those plastic screws/ plugs will most likely brake (i broke a whole bunch when i did it) so either be very carefull or have replacements ready.

 

Never would have thought of that, thank you. And I thought that the vette was hard to work on!

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=183710

check this out for more help.

 

no problemoooooo, and yea look at the thread big lizard posted, it shouldnt take u long at all

 

thanks to both of you, I'm heading for the garage as soon as the coffee kicks....

 

I can't believe you have to take the whole bumper off for the headlight assembly. Crazy! I get condensation in my driver side and was thinking of replacing. From what I'm reading it appears that the 03 assembly is different from 01-02?

 

no it should be the same, 03's fit on 01's direct bolt on, search the threads for condensation before u buy a new light, some people had theirs replaced by acura, and some people made little tools to clean up the water inside, it seems to be pretty common.

 

That was a great post and I finished it up in less that 2 hours. Two added observations:
1. I used a 3/8" drive and phillips socket to loosen/remove the three large flat headed connectors in the floor of the grill shell
2. the phillips screws at the trailing top edge of the bumper in the whell well are also 8mm and I used a socket driver to get those out - lots easier that a phillips screw driver.

Thanks for the help, Steve