Well, I needed to remove my bumper for headlight clearing.

My searching only brought old threads and lots of X's ..

So, I hope this helps anyone looking


1.) I started with removing the plastic upper beam cover in the engine bay:

( circled approximately where the 6 or 7 clips are to pop out for removal.)



2.) Once the cover is off you need to remove 3 bolts located below it (circled):



3.) Now, below the bumper (underneath) you see 2 bumper clips to pop out (red) and four screws (blue):



4.) Getting the bumper off requires some careful, but with force, pulling it off.
I did it alone, so I put a blanket under in case it came off faster than anticipated

Starting with one corner just tugging it out and then once one side is started you’ll find the other side comes much easier. Place it safely down



5.) Now for the Headlights:



they sit on a beam (red), below the beam there are 3 bolts to remove (blue). above there are 2 to remove, hold the lamp from below as you do this as it will fall off if you don't.
Then just unplug the lamps from behind and you're done.

6.) Lamps themselves are straightforward other than removing the HID bulb you'll need a T20 security, like a regular Hex T20, but with the hole in it.



Once off, the bulb, ballast, and wiring can all be removed.



Nate

 

Beautiful! A must for the archives! helps a lot! thanks.

 

Very informative, thanx!

 

Nice illustrated write-up.. Thank you..

 

nate: are you running Momo Quasar 2's?? I'd like to see a better pic of the wheel.

 

WOW! What a pain in the balls...But if the end effect is what you want....Nice job on the step by step methodology

 

sent it pm

 

Nate damn now your gonna make me go and buy ink for my printer. Very informative and precise I was wondering how to do this when I do mine. thanks you sirs

 

glad to be of any help

the pics should be staying at that server for quite awhile.

 

What's the end result? Any before & after shots?

 

end result will look like this:



I'll post pics when I can.