The 2012 Subaru I have to change the low beam bulbs you have to jack up the
corner of the car (and why replace just 1, they have been in there the same
amount of time), remove wheel, remove fender liner just to get to where you
can see the cover that has the bulb behind it. Even then it is quite a
reach to touch it, and of course you can't see and reach it at the same
time. But there is another way. This only requires you to remove the front
bumper cover (by removing about 2 dozen connectors,some screws, some
plastic plugs), then remove the light housings. You can then replace all of
the front bulbs easily. While you have them out is a good time to buff of
the hazziness on the front cover. Not a bad day's work by this time. But
now you get to put it all back together agajn. Hope you replaced the
regular bulbs with LEDs so it will be long enough for you forget what it
took to do it the first time.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 19:51 K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us> wrote:
> My first clue was with a 2001 Corolla. A headlight bulb burned out while
> I was on the road, spare in the glove box. No problem, right? Wrong! It
> takes a socket wrench to remove a bracket in the way. Now I carry one,
> but that car is long gone, and I'm sure it's much, much worse now.
>
> 73,
> Scott K9MA
>
>
> On 4/19/2021 7:21 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> > "My favorite example is my mother-in-laws Nissan Murano. Requires the
> > engine to be dropped to change the plugs!!"
> >
> > My old '03 Taurus. Disconnect, and drop everything in front of the
> > windshield to put in struts. Not surprisingly, the years of
> > documentation, and videos, even the factory service manuals skip this
> > part. "Here's the old struts!" Cut to next page, or scene, "Here's
> > the new ones installed!" Took me four jacks at $100 a pop, ~six
> > months time, and $750 for struts (I bent one), almost busted an axle,
> > too. The kiloBuck, and half-day at Les Schwab was sounding better by
> > the minute, but I thought, hey, I'll save a few bucks... Ironically,
> > about a month later, I found an obscure video where one guy said, but
> > did not show, "You'll have to lower the engine, and transmission
> > carrier to do this."
> >
> > Kurt
> >
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