I got some cracks in the plastic of my headlights for an 04 350z. Got some new ones ready to go but cant find a tutorial or any kind of advice for installing these. I know in order to change a bulb in this pos you need to pull off the wheels and do it through the wheel well, so im ready for this project to be a huge pain in the ass.
Any body have any experience with installing headlights on this thing?
REMOVING THE FRONT BUMPER
- Open up your hood and remove 6 clips on top of your bumper with a flat head screwdriver.
- Under your car has (8)10mm screws that need to be remove with a 10mm socket wrench
- Where you fender and bumper touch, on each side has a 10mm screws. Remove them.
- From inside, under the headlight should have (2)10mm screws. Remove them
- The front bumper should come right off, if not please double check for any left over screws that may have not come off.
REMOVING THE HEADLIGHTS AND WIRE (HID)
- There are (4) 10mm screws that need to be remove with 10mm socket wrench.
- Once you pull out the headlights, remove the wire clip that hold it and everything should be completely out.
- Behind the headlights has a weather seal to protect the bulbs. Remove that by turning counter-clock wise
- Since my Z has HID, on the bottom should be the ballast that need to be remove using a phillip screwdriver (3 screws each side)
- Unclip the ballast and remove the wire from it.
- Remove all turns/parking light bulbs.
- Remove the HID bulbs and wire using a screwdriver. Including the wire clip that hold down the bulb. BEWARE!!! REMEBER HOW IT IS PLACE. Putting it back is a pain for me.
you rock. thanks man.
no problemo
I just did this on a customers car a couple weeks ago… I did his housings black and then said I would install them… I had no idea it required taking the entire damn bumper off to do it… what a f%cking retarded design by Nissan on that one…
It takes oh I dunno 15 minutes?
WAHHHHHHHHH.
my acura was the same way. Pretty normal these days