How do you change headlights on a 1999 Grand AM GT?

Answer 1

Squeeze the tab on the light socket at the back where the wires connect to and pull it out. Then make a half turn on the lamp holder and it comes off with the bulb. Replace the bulb without touching the glass part in the new bulb. Your fingerprints on the glass may cause over heating in the bulb. Replacement is the opposite of the removal. It took me only 10 min.

Answer 2

There are a couple bolts that hold the plastic by the light down, you undo those and then There are two upsidedown L-shaped clips on each side of the light. You take all the plastic clips off that you need to . You will be able to see them. They hold the plastic around the light down. then you pull the L-shaped clips up and out. then you pull the light out, unplug the old light then put the new light in and plug it in. then put back together.

Answer 3

Open the hood. Standing in front of the car, there are two screws on top of the headlight housing. I believe they are 8mm. When you remove them, the headlight assembly is loose and can be moved out far enough to reach the rear connectors on the lamps and bulbs contained in the headlight housing. Grasp the lamp connector at the back of the housing and turn in about 1/4 turn clockwise and remove the lamp. When installing the new lamp, don't touch the new lamp with your bare fingers. The oil from your fingers will cause the lamp to turn dark and shorten the life of the lamp. Install the new lamp and headlight assembly in the reverse order.

Answer 4

Two mounting screws need to come out in order to remove the headlight. They are the two, one on the right and one on the left of each headlight nearest the lens. The heads face upward, and require a torx screwdriver to turn them.

HOWEVER: The screw anchor, the metal piece the screw goes into, imbedded into the plastic at the bottom, may be stuck so tightly to the screw that turning the screw breaks the anchor free of the plastic, and you end up turning the screws all day to no avail.

I found no easy fix. Using an angle grinder, I had to grind the heads off the screws very carefully so as not to grind adjacent parts, pausing and blowing on them to cool them to keep the heat from melting the plastic, then pushing them down into the hole, and removing them from the bottom. To get access to the screw nearest the side of the car, you will have to remove the signal light. This is done by pulling it out toward the front of the vehicle. The signal light retaining tab (extending back from the light on the side nearest the headlight) needs to be pushed slightly toward the side of the car in order to free the signal light for removal).

The process of grinding etc. and the breaking out of the screw anchors did some damage to the mounting holes on the headlight reflector/lens assembly. I repaired it as follows:

For the bottom mounting holes, I used small cable ties to wrap around the plastic where the metal screw anchors had broken out. To get the cable tie to surround it I had to drill a hole through the plastic reinforcement. Then I could put the cable tie through that hole and could wrap it around the screw anchor support.

For the top holes where the plastic had broken so it would no longer surround the screw, I used some thin copper wire (such as from telephone wiring) to span the gap and complete the hole. I drilled two small holes through the plastic, about a half inch away from the mounting hole toward the lens, one toward the right and one toward the left of the hole. Before threading the wire through the holes I inserted a 10D Common Nail where the screw used to be, into the top hole and extending down to the bottom hole where it could be held in place by the cable tie. Then I threaded the wire through one of the small holes I had just drilled, around the nail, and back through the other drilled hole, then back through and around the nail a second time for added strength, pulled the wires as snugly as possible, and twisted them together. Now I could pull the nails out, put the headlight in place on the vehicle and reinsert the nails where the screws had been.

If you find the nails are a little loose the easy fix is to hold them in place with Duct Tape. For a better fix I did as follows: I cut off a short piece (1/2 to 3/4 inch) of an electrical cord, such as for a computer, removed the wires from inside it so it essentially became a short tube, and put it where the screw anchor had been, tightening it in place with the cable tie. The nail now had to be pushed firmly down into the tube which held it very firmly. This fix also prevents the headlights from having a wobble after remounting to the vehicle.

Answer 5

Theres two long bolts under the hood right on top of the light. You'll see the holes through the support bar. Then be careful, make sure you unplug the lights, and on the back housing of the light assembly there is a plastic stud which holds your light assembly onto your fender; Tilt the light forward to get that out, and just be careful. Then kind of push down on the bumper underneath the light because the light assembly has a lip on it that holds it behind the bumper. Then it should be out. Hope I helped.

Answer 6

remove 2 screws and lift bottom above bumper and slide out..

Answer 7

See my answer on 'How do you change the headlamp on a 2006 Dodge Stratus? Hope it helps ...