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open the hood. look at the headlight assembly. on the back of it there should be a connector with 2 or 3 wires on it. disconnect it. next unscrew the bulb lock mechanism and pull out the bulb. careful not to touch the glass part of the old bulb or new bulb because you fingers will leave a residue which shortens the life of the bulb.
take bulb out from behind light assembly, under hood. look for wires that is connected to light, this is where the bulb comes out.
Electricity goes through the "electrical foot contact", heats up the wires (connected to the tungsten filament) therefore lighting the light bulb up. The filament is supported by wires. The glass mount holds up the two wires connected to the filament. That is how I think the light bulb works. Have a look.
Electricity goes through the "electrical foot contact", heats up the wires (connected to the tungsten filament) therefore lighting the light bulb up. The filament is supported by wires. The glass mount holds up the two wires connected to the filament. That is how I think the light bulb works. Have a look.
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lift the hood. look down towards the back side of headlight. you will see a socket with wires running off to the wiring harness. get hold of socket and twist. left or right, whichever way it turns. pull socket out and you will see bulb. pull bulb out of socket.put shop gloves on, and insert new bulb in socket. then replace socket in headlight fixture. if you touch new bulb with bare fingers. the oil in your skin will make bulb explode when you turn lights on.
If memory serves, and it's been awhile since I had to do this, you do it from the inside. If you look under the hood at the back of the headlight there are some wires coming out. The wires attach to a molded plastic thingie which can be removed and which houses the bulb itself. IHTH.
Look here:How_do_you_replace_a_2001_Subaru_Forester_headlight_bulbIf you touch the glass of the bulb, wipe it off with a paper towel soaked with isopropyl alcohol. This is because oils from your skin will cause the bulb to break when it gets hot.
Typically, you find the bulb with the red tip and replace it with a regular bulb. The red tipped bulb is a flasher bulb. Unfortunately, not all flasher bulbs are marked with a red tip. In that case (assuming your lights are controlled by a flasher bulb and not some other method), you'll need to go through each bulb to find the bulb that doesn't look like the others. A regular bulb will have two connecting wires and a filament between them. The flasher bulb has an extra wire touching one of the connecting wires. I'd expect that the flasher bulb would be the first or last bulb on the string.
If you cant get to it from the front, you will probably have to look from the back and see where the wires connect to the back. Then you should be able to unscrew the fixture from the plastic and replace the bulb.
Just did this on my 1998 Mazda 626 ES it goes as follows:-From the outside of the trunk look above the license plate.-Use a screw driver to pry out the light fixture by sliding it left or right then tilting it out of the hole.-From the top of the light fixture twist the bulb assembly out of the fixture.-If the auto shop sold you the whole bulb assembly then just twist the new one back in and you are good.-If the auto shop sold you just the bulb, you need to unhook the bulb wires off of the bulb assembly and even scrape them off of inside the metal plate they are hooked around to get the bulb out.-Unbend the wires on your new bulb so that they stick out below the bulb.-Insert the bulb straightened wires first into the assembly.-From the back of the assembly where the wires now stick out, bend the wires over the metal plate in the same fashion that the old ones were.-If you have some solder it won't hurt to tack this wire down. I didn't and my lights work (so far).
It is small and round at the top and thin at the bottom it has various wires inside of the lightbulb.You can see them because the lightbulb is translucent.