My headlight is really dim so I need to replace the bulb. How do I do this?

 

i have a 96.... so im not positive if its the same it shoud be ...its wortha try.. ok uhm when you open your hood you can see the back of your head lights.. now where you see the wheres comming out of the harness thats where your bulbs are.. if you look in that area you'll see a plastic " O- ring type thing " around the wire harness you can unscrew it until it becouse loose i think it kinda pops when you loosen it enough... now pull out you bulb by twisting un til it comes out.. it should twist only about half turn... then you can pull it out.. you can disconed it from the harness you could see theres a little clip holding the bulb to the harnes just push the clip tab down and pull it out... it might be a lil tough but it should come out... now when you put the new ones in do the revers.. what ever you do, DO NOT TOUCH THE BUlbls glass.. human fingers have natual oil on tehm so if you touch the bulb when you put it in and turn it on it will explode beacause the oil will get very hot... let me know if you got it ask anything if you need.

oH yea.. try starting on the passenger side its much easyer i think since its more open.. th drivers side more cluterd so its hard to get in there

GOOD LUCK

 

wow thx.. i have a 95 and lets hope it isnt that much diff.. i have replaced headlights on diff cars before but on this accord i kept getting mad at it cuz i thought it was just a twist and it comes out.. but from what u said theres something holding it on...

thx for the clarification..

 

Basically what he said. I have a 96 also but it should be the same. You just twist the ring thing to loosen it then twist and pull the bulb out. I found chaning it on the driver side to be easier. On the passenger side you have to pull that thing out of the airbox that is in the way. It just snaps out if you pull up then you can get to that part. Atleast that is how it is on my 96 EX. Are you putting stock bulbs back in or are you putting differnt bulbs in this time?

 

I'm just changing the driver side bulb because it became very dim for some reason. I will just go to autozone or some place and get whatever they recommend. I hope that will be stock.

Thanks for the instructions.

 

you may as well buy 2.....with my 95 whenever one goes bad, the other one goes bad very shortly after i replace the first. this is also true of taillights.

 

oh yea.. haha it probably is harder on the passenger side...but i have a cai so there no box for me its all open sorry about that..

btw.. mayeb you should just replace both of you lights since most light bulbs come in pairs. you should also look into getting sum nice white lights. it give your accord a "classy feel" lol i think a good brand to get are silverstars but im not positive.. can any recomend any nice bright bulbs that look good and give good light?

 

That o-ring thingy is a son of a b**ch to twist off. I had to unbolt the windshield wiper valve to get leverage. Before I went to buy pliers to help get it off, I checked the fuse (becuase the bulb was only dim). Well what would you guess? Someone had removed the Left Headlight fuse and placed it on the ECU fuse slot (car was in the shop last week due to non-start). GRRRR

Note to remember: check fuse if light is only dim

 

awWW man that suck sorry about that... i know hwo you feel .. its so hard to find good mechanics these days... i had sum work doe on my car recently and it was in the shop for 2 weeks... when i got it i was so happy.. i took it from the shop and took it home withough checking under the hood... on my way home when i got on the freeway... i noticed that my car sounded and fealt a bit differnt.... so i imediatly got off the freeway and check under the hod.. and i saw that my intake was totaly disconected from the intake manifold... the mechanic had to take off the intak to do sum work but when he put it back instead of using both hose clamps to keep it on he only used one.... when theres suposed to be two!.. i was so pissed my engine couldve been screwwed withouht a filter... later that week i found the second hose clamp down in my engine bay when i was changing the oil... the dumb *** didnt bother to look for it when he dropped it

 

I hear you, it sux for us as the customer. However, I do give the mechanics a little bit of slack. A friend of mine helped me take the starter out to have it checked and there were so many things to unhook just to get to it. It took both of use to remember all the little pieces that had to go back on. Just imagine if a mechanic had to work on several cars and take breaks in between.

I'm starting to consider the idea of taking pictures on my digital camera before I take it to the shop next time. I had so many things done to my previous honda at one point the windshield wiper tank was gone. To this day I wonder when it disappeared :D

 

94-97 should be the same way to change light bulbs are you headlights fogged up or bulb is old ?

 

it was a missing fuse. I explained above