Because the introduction of halogen headlights in the early 1980s, manufacturers annex been using less time and bounteous complicated procedures to exchange headlights, and there is no usual procedure for replacing these lights. The Saturn Vue, on the contrary, has one of the simpler headlight replacement procedures.
Instructions
1. Place the side-marker clear meeting retaining bolt at the top corner of the meeting.5. Remove the wire harness connexion from the back of the headlight. Use the screwdriver to lift the locking tabs on the socket connection, if necessary.
2. Transmit to the headlight meeting and remove the assembly retaining bolts with a ratchet and a socket.
3. Involve the straightedge screwdriver into the inconsiderable opening at the top of the headlight meeting. Be definite the screwdriver fits (whether it doesn't, apply a smaller one). Assign the screwdriver fini the opening and then into the headlight meeting retaining bracket.
4. Push the locking tab of the headlight assembly retaining bracket In relation to the engine compartment to unlock it. Lift the headlight assembly retaining bracket up and remove the headlight meeting from its cavity.
Remove the bolt with a ratchet and a socket. Wiggle the side-marker meeting elsewhere from the Vue until the meeting is removed from its cavity. Turn the side-marker glowing socket and wire harness connexion a quarter turn counterclockwise to remove the bulb from the meeting. Remove the meeting and store it in a unharmed residence where it Testament not acquire dropped or scratched. Turn the socket counterclockwise a quarter turn to remove it from the headlight assembly. Remove the old headlight.
6. Wear a latex glove on one or both of your hands to handle the new bulb. Oil on our skin will compromise or damage the glass bulb of halogen headlights in contacted. Insert the headlight by reversing the procedure. Test the headlight assembly in the cavity after the bulb and wire harness are installed, but before locking the headlight assembly retaining bracket.
7. Shut the lights off if the bulb is working properly and then continue reversing the procedure to replace the headlight and side-marker light assemblies.
