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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:15 pm 
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Hey Fellas,

Trying to remove the headlights on my AU1 Forte. The bastards won't come off... There seems to be a bolt I can't see holding it in at the bottom where the grill was clipped on. What'd I miss?


Maybe a step-by-step guide would be easiest, but I think that I've got the rest of the bolts.


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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:32 pm 
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Have you checked the car manual? There should hopefully be a diagram in there somewhere, hopefully it helps. But I think GlenAUII might be the best to talk to about the head light problem, he seems to be an AU guru :D

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:34 pm 
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There is a 2 bolts on the top one on the botom were the airbox is and the other one is hard to get to its behind the bumper bar. I got it by removing the grill and sticking my hand in there.

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:50 pm 
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u dont need to remove the front bumber if you have a socket wrench. i only removed my headlights 2 days ago and had the same problem, was a b**ch

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:54 pm 
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au man wrote:
There is a 2 bolts on the top one on the botom were the airbox is and the other one is hard to get to its behind the bumper bar. I got it by removing the grill and sticking my hand in there.



Thanks mate, was exactly right.... I didn't post straight away cos I read it and went straight back out and did it...



Thank you!!!
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:55 am 
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Theres four bolts on each headlight. Its easier if you remove the bumper but they're able to be forced out without hurting anything. Its unclipping everything off the back of them that give me the s**t..
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:36 pm 
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i wanna take mine off to dry them out.

anyone else had seriously condensed up lights?

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:28 pm 
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Yep, that's why i took mine out. I just bought some aftermarket ones and put them in, as I dried them out 4 times. if you just want to dry them out, just take the headlight bulb out and leave the boot off, and park it in the sun, it'll take about 20-30 mins to dry the headlight out... Your better off trying to fix or just replace it though IMO...
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