(Go
to step by step instruction if you just interest in how to replace the
light bulbs)
Last week left low beam headlight on my
2006 Mitsubishi Outlander was gone. I
went Lordco and told a shop attendant that I want brighter headlight bulbs
instead of 3000K regular light bulbs. She
sold me a pair with 4500K light bulbs, which cost me around 80 bucks. She told me that the light bulbs did cost more
but I did not need a conversion kit for the lights. I was disappointed after I got the lights
replaced as they look almost the same as my old lights before.
Before I started to work on my Outlander to
change the lights, I went to driver』s manual and did research over
internet. Let us see what I got on the
manual and internet:
Manual (see the picture below)
Comments: This is why I hate these manuals. You can never get useful information but some
bull shit!
Someone posted on internet
The
Owner's Manual should have all the info you need for this. If not, read on:The
procedure is the same for most modern cars that I know of.
First,
don't touch the glass part of the new bulb. Any kind of debris or contaminant
on the glass part will dramatically reduce the life of the bulb. That includes
the tiny amount of oil deposited if touched by even clean hands.
Look
under the hood, at the back of the headlamp assembly. You will find an
electrical connector going to the assembly. Push down on a little tab (it's
obvious once you look in there) and pull gently back on the connector to remove
it. If it is hard to push the tab enough, push with a medium screwdriver. It
may take a little patience to get the connector off due to dirt and grit. Just
go slow. It will come off.
The
part of the connector still in place is actually one end of the headlamp.
There's a ring holding the lamp in place. Turn this ring counterclockwise (from
the point of view of the car; that is, clockwise as if you were in the driver's
seat) a quarter turn (maybe less) and pull the ring off. Now the lamp is only
held in by an o-ring friction fit.
To
make things a little simpler later, note the orientation of the lamp's
electrical connector. Pull the lamp out, slide the new one in paying attention
to keep the orientation of the electrical connector the same as the one
removed, secure with the ring, and reconnect the electrical connector.
Last,
test the new bulb high beam and low.
That's
it. It's much easier done than said.
From http://wiki.answers.com
Comments: I really appreciate those people who posted
useful information over the Internet so many people like me will be able to
learn from the stuff that they posted over the Internet. But at meantime
I also wish those people who did nothing but bullshiting all the time could get
out my face as they are doing nothing but just wasting my time.
Tools that you might need to work on the
lights
- 10 mm combination wrench to
remove your battery
- Needle nose pliers to work around tiny space where
your fingers cannot reach
- No.2 Robinson screw driver to
push on and off wire clipper that holds light bulb socket in place
- A small flat screw driver is
also very helpful for the job
Step by step instruction of how to replace
low beam headlights on 2006 Mitsubishi Outlander
- Disconnect battery terminals
and remove the battery from your car.
This is for safety reason and also to make a room for you easy to work
on your left (to driver) low beam light.
- Open watertight boots in the
back of low beam headlight unit in order to get your screw driver in there to
push wire clipper off your headlight bulb socket. Refer to picture 1)
- Remove the blown light bulb and
install a new bulb (Caution: do not touch the light bulbs with bare hand! Wear
gloves or with clean cloth to hold the light bulbs when you install them. The
light bulbs are very hot when they are on.
The life time of your bulbs can be severely decreased by your oily hand
marks. Refer to picture 2) and 3)
- Reverse the procedure of
removing the headlights to put everything back.
Refer to picture 4)
- Test your lower beam headlights
Tips for working on this job:
You must be a handy and very patient person
as this job is not easy to work on. It
took me hours to figure it out and get the job done. The worst thing is that you have no room to
work around those lights. I got small
hands but I still could not get my hand to work in there in most
circumstances. You have to try those
tools that I listed here to find out which one make you feel comfortable to
work around. What I found out was that
No.2 Robinson screw driver is very helpful to push wire clipper on and off the
light socket. Get a longer (about 8」
long) Robinson screw driver and stick the tip of screw driver into the eye of
the clipper to push the wire clipper on or off the light bulb socket. Pushing the wire clipper on and off the light
bulb socket is the key of the entire job.
The job will be done in very short time if you know how work on those
clippers.
2006 Outlander Owner's Manual
2006 Outlander Owner's Manual
Picture 1.
Picture 2. (left low beam light bulb)
Picture 3. (right low beam light bulb)
Picture 4.
new light bulbs
Tools