How To: Replace a Car Headlight Bulb

Changing your headlight bulbs is an easy form of maintenance that you can perform on your vehicle. Watch us show you how to install new headlight bulbs in your vehicle. Replacing your car, truck, or SUVs headlight bulbs can help increase your nighttime visibility.

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0:00 Welcome Back
0:42 Locate Your Bulbs
1:05 Remove the Old Bulb
1:28 Install the New Bulbs
1:55 Test Your New Bulbs

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This video’s step-by-step instructions detail how to replace the headlight bulbs on your car, truck, or SUV. Whether your vehicle has halogen bulbs or LED headlights, dim, flickering, or burned out bulbs, or bulbs that only work sporadically, should be replaced to keep you safe on the road. Performing a headlight bulb replacement yourself can reduce the cost to replace headlight bulbs, and is often a simple repair  that can help keep you safe on the road and follow state laws. If you’ve wondered how to replace headlights yourself, this video will answer your questions and help you perform a straightforward repair. O’Reilly Auto Parts carries headlight bulbs, tail light bulbs, side marker bulbs, headlight assemblies, and more to help you make the lighting repairs your vehicle needs.

When a bulb burns out, the one on the other side is probably going to burn out soon as well…it really is a good idea to go ahead and change them both. It’ll also keep you from having headlights with two different levels of brightness…because as a bulb wears out, it’s going to continue growing dimmer.

So, once you’ve got the bulbs for your replacement, pop the hood and take a look behind the body of the headlight. You should be able to identify the back of the bulb. Now, in some cases…you might have to remove your battery or your air cleaning unit.

If you do, don’t worry…it’s usually just a couple of bolts or screws. Just make sure you remember which bulb…high beam or low beam…needs replaced and that your car and lights are turned off.

When you get to the bulb, you’ll see a socket with wires that’s plugged into the base of the bulb. You’ll want to detach the wire socket from the bulb—just press the tab to release it and pull on the socket. Be careful to pull on the socket and not the wires so you don’t damage the wires.

In most cases, you’ll twist the bulb to the left and slide it straight out. Some vehicles have a clip or retaining ring that needs to be loosened or taken out before the bulb can be removed.

Have your replacement bulb ready before you remove the old one, and when you handle the new one, be sure not to touch it with your bare fingers. Finger oil or grease makes a hot spot on the glass that can cause the bulb to burn out prematurely.

Bulbs will have tabs that align with notches on the opening at the back side of the housing, so there’s really only one way they’ll go in. Once you’ve slid the bulb back into position and secured it by twisting it to the right… reattach your wire socket and you’re good to go.

Repeat those steps on the other side, and then… check and make sure your headlights are working before you close the hood.