Thursday, June 2, 2011

Does anyone know how to change a headlight bulb in a smart car. It is an 03 four two.?

You have a choice, either:

Take out the little grill below the windscreen to gain access to the back of the headlight. Then you reach in and remove the old bulb and replace. Unfortunately, you will need to break your arm in 3 places and grow fingers 2 feet long to do this easily as you will be working blind, at full stretch in a very confined space. So for the next time I did one I used option 2 which is:

Remove the entire front panel of the car, remove the headlight, change the bulb, and refit the front panel. This sounds ridiculous, but it's dead easy and takes about 20 minutes as opposed to 2.5 hours of fiddling.



To remove the front panel:

unscrew and remove the arial for the radio.

Remove the door mirrors (3 torx screws each from inside the car) and let the mirrors hang.

remove the little silver grill (may have fog lights) - this achieved with a small screwdriver that can be used to release 5(?) plastic clips moulded into the grill that hold it in place.

Behind where you have removed the little grill you will see 2 further torx screws that need to come out (1 on each side).

Open the driver and passenger doors, you will see approximately 5 torx screws (on each side) that you need to take out to release the front panel.

Lift off the front panel carefully, gently unplugging the indicator repeaters as you do it.



Headlight is simply screwed into place with all screws visible.



And as the Haynes manual would no doubt say %26quot;refitting is the reversal of removal%26quot;



Have fun! (or you could take it to the garage!)Does anyone know how to change a headlight bulb in a smart car. It is an 03 four two.?I don't think its necessary to remove the front. I did it this morning in 10 minutes: http://www.evilution.co.uk/295 - In addition, use a vanity mirror and a flashlight to size it up. The key is knowing how the m-brackets are clipped in. I even fixed a mistake that was made by the dealer.

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