To start off, for those starting to think their halogens just aren’t cutting it anymore; the LED bulbs are well worth the investment. The light pattern is slightly different due to the bulb producing more light and reflecting the facets of the reflector housing more however I feel I’ll quickly adjust to it.
If you don’t have small hands; I would set aside a good hour or two for installing them due to tight spaces and the need to partially detach the front bumper cover to remove the headlights.
It can be done without removing them however bulb adapter tolerances may require slight tweaking to the bulb receptacle to make solid contact with the LED which I will explain in further detail later. After removing all the hardware I will explain I removed below I was able to make the tweaks and insert the bulbs without unplugging them.
First remove these six torx bits which hold the headlight and headlight brace in.
Next remove the four torx screws from inside the wheel well. You may remove the front wheels to do so or turn the steering fully each direction to access them.
Then you will want to pull up and out on the corner of the bumper cover to pop it out from under the headlight and front fender.
Now remove the four screws circled in red below and am carefully unsnap the bottom of the grille.
Once the grille is removed you have access to the four screws circled in green. From this point the bumper should be loose enough to hang there without removing any lower torx screws to sneak the headlights out.
Here is the low beam H7 bulb:
You can see that is has two connectors that match the factory H7 bulb holder. Before I removed the headlights I was able to sneak the H7 bulbs in; through the wheel wheel liner on the driver side and right in front of the coolant reservoir on the passenger side. However due to slight bulb manufacturing variables the bulb receptacle in the headlight housing will not always make the best contact with the bulb connections.
One of the two bulbs I received required slightly tweaking of the receptacle to fire properly without kicking on and off. Once the headlight is out you can look into the housing and see the metal connector tabs like below:
Simply bent them out with finesse and viola! The bulb makes perfect contact.
The H15 DRL & Highbeam bulb has a really nice rubber seal on it which makes it slightly tricky to twist into place. One trick I found that helped greatly was to lightly oil the rubber seal so it could glide into place. As others have stated there isn’t much to grab and twist them into place. The connectors fit so firmly the small amount of oil on the seal I can’t see it wiggling loose.
Once the H15 bulb is in I was able to creatively fold open and tuck the heat sink fabric. After the heat sink fabric was tucked the rubber seal was able to be reattached with the bottom remaining slightly cracked open to allow the ballast to hang out.
Once you get the bulbs in, verify they all function properly, then assemble in reverse order.
I’ll take some night photos next chance I get.
Since deauto advertises these mimic the factory beam pattern, I didn’t adjust the aim of my headlights at all since they seemed fine before replacing the bulbs. I just verified they were in the same place after reassembly. But please make sure alignment is checked so you’re not blinding other drivers on the road regardless of what bulbs you have.
I’m not too worried about country roads any longer. If you guys have additional questions let me know!
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