Head Lights
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There's a few tricks to changing and adjusting head lights on a 968.  Let's start with the basics:

First of all, getting the head lights to stay up is not really much of a trick.  Simply raise the lights, then turn off the key.  The lights will stay in the raised position, but they will be off.  This is really handy for cleaning as well.  At this point, you may also turn off the parking lights by rotating the head light switch to OFF, however, if you turn the key back on, the lights will fold back to their OFF position (which could cause damage if you're in the middle of trim removal or changing the bulb).

Remove the trim (if so equipped) as in the beginning of the thermostat replacement procedure.  To tilt the head light forward, pull on the locking pin as I'm demonstrating in this picture.  Sometimes it helps to wiggle the assembly just a little so the pin will disengage.  After it's free, the assembly will tilt forward as shown in the next picture.

 

After the assembly is tilted forward, the pin can be re-engaged and that will keep the head light in a position that's easy to work on.  This will also expose the bottom screws that hold the cover onto the assembly.  Remove all three of these screws (one top, one on each side toward the bottom).  Then, CAREFULLY remove the cover - it's plastic so it will flex some, but just be careful not to break it!  If you're replacing the H4 bulb, then the top half of the remaining trim ring will need removal.  There is a screw holding each "end" of the section.

 

mains_1.jpg (112184 bytes)The thumbnail to the right opens the full sized picture that shows the inside of the head light assembly.  To adjust the aiming of the head light, the two long screws that have little notched wheel on them are used in conjunction to direct the beam both up and down and side to side.  REMEMBER, before adjusting anything, be sure to lock the lights back into position.  Something that's worth mentioning, too - there are some access hole in the cover that theoretically you should be able to use a Philips screw driver or something like that to poke down in there and turn the wheels.  I've never tried this because I've always had to change bulbs (not due to burning out, just trying different ones) so I take the opportunity to aim the lights while everything is exposed.  To change the bulb, the trim piece must be removed (as stated above, but I hadn't done that when I took the above picture).  The spring clip presses toward the assembly then spread apart and can then swing up and out of the way.  This spring clip is holding the "plug" that's hooked to the back of the bulb.  As you can see in the following picture (another thumbnail), this whole thing will unplug, exposing the back of the bulb.  There is another smaller mains_2.jpg (116521 bytes)spring clip that holds the bulb into the assembly.  The tabs are different sizes that make sure the bulb is properly aligned.  After you finally get all this apart and put the new bulb in, everything will go back together in no time :-)  Once you've been through it, it's easier the next time.  Oh yeah, installation is reverse of removal <--- classic Chilton/Haynes speak.


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