Both of my fog lamps have up and burned out on me so I'm planning on replacing the bulbs. The only problem is, * I've NEVER done this before * and being a fan of pictographic walk throughs, I thought I'd axe if anyone know of, has, or would like to create, a simple easy-to-follow instruction walk along... soOoooo? :ugh:
Seriously, it's easy. You have two choices, one is easy to explain and hard to do, and the other is hard to explain and easy to do. Easy to explain. There are three 10mm bolts that hold the lamps in (I'm assuming you have a 99-03 with the large foglights). There look like 4, but the fourth is the adjuster (inside top one on each side iirc). Take these out, the light comes out and you swap bulbs. The hard part is that if your car spent any time in the salt belt, the screws will be rusty and will more than likely break off. Then you have a lot of fun ahead of you. The easy way is to take off the plastic splashpans underneath, generally you can get away with just taking the edges loose by the foglights and pulling them down enough to access stuff. Reach up and twist the cap loose, disconnect the bulb (wire goes to a connector in the cap you just took off), release the wire retainer holding the bulb in (that was covered by the cap), take out bulb. Installation is the reverse. I'll put some pics up taken of a light out of the car. Can't take them in the car because I don't have stock fogs on there any longer, and I'm not going to go out int he dark and -15F (-36F windchill) just to take some pictures for anyone.
Click on the images for hi-res versions. Ok, here is the back of the foglight. Here is the cap taken loose. Notice the white wire running from the back of the bulb to the cap. That one you take loose, leave the black wire alone. Like this: Pop the metal clip loose (push on the loop part towards the front of the light and to the side so it comes out from the hook holding it down). Here is the bulb out of the housing. Installing it is just doing the same steps in reverse. Make sure you don't touch the glass parts of the new bulbs with your fingers, or get dirt/grease on them. It will cause them to burn out quickly. If you do get stuff on them, clean them with rubbing alcohol (isopropyl). Wearing a pair of latex or nitrile gloves means you don't have to worry about it, but it's not like it's tough to just hold the bulb by the metal base either.
Get on your back, remove the clips on the front/bottom side of the fender liner, bend it down, you can get in there from the rear. Easy as pie. :ugh:
Yeah, as I was writing this, I kept thinking, "why the hell do people ask questions about how to do something and not say what car?" Ah well, it'll help somebody. Unless they can't figure out how to search.
