Thank you, Mamachanic! 🙏🏻 No thanks to Subaru. 🤬 Following your instructions, I successfully replaced my Outback’s low beam bulb with minimal cuts and abrasions. 😁
Great explanation but wow - changing a headlight bulb should not be that difficult. The Subaru engineer that designed this system should be fired and then beat up for good measure.
Thanks so much for the video. My '07 Legacy wagon, wiht the same same assembly, it was a 5-minute job - for both lamps; no bodywork, no Yoga. My 2011 Outback; 1 hour the first time the driver's side went! Insane My hints: - First, get aome king of lubrication on the cap's O-ring before starting. Mine is a different style but after the lubrication is in, maybe 5 minutes, then you can turn it from topside by pushing a lug or 2 with a screwdriver. BUT wait; - Take particular not eof the position of the cap before pulling it out. mine has 4 lugs that hold it inbut it only goes in ONE WAY. maybe mark it with a black or silver sharpie - I turn the wheel inward, not outward and only take out about 4 of the clips, just enough to let me pry it open to either peek in or get an arm in (not both a tthe same time) I.e on the driver's (left, side, I'm in the US) I push in the wheel-well liner with my left hand & shove my right arm in up to my elbow & I can just reach the low-beam lamp area. - Alll my actual work is in the blind. I have to peek in for the part I need to work on and then put my hand in before my mind loses the picture. - Pull the electrical connector off before unlatching the lamp & get it out of the way without too much twisting. - Peek in & note the angle of that little tab; it is only slightly below horizontal. I get about 50% success of getting the tab in the slot, so check it before & after visually, if you can. - Before putting the cap back on, clean the oring and the part it is going to seat on; it will save a lot of effort whhe you have to press it back into place & turn it. In my humboe opinion, pulling the battery appaer isn't all that helpful. the bulb comes in & out from the bottom just fine. I just hold it by the electrical connectors. To be fair I had plenty of practice on my Legacy where I could just lean over the car & do it, no fussinwi with (car) body parts. And - really - which enginer decided that you should have to pull off the entire bumper cover to replace headlamp assemblies. Maybe the dealers lobbied for that so they could charge owners outrageous $$$ to relpace a burned out lamp or a cracked lamp assembly. Oddly the rear assemblie is so eay I can fix it while in the lot at (the parts-store of your choice)
Thank you, Mamachanic! 🙏🏻
No thanks to Subaru. 🤬
Following your instructions, I successfully replaced my Outback’s low beam bulb with minimal cuts and abrasions. 😁
Hey, thank you!
Gracias por tus vídeos machanic
So I would go for the battery route next time lol
I had to change a bulb the same way on my '05 Camry.
Great explanation but wow - changing a headlight bulb should not be that difficult. The Subaru engineer that designed this system should be fired and then beat up for good measure.
Thanks so much for the video.
My '07 Legacy wagon, wiht the same same assembly, it was a 5-minute job - for both lamps; no bodywork, no Yoga.
My 2011 Outback; 1 hour the first time the driver's side went! Insane
My hints:
- First, get aome king of lubrication on the cap's O-ring before starting. Mine is a different style but after the lubrication is in, maybe 5 minutes, then you can turn it from topside by pushing a lug or 2 with a screwdriver. BUT wait;
- Take particular not eof the position of the cap before pulling it out. mine has 4 lugs that hold it inbut it only goes in ONE WAY. maybe mark it with a black or silver sharpie
- I turn the wheel inward, not outward and only take out about 4 of the clips, just enough to let me pry it open to either peek in or get an arm in (not both a tthe same time) I.e on the driver's (left, side, I'm in the US) I push in the wheel-well liner with my left hand & shove my right arm in up to my elbow & I can just reach the low-beam lamp area.
- Alll my actual work is in the blind. I have to peek in for the part I need to work on and then put my hand in before my mind loses the picture.
- Pull the electrical connector off before unlatching the lamp & get it out of the way without too much twisting.
- Peek in & note the angle of that little tab; it is only slightly below horizontal. I get about 50% success of getting the tab in the slot, so check it before & after visually, if you can.
- Before putting the cap back on, clean the oring and the part it is going to seat on; it will save a lot of effort whhe you have to press it back into place & turn it.
In my humboe opinion, pulling the battery appaer isn't all that helpful. the bulb comes in & out from the bottom just fine. I just hold it by the electrical connectors.
To be fair I had plenty of practice on my Legacy where I could just lean over the car & do it, no fussinwi with (car) body parts.
And - really - which enginer decided that you should have to pull off the entire bumper cover to replace headlamp assemblies. Maybe the dealers lobbied for that so they could charge owners outrageous $$$ to relpace a burned out lamp or a cracked lamp assembly. Oddly the rear assemblie is so eay I can fix it while in the lot at (the parts-store of your choice)
I’m seriously taking off the wheel to change the headlight. This is ridiculous.
Thank Subaru 🤦🏼♀️
Subaru can go to hell. This is my first and last Subaru entirely due to how difficult it is to change the bulb.
So if you just took the battery out it is right there you don’t know what you are doing
@@kirkjordan2625 wrong! You can’t access the bulbs from under the hood. I’d love to see your video.👩🏼🔧👩🏼🔧👩🏼🔧
@@mamachanic I bet you would
@@kirkjordan2625wake up