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To those needing to replace your foglight bulbs...

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Old 08-26-10, 10:44 AM
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Default To those needing to replace your foglight bulbs...

Just take the whole assembly out....It's easy and you won't want to kill something because you are trying to replace the bulbs with the housing still in the bumper....Take out the assenbly, you will thank me.
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Y take out the whole assembly when the bulb just twists off. Unless im not understanding war ur saying
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Originally Posted by Li Ls4
Y take out the whole assembly when the bulb just twists off. Unless im not understanding war ur saying
On my 95, the bulb does not "twist" off. It is held in place by a metal clip. which looks like an unbent paper clip. Besides, it is so very easy to remove the housing, I'm not sure why anyone would try to change the bulb with the housing still in the bumper.
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I wish I could take off the whole assembly. The screws are rusted and just spin when I try and take it off.
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Agh it's a h3 bulb. I still don't understand how it would easyer to take the assembly out rather than unhooking it
Old 08-26-10, 11:59 AM
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trust the OP, taking out the entire assembly lets you see exactly what you're doing. I've tried swapping out bulbs by feel and it's a pain in the ***.

If you have skinny wrists and small hands, you can undo the 2 bolts in the back and the screw on the top easily through the opening in the lower grill.
Old 08-26-10, 12:59 PM
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It must have started on the 95yrs. Cause on my 94 you just twist the bulb out. But on my 95 GS300 you had to undo the lil paper clip thing.
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Originally Posted by Banikid
I wish I could take off the whole assembly. The screws are rusted and just spin when I try and take it off.
Try this, unscrew the small bolts and at the same time, pull the fog light assembly in the opposite direction. That is what I had to do with mine.
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Originally Posted by sc-driver
trust the OP, taking out the entire assembly lets you see exactly what you're doing. I've tried swapping out bulbs by feel and it's a pain in the ***.

If you have skinny wrists and small hands, you can undo the 2 bolts in the back and the screw on the top easily through the opening in the lower grill.
I knew there was supposed to be a bolt on top lol Both of mine didn't have the top bolt.
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Originally Posted by Li Ls4
Agh it's a h3 bulb. I still don't understand how it would easyer to take the assembly out rather than unhooking it
Looks like you have a 92 when they were cornering lights. I guess in 95 when they went to true fogs, they changed the way the light was held in. Trust me though, these bulbs do not screw in. You place them in the slot were they sit and then you use a paper clip looking clip to hold them in place.
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My celicas lows, highs, and fogs are like that and I have no problem just taking out the bulb where they are. Never changed my SC's bulbs though so I guess I have no say LOL
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Originally Posted by FireCode
Looks like you have a 92 when they were cornering lights. I guess in 95 when they went to true fogs, they changed the way the light was held in. Trust me though, these bulbs do not screw in. You place them in the slot were they sit and then you use a paper clip looking clip to hold them in place.
I didn't know that on a 95 the corner lights were actually fogs untill u told me that there's a h3 bulb in there haha. the fogs on my 1st gen Ls400 has h3 bulbs so I know all about the lil paper clip. But I'll take it word for it tho. I'll find out how it is on my 92 when I go to put leds in my corner lights. Same concept just without the h3 bulbs and paper clip
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If you jack the car up on the side your changing it makes getting to the bulb pretty darn easy. I can change mine in about 3 min total. Takes me longer to jack the car up then to take out/replace the bulb. Once you know how the clip works I don't think that there is a need to take the entire fog light out.
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