[s-cars] Headlight removal

[Igor Kessel]

Tony wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> There are four screws, 2 accessable from the top which you can see. Two are
> behind the little panel behind the lense washer thats pops out. Undo the
> screw holding the little panel (sorry don't know correct name) behind the
> lense washer then pull out the washer thingy and slide the panel out. Remove
> the screws under the headlight.
> 
> Install is reverse actions, but be careful with the under light screws as
> you can't see when replacing them. I used a bit of plumbers mate putty to
> hold the screw on to the tip of the screw driver.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Tony
> 96 S6
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Claire" <mclaire_us at yahoo.com>
> To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 1:06 PM
> Subject: [s-cars] Headlight removal
> 
> 
> 
>>I'm installing my new Samco hose set.  There are
>>instructions for this at
>>http://www.elektro.com/~audi/samcoinst/
>>
>>This page references headlight removal on the old
>>www.urs4.com site.  There's a pointer from there to
>>s-cars.com - but the content is not there yet.
>>
>>So....  can somebody tell me how to take out the
>>headlights???
>>
>>
>>Thanks
>>Mike

Mike,

1. undo the big round 5-pin electric connector to the headlight. Press on the wire 
clip and pull it off.

2. insert a long flat screwdriver through the hole in the fender, stick it into 
the X-slot on the blinker clip, turn 45° and gently press on it and pry the 
locking wedge out. The keyword is "gently". Pull the blinker out and let it hang 
up against the fender on the wires.

3. undo the flat screw that holds the long metal piece under the headlight, 
through which the spray nozzle protrudes.

4. gently pull the spray nozzle out and unclip its cover from the top, then slide 
it off the nozzle in a rotating action as if you're opening a book. The keyword is 
"gently".

5. while the nozzle is still out gently pull the flat metal piece in §1 out of the 
slot in the fender and off the nozzle. The keyword is "gently".

6. with a long Philips screwdriver undo the two screws under the headlight in its 
corners.

7. undo the the two top screws. Don't reverse the §4 and §5, or the headlight will 
jam the lower screws.

8. gently pull the headlight out.

As luck would have it, I am smack in the middle of doing the headlights this very 
moment. I am on my what, 4th alteration of the headlights now? :)

This time around I am replacing the DOT HID projectors with the Euro HID 
projectors and installing the Euro hight adjuster motors in them. A few hours ago 
I have won the switch on ebay.de so in the end my the lighting of my car will be 
converted to the Euro S6+ spec.

-- 
Igor Kessel
http://home.comcast.net/~KBATPO/