How to Replace Parking Light 1995-99 Pontiac Sunfire
Created on: 2010-05-27
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a broken, damaged, cracked, faded, cloudy, or chipped signal light on Pontiac Sunfire, years 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, and 02.
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step 1 :Removing the Headlight
- Remove the plastic panel over the radiator by removing the six clips with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pull the panel up and out
- Remove the 13mm bolts from the headlight
- Remove the spacers if you have them
- Lift the light up and out
- Pull the bulb connector off
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step 2 :Removing the Parking Light
- Twist the side marker bulb out
- Twist the signal bulb out
- Remove the 7mm bolts from the parking light
- Pull the light back, up, and out
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step 3 :Installing the New Parking Light
- Insert the parking bulb into its slot
- Twist the side marker bulb into its socket
- Twist the and signal light into its socket
- Insert and tighten the 7mm bolts onto the light
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step 4 :Installing the Headlight
- Plug the light bulb into its socket
- Place the headlight into its slot
- Replace the spacer and 13mm bolts without pinching the light
- Tighten the 13mm bolts
- Place the plastic panel over the radiator
- Insert the six clips into the plastic panel
Tools needed
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13mm Socket
Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
7mm Socket
Ratchet
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In this video, we'll be showing you how to replace the parking light on this 1997 Pontiac Sunfire. It's same as any '95 to '02 Sunfire. It's pretty easy; you just need a few basic tools: a flat blade screwdriver, 13mm and 7mm socket, and a ratchet.
Your first step is to remove this plastic panel, and it's held in by a bunch of clips. There's one here, here, there should be one there, another one there, one over here, and one right here. As you can see, this car is missing some of those clips, but you basically just take your screwdriver, pry up the plastic pin, and the clip comes out. You can see it's just a little pin that this locks down into. I'll take apart the rest of those pins and we'll get back to it.
Once you've got the clips out, then this comes out. You're going to rotate it up and put it right out. Now, there's two 13mm bolts right here and here. You can easily get to these with a regular wrench. I'm actually going to cheat a little bit here and use an air ratchet. When you've taken your bolts out, just pay attention because you might have little spacers underneath the lights, and you want to make sure you put those back when you're putting the light back together. Once those bolts are out, you just lift the light up a little bit and it comes right out.
Here is your connector. You can see back in here, after you've removed the headlight, here is your parking light. It just twists and pulls right out. Then there are two 7mm bolts here that hold your parking light assembly, and actually right underneath here at the bottom is your signal light. Here, you can see the back of the parking light housing, and you got two 7mm bolts that hold in place. With this I'll remove those bolts. Here is the back of the parking light and signal light, and its two 7mm bolts. It's easy enough to get a wrench back in there. I'm going to use the gorgeous invention of the air ratchet. The light actually goes up and it comes out the back.
Then, to put the light back in, just place it right down in there. Make sure you plug in the lights. This bottom: just feel your way into and then plug in your side marker. Tighten up the bolts and we're all set.
When you're getting ready to replace the light, you want to make sure that this tab gets into this slot right here. Plug the light in and then put it back in. You can see down right through this little slot here, and it just goes right in like that. It's pretty easy. It's just something to make sure of. You got our spacer back in here. We put it back in where it was. A word about these bolts, they are shouldered, so you want to start them down in and make sure when you're tightening them up that you don't pinch the plastic of the light.
You want to shape the light as you're tightening them up to make sure that the shoulder goes down into the hole on the plastic on the light. Then you want to tighten them up. They don't have to be extremely tight, but you want to them snug. Then lastly, take your plastic vessel here, shoot it down in. The sides go down in and then you put your pins in. Push the pin in first and then lock it down.
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