Just joined today after a 400 mile drive yesterday from Kent to my home in Scottish Borders. Great trip. Weather just perfect with sun behind as I drove North......Car ...Black X Fire Coupe got 38 mpg. Last half hour in dusk when I found offside headlight off...So anyone have tips on bulb changing...Offside Dipped Beam

 

Hi Colin. Welcome. These cars are alot of fun and catch eyes everywhere given their relative rarity. Follow this link and go to Electrical / Lighting and then click on the headlight replacemnet link. It has a pdf with pictures to help. https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...s-repairs.html

Beware of the clips. Take care not to spring them or loose them. Also, don't touch the bulbs.

By the way, if you got 38 mpg you were driving too SLOWLY

Enjoy the care and the forum. This forum is great. A real help for all things Crossfire.

Best in the New Year.

 

To change bulbs in the headlamps you need to remove them from the car. There are two bolts on top of the lamp. The other two bolts are underneath. To get the bottom bolts off you will need to jack up the car, remove the front wheels, and access the bolts through the access door on the front of the fender well. You will also need a really long (12") socket extension and a rachet to get them loose.

Once you have the headlamp out (you have to maneuver it around a lot to get it out) you can get easy access to the bulbs and remove the speed clips holding them in.

Have fun with that job. I would just go ahead and replace every light in there to avoid taking it out again later.

 

I have to respectfully disagree, you DO NOT need to remove the headlight housings to replace the bulbs.
I will admit, however, that it is a much easier task if the housings are removed, but the effort required to
do so outweighs the effort of replacing the bulbs in-situ .

 

Technically you can do it without removing the headlamp. It's just really hard to see want you're doing. I had a horrible time and failed miserably, until I removed them.

 

No need to go to THAT trouble. Here is a little secret: yanking the wire connectors off the bulbs can be the WORST part, but there IS a better way.

Once you FINALLY wrestle the connector off, use diagonal cutters to cut the little "bridge" between the two wire's captive housings. In this way, you can remove ONE wire at a time (the next time, that is) and it is way easier. I have modded all four of my lights this way.

Small hands and fingers help, too. (I have no way of modding your fingers and hands, sorry.)


I've had three bulbs fail in the past two months.