Prius 2010 headlight replacement


Prius 2010 Headlight replacement - driver side. Both the main headlight and side light on the driver side stopped working. Luckily high beam light was working. Positions of the bulbs shown below.


After opening the hood getting to the bulbs and figuring out how to remove them is a little tricky. The driver side is relatively straight forward once you figure out what is what but the passenger side is very cramped and might have to take a few other elements out of the way before one can reach the bulbs.


As indicated in the pictures above the main headlight bulb is a halogen bulb (and the high beam one too) and has a wider/thicker connector whereas the side lamp is a smaller regular bulb. The oritentation of the side lamp bulb is kind of up right whereas main headlight is horizontal. Turning the connector assembly quarter of a turn removes them from the slot. Remember the oritentation of the connector as you remove it as it will go back in the same way. There is only one way to remove it and the same way back. 

Press towards the end of the conenctor in order to remove the bulb from the connector.  


The replacement bulb for the main headlight is H11 at Autozone. Always wear gloves while working with halogen bulbs so that our bare fingers do not touch the bulb accidentally.




Remove the side lamp from its slot and then just pull out the bulb from the connector. This is a regular bulb and not halogen.


The replacement bulb at Autozen for this bulb is #168 as shown below.


Just the plug the new bulb in the connector by pushing it in. Test that the lights are working before putting them back into their respective positions.

Now put the connectors back into their respective positions and verify that they sit nicely and even. 


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