Help! Please Help

[mudinuri]

Hi all,

My 1998 RAV4.1 is due for an MOT tomorrow morning and checking the bulbs my Passenger side front side light seems to be blown. Now I have tried for an hour or so and I just can"t puzzle out how to get the bulb holder out to change the bulb. Do I have to remove the whole Light assembly or can it be done from under the bonnet which is how I have been trying to do it(Unsuccessfully).

Please help me if anyone knows, and I"m sure there are some of you who do know.

It"s a 1998 Mark 1 which has the sidelights in the Headlight assembly and not in the same assembly as the indicators as on the later models.

cheers

[TomdeGuerre]

Have you looked at this, specially the very last post http://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/topic/90854-parking-light-bulb-replacement/

Alternatively, and I'm not being a smart alec, go to Halfords, they change bulbs for free.

[Wayne2015]

Have you looked at this, specially the very last post http://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/topic/90854-parking-light-bulb-replacement/

Alternatively, and I'm not being a smart alec, go to Halfords, they change bulbs for free.

Dealers should change bulb for free too (IF u buy from them) - but look at exclusions (as some difficult ones they will charge for)...

[mudinuri]

Hi, thanks for the replies bit I"m afraid they didn"t help because they refer to the newer Rav. Mine is an earlier Rav where the parking light is part of the Headlight unit and it looks like the parking light bulb fitment sticks out of the back of the headlight unit.

At the back of the parking light fitment there seem to be 2 prongs and I"m not sure what these are for. Do I press them together or push them apart when trying to remove the fitment!!

[Grumpy stumpy]

Not sure if this will help but may be the same or similar.http://youtu.be/Ubs83LxXisc

[TomdeGuerre]

Hi, thanks for the replies bit I"m afraid they didn"t help because they refer to the newer Rav. Mine is an earlier Rav where the parking light is part of the Headlight unit and it looks like the parking light bulb fitment sticks out of the back of the headlight unit.

At the back of the parking light fitment there seem to be 2 prongs and I"m not sure what these are for. Do I press them together or push them apart when trying to remove the fitment!!

I know the type of fitting you mean and usually you squeeze the two prongs together to unclip the plug.

Does your headlight look like either of these?

[mudinuri]

Hi Tom,

My Headlight unit doesn"t really match either of those. I have attached a photo taken from above and the Parking light is the Grey plug next to the Mainbeam plug.

cheers

[TomdeGuerre]

Looks to me like the type of plug where you push in the plastic tab (marked by red arrow) and disconnect the plug. You probably don't have much room there and you must make sure the tab is held in while you disconnect. Re-assembly is much easier but then again it usually is!

[mudinuri]

Hi again,

Thanks for all the advice but in the end I had to remove the Front Headlight unit and then it was simply a matter of pressing together the 2 plastic prongs at the bottom of the Parking light plug as I turned it anticlockwise and hey presto it was done.

Thanks again all

David

[TomdeGuerre]

Glad you got it fixed David.