2009 Mazda 6 - low beam headlight lamps bulbs replacement - how to ( CX-7 too )
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2013
- Quick and dirty how to change out the low beam lamps of a 2nd generation ( 2009 - 2013 ) Mazda 6. You can do it with the tire on or the tire off depending on your dexterity and/or patience level. Both ways shown here.
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I spent 20 minutes squatting in the Auto Zone parking lot trying to plug a low-beam bulb into the high-beam socket because I didn't watch this video first. (Pro tip: won't fit no matter HOW much you cuss at it.) Thanks to this video now at least I know what to look for -- uncertain exactly how to remove the bail, but once that's out of the way, looks pretty straightforward. Thanks!!!
Great video. I was looking at the car and thinking, "Those idiots that designed this can't really expect us to pull out the wheel well insert to change a headlight bulb." Thanks for confirming that is, in fact, what the idiots wanted us to do. My only change was that I turned my wheels in (leaving the wheel on). I think it was easier. Took me about 20 min. and half of my Navy vocabulary.
My wife has this car and the bulb on the driver side just went. I too was looking at how the heck you got into the back of the bulb. Thanks you sir for making this job easier than the royal pain in the neck it seems to be. Appreciate your time!
It's December and my daughter has to drive to work in the dark. Teens fahrenheit and can just get nose of car in garage with all my crap, haha. This video sped things up for me. Took wheel off and glad I did. Many thanks!
I have a 2010 Mazda6. Walmart Tire & Lube will install the headlight bulb for around $7.50 plus the purchase of the bulb. Had mine installed today! Under $20 for everything!!
all mechanics should speak like you, clear, direct. thank you. this video was very helpful!
Quick lube told me they would have to pull the engine to replace the bulb...I told them don't worry I will do it my self. Took me 10 minutes.
Quick lube guys are morons a good percentage of the time. I never trust them. I always open the hood after I get the car back from them just to check things out. I have found the oil cap laying on the valve cover not screwed back on, an air filter that was the wrong part and way too big crammed into the air box, and they almost always put too much air in the tires.
@@DirtFlyer does that make you an even bigger moron for taking your car to them to do a simple oil change?🤷🏻♂️
Now I see why the dealer told me that there was nothing wrong with the aiming of my headlights. They couldn't be bothered and I can't see without the high beams on! Thank you for enlightening me.
Lorrie, yes, poor headlight distance is another known issue with this model. I think Consumer Reports had the same comment. I had to adjust mine up regardless of what the factory spec was. If I recall correctly, you don't need deal with the wheel area, they can be adjusted from under the hood. Park the car 10 feet from a wall (the garage wall, the side of a mall, whatever), use a piece of tape and mark the height of the top or bottom edge of the the bright spot shining on the wall. Turn the adjustment screw until the bright spot is now 4 inches higher. Give it a try at night. I had my wife drive the other direction to make sure I did not make them too high as to blind the other drivers. If it is too high or to low, adjust accordingly. Also, a very bright lamp helps after trial and error I had the best results with Philips H7 CrystalVision Ultra Headlight Bulbs. Good luck. If I have the time I will take a picture of the vertical adjustment screws to try to help you out!
Thanks for posting. Did this minutes ago. I did not take wheel off but had to use jack with wheel turned outward. Push-type retainers come off as video shows turning with a Phillips head applying no pressure causing middle to pop up then using flat head to pop off outside. If your memory sucks, take a picture of the bulb enclosure with the clip on before you take that retainer clip off, trust me lol. Who were the cosigners that gave thumbs up to the engineer that came up with this?
Thanks for the video refresher course! I'm replacing our low beam bulbs for the third time in two years. Pretty soon I'm going to just wire my own relay into the switch to bypass whatever electrical gremlin causes this crap!
great this will save me a 100 dollars i don't have, glad I looked here before my appointment tomorrow,thanks a bunch
There are four screws under the car which make removing the wheel cover much much easier. Its in the car manual. Overall this whole process was a hassel for me, I installed HID's to my car, I suggest just removing the wheel, remove the pop rivets(look up a video on how to remove pop rivets, i broke a few lol) along with the four screws which attached the cover to the fender after that everything is easy to see ( signal light, low beam and fog lights). Removing everything just makes the whole process go much faster instead of struggling to see where are the bulbs are.
I changed my bulbs yesterday on my Mazda 6, yr 2009, it was a pain in the arse. some plastic pop rivets nearly didn't get out. what a shit. This rubber protection was also a pain to bend, thought sometimes it would break, haha. Took me about 1 hour for both sides. Thanks for the video, would never find out to change it this way
It's amazing,if you crawl under the front end and take out 4 more screws and the whole inner fender wall drops with no struggling
Sweet, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
WOW that is absolutely insane!!
This helped a great deal. I only broke one pop rivet! Thanks for this video.
For the 2003 Mazda 6, I removed 3 screws from the bottom of the splash guard. This way you can move the whole splash guard away to fit your hand pretty nicely inside.
Thanks for the video. So easy after watching you do it! I did break many of the pop rivets and had to replace.
D Santibanez where do you find replacement pop rivets?
Every time I have to do this I reference this video. This design is so insane to me and always makes me wonder what had (I assume) priority over headlamp access that resulted in this design. The engineers had to know this would be annoying AF
Thank you for the video. Confirmed my suspicions unfortunately!
Thanks for posting. I had to do this twice - first time I broke the high beam bulb by mistake. Truly the worst design ever. Next car I am going to make sure I can change bulbs without taking half the car apart.
Good luck with that, unless you go back to a 90s car....
Excellent, thanks a lot, for taking the time.
Hi. Some Valovolene instant oil change places will change out headlights. In the past I had driven in there with the new bulbs in hand and asked them to replace it. They did it without taking off the wheel. It was so much work for them I also gave them a $10 McDonalds coffee gift card as thanks. Good luck! Remember, don't touch the glass portion of the bulbs.
Yes thankyou for sharing now learned how to do this.
u are awesome man , save me a ton of time , thanx.
ahh. finally got back from changing hid bulb..always fun
Thanks!! I put the driver side in with the tab facing in toward the engine and the light pattern at night is weird...im gonna go back and change it tomorrow. Thanks cuz other vids didnt mention the tabs
Thanks for posting this........Huge help and saved me about $80
Thanks. I was thinking about buying one of these. A nice one with low mileage for what seems like a great price. Forget it. I will never buy a car where I have to do that to replace my headlights. Whoever dreamed that up shouldn't ever be allowed near a car design studio again. I'm being kind of course.
Works with the CX-7 2011 model as well. Thank you.
I have the same car! Ive changed both bulp today in less the 5 minutes!
Don't remove any part! Just use your hand! :-)
Thank You sir!
Just a word of caution for folks out there attempting this. Be careful when attempting to go through the wheel well to change the bulb. The pop rivets are hard to find! So do not break them. Instead of replacing the bulb, I installed a LED light kit on both sides but I had to remove the front bumper to do it. Not a difficult job but it does take some time and realigning the parts was time consuming!
What size bulb are they?
Hey buddy! I have a 2010 Mazda 6 isport and I want to put HIDs. Is it a matter of just plug in bulbs like in the video? Thanks in advance. Merry Christmas!
Thank You for posting rapping or hitting the housing on the outside with your palm can also cause the light to come on before trying to change the bulb
If you are changing out bulbs faster than a rabbit on a date, there might be a different problem. The running light on my Mazda 6i stopped working. This is a 7444HD lamp, dual element also used for the turn signal and is housed in the front headlamp lens assembly. When I removed the bulb both elements tested OK. I traced the problem to a loose harness connector located under the air filter housing (need to take out the air filter housing to get to it). After locking the connector in, it's been working ever since. There is a tool you can use for the fender skirt fasteners so they don't get damaged when you try to remove them - about $9 at your favorite parts store.
Brett Howe Another tip - use gloves to handle the bulbs when installing them. Oil from your fingers make hot spots on the bulb that makes them fail faster.
I have this car so this is good to know. thx
Hey Krgetler. Many thanks for your instructional video. I am having some difficulty ascertaining which bulb it is I need for my 2008 Mazda 6. It is a Gen 2 model as it was just as they changed from the Gen 1. Is it a H11? Many thanks in advance!
Legend-many thanks Kyle!
Both my low beams are not working. I saw the fuses are ok. they are of 10A. the high beam fuses are missing, they are rated 15A. I am really stressed now because the mazda dealer said that they are really expensive and if both the sides are not working then there could be some other electrical malfunction. Is there any relay for low beams that would be responsible for the both side low beams?
Now when I buy a car I have to ask .....OK SURE IT GETS 40 MILES TO THE GALLON AND IT LOOKS COOL BUT HOW EASY IS IT TO CHANGE A FRIGGIN LIGHT BULB????
My 2009 Mazda 6 has not had a headlight go out yet (knock on wood) but both front side marker lights are out. I'm assuming that to change those I need to follow the same procedure as changing the low beam headlights. I might as well change the headlights the same time as I change the marker lights. Thoughts?
Dont fuck with the headlights if they are working. You can have a knat piss on the new one on the way in and it will burn out i a week. Side markers make sure to take out all the plastic screws a d the three on the bottom. Better access
I have the same car. Do you know the location of the bulb for the gear shifter? I know that it displays in dash, but mine went out and it's dark at night.
Ugh! Guess I will save this to do next weekend.
I can't believe I'm actually thinking of selling my car because of how stupid the head light replacement mechanism is... take a wheel off? what the fuc#?
Its not that hard, just take off a few more screws at the bottom to drol the panel and walahh, access.
Yeah that shit just extra
Thanks for the video, i did it in the snow and it sucked. I ended up using a rachet strap above well panel to below the tire assembly. I lacked a Nerf football...
Remove all the well snaps and the screws under the bumper. It drops down without the struggle or nerf ball. No wheel removal, just cut opposite to headlight thats getting replaced. I would suggest anyone who owns this car learn how to do this. Stubby phillips and time are only tools needed
Thank you for having posted this video. It helped a lot! Stupid Mazda.... lol
Where can I get low beam hid lights from I need 2 of them for a decent price?!
I've got a '12 Mazda 6, almost 180k miles, bought it at 43k. Been a great car- reliable, fair MPG, enough juice to merge and pass when needed, big trunk; been able to fix most everything myself as a shade-tree mechanic. Overall, a positive experience.... but this abomination of a headlight replacement process is why I will never own another Mazda. You think the process sucks in this video? Make the change in an unheated garage in Minnesota in February. The plastic edges of the wheel-well panels turn to razors; the working space would be ample if my arms were the the size of an eight-year-old girl's, but as a grown adult... yeah, you can forget about gloves too. Maybe once I'm too old to get under the car myself I'd consider another Mazda, but until then...
Man, I hear ya. I replaced them so many times and I fume each time. I even tried to replace it with an LED kit but the stupid way Mazda has the metal bale fold over the halogen bulb to hold it in you can't get an LED to fit. They did everything they could to make bulb changes unnecessarily difficult. I even considered cutting a round hole in the fender well and gluing a screw cap thingy on so I could just unscrew the cap and reach through. All that said, the car now has about 230k miles on it and it still looks and runs good.
I love how exhausted you sound in the beginning - at the idea of changing the headlight. My car seems to only have the bulbs last about 3 months before I need to replace them. WORSE with PIAA. I bought wider tires before moving to CO [wider works better in the snow with this car] but now it's almost impossible to change my headlight.
Is this the same way to adjust your headlights as well?
If you take off the 4 retaining screws that hold the well cover to the bumper that whole cover will just drop down giving easy access. No tire removal or nerf football. :) You still need to take off the pop rivets tho.
winterhtech, not sure what year your car is but when I checked my 2009 it seemed like the wheel well cowling it was riveted to the bumper, no screws. Can someone else check their rivets/screws? Thanks.
3 screws on front and 7 rivets under the well
What kind of bulb do you use for the car?
Yes big help! The only way it could be more helpful is if you did it for me, lol!
so today my passenger low beam headlight if off, imma hit it then see if it lights up...2012 mazda 6.....ope it works
Do these headlights have separate high/low beam bulbs? My gf's 2012 is blowing low beams on a regular basis...
Yes, they are separate. I have replaced my low beams probably 8 times on my 2009. However, I have not replaced a single high-beam. I think the high beams are installable from under the hood but not perfectly sure. If you are replacing the low beams, make sure you get the little tongue on the bulb oriented correctly in the socket or you may end up with heat damage to your lens. Good luck!
krgetler Thank you my friend...
How do you tell if you have a second generation or not my wife bought a 2009 Mazda6 I guess the trim style is I-4 the model is I and I'm just wondering if this goes for her car as well
Chris, just happened to be on when I saw your message. If your headlights/fenders look like the ones in the video you are gen2. Gen2 is much larger car and the body style is much different than gen1.
@@krgetler ok cool thanks, they look just like yours, thanks for the quick response
I can't put the damn clip back in
where can I get the piece that holds the light bulb in place mine is missing and my light bulb is hanging and melting everything
+Emely Trejo If you are speaking about the little metal wire 'bale' which clips over the lamp withing the light housing canister I am sure it is going to be a dealer part. You could try a junk yard but I doubt they are going to want to deal with such a small part. They would rather sell the entire headlight assembly. Good luck.
From where does one buy the pop rivots? What's the size?
I am sure you can get the official 'Mazda' ones from your dealer. Otherwise your local parts store should have plenty to choose from. Take one from your car in and try to find one the same diameter and length. Pop rivets or whatever they are officially called are widely used by many manufacturers. Hope it helps.
Why do manufacturers now not make cars where you can change these from inside under the bonnet? It used to take one minute to change a bulb, now you need to partially dismantle the car. Ridiculous.
how do you put the damn pop rivots back in?
Garret, leave the center/phillips head portion extended out of the base of the plastic rivet assembly. Align the body and wheel-well holes and press the base of the rivet into place. Once the base of the rivet is into place (holding the wheel-well to the car body) push the center/phillips head portion into the plastic rivet base making it expand to lock the rivet assembly into place. Summary: set the base in place THEN push in the center.
thank you, i finally got it :)
Would be a lot easier if you take the air filter box out.
I would just take the bumper off. Takes 15 minutes, has more room to work and it'll save you from a headache.
Changing the low beam in a 2012 Mazda 6 iSport is a pain in the ASS. The pop rivets didn't come out nearly as easy as yours did, and I ended up actually breaking a few to get them out. When I did get them out, prying back the mud guard just with one hand while changing it with the other also wasn't as easy. This is seriously the dumbest fucking way just to change out a damn headlight. Car designers definitely could come up with an easier way of doing this, but why? "Visit your local mazda dealership with help to change out the bulb". Fucking idiots.
I agree totally.
I have a 2010 Mazda 6. Jack the car up take the front wheel off unloosen the plastic inner fender from the bottom front so you can pull the whole thing behind the rotor and then work on that fucking annoying little bulb. And don't touch the new low beam bulb with your fingers. Nice little Nerf ball.
You DON'T need to remove the cowling or the tyre. My son-in-law just replaced mine from the top. It took him five minutes.
Ummm...how?
Please tell us all how! Small hands?
Kyle Griffiths I don't know. No, his hands are large. Some have suggested it might be the model. Mine is a Mazda 6 estate from 2006.
Al C I don't know. Some have suggested it might be the model. Mine is a Mazda 6 estate from 2006.
I found it on my 20007 Tamura. It's very close to the outer edge of the engine bay. Much closer to the windscreen that you expect.
i will never buy a mazda car again.
+tom ato Yeah, I got pretty torqued too. I settled down quite a bit once my car got over 180k miles on it. My car looks and runs good at 180k so I will cut Mazda some slack. Also, once you have replaced your 5th light bulb you get pretty good and quick at it. Good luck.
+tom ato Not as bad a Cadillac. Local mechanic charges 800 for a light bulb change. Look up the videos. You'll cry.
Cx7? That car needs shit ton of maintenance. The engine likes to leak.
s c this design SUCKS. Absolutely lost me buying another Mazda for this reason
Jeez...no wonder the dealership charged me damn near $50 to change it....sounds/looks like a beating
What a helpful video! Why do manufacturers insist on making today's cars impossible to work on? Why should I pay a shop big $ to change a friggin headlamp? What rip offs! Thanks for saving me great expense and "dealing with shop" hassle!
i have this car is good to know the dealer want 120 $ for change the bulb now is free thanks
I'm getting tired of replacing those low beams,its bs that they keep going out. Ridiculous. I've never had to replace low beams twice a yr,or even once a year on any car I've owned except this Mazda 6 2012
then it is most likely something wrong with the ballast
Dawn Wells, If you are using Halogen blubs you cannot touch the bulbs with your bare hands. Use gloves. The oils from your skin will burn and blow out the filament.
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Ha I have the HID bulbs and one just went from white to purple, which means its going out. Dealer wants $335 per bulb to replace. Ha ha I think not. Ebay here I come
100 dollars at Auto part store...just picked some up.
That sucks. Talk about a design flaw. I feel bad for the people with this car
mazda make every little things s0 damn complicated..
...to make the big things easier. Engine bay room is excellent. I used to have gm, 80's and 90's and they were pretty narly to work on. I still don't mnow why gm would leave knifelike steel pertrusions everywhere.... i bet they are better now just haven't seen one apart in a while.
Maybe we should hire mechanics to be car designers and engineers? Taking a tire off, risking injury to change a light bulb? Really?
There is NO REASON to remove anything. You can just reach with your hand on both sides. You’re just making more work for yourself.
Great. Glad to learn how. Can u make a quick video or at least a written how-to?
Edit! Just realized it only works on the european model.... ua-cam.com/video/nFh9JufbEMM/v-deo.html
Absolutly right. Just did it, took under 5 minuttes. Use a glowe if you don't want to scrabe your hand/arms. It's tight but perfectly straight forward. The front markers are more of a hazzle, very tight when you have to tighten them again.
No more mazda for me.
Do you think this is the same for a 2008? WTF???? What in the name of all that is holy were they thinking making it this complicated to change a light bulb? I am female and trying to learn to be handy.
I will probably be dead within 5 minutes of trying this shit.
sorry for cussing.
omg the nerf football! lol
omg this is bo bad. i dont like how those cars are made. really difficult change a bulb.
Been there, done that, got the hat and tee shirt.. Horrible procedure, but it's easier then taking the bumper off. So crabby. Such a bad design. Boo Mazda BOOO! What is even worse is even with new bulbs the low beam visibility is extremely poor. Just a bad job of engineering. This vehicle is unsafe with the poor projection of the low beam halogen bulbs .
Why does everything on this car have to be such a pain? I dont own one but have done several things on a friends car. I would NEVER recommend this car to anybody.
Because they drive like a Dream... at least my Mazda 6 sport and Mazda 3 sport do anyway...