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Test driving new to us 2006 SC a couple of weeks back and drive it for first time after dark. Low beams might as well not have been on - I stopped and checked. What light there was all went to the ground 10 feet or closer to the front bumper. I gingerly drove home using high beams as much as possible.
Against the garage door the upper cut off for the low beams looked correct, but there was very little light. I searched the board here, and the next day I checked out the car. Left low beam lamp was installed upside down, wedging it badly out of position. Right low beam lamp retainer clip was missing, and it too was badly out of position. I corrected the left lamp, but I didn't know what I'd do while I waited for back-ordered bulb retaining springs.
My work-around was a clean new tennis ball - about 1/3 of a ball pressed inside the rubber cover held the lamp in place for almost two weeks - got the spring retainer yesterday and put it in today. Boy, putting the new spring into the headlamp was a challenge - must have taken me twenty minutes with a bent needle nose pliers, light, and mirror. When it finally snapped into place it felt like a small miracle.
Question: Are the non-halogen high beam bulbs really just "push in" the way the owner manual says? I didn't touch them yet, but what I read sounds almost too good to be true.
Hope this post will help those with a lost spring.
Mark in Marine (MN)
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