Nothing is durable in a car. Each detail has its own work limit. The owner of the Chevrolet Lanos will periodically have to deal with minor repairs that can be done on their own. One of these operations is replacing the lamp in the headlights of a car: whether it is a high beam, low beam or side lamp.
Replacing a lamp in some other car is a relatively simple operation: raise the hood, remove the lamp from the socket, replace it with a working one and close the hood. To replace the lamps in a Chevrolet Lanos headlight, you need to remove its housing with the contents from the car body. You can try to replace it without removing the headlight unit, but then there is a possibility of damage to the unit parts, which will entail either the housing repair or its replacement.
To remove the headlamp housing from its location, you need a 10 wrench, with which we unscrew two bolts and a nut. A socket wrench is best suited for this job. The bolts are easy to find, they are immediately visible and they attach the headlight unit to the top of the bar above it. The nut is more difficult to find, since it is located between the headlight housing and the radiator and closes it from the car owner of the wires in the harness.
After unscrewing the bolts and nut, we take out the headlight unit from the attachment point. To do this, raise the body to the top and remove it from the slot towards the wing of the car. Carefully remove the pin to which the headlight unit was attached to the nut and take out the unit body by fifteen centimeters to disconnect the wires.
Consider the example of the right headlight (when viewed in the direction of the vehicle). The wires are connected in two places in the body: in the middle and at the near edge from the radiator of the machine. We carefully disconnect the middle block, and the last one, which supplies electricity to the cornering lamp, can not be disconnected, but remove the contact block with the lamp. To do this, you need to turn the gray socket with the lamp counterclockwise forty-five degrees. To remove the central block of contacts, you need to press the latch at the top of the block and carefully remove it.
After disconnecting the wires, we put the headlight housing on a workbench or table for more convenient work with it, optical elements from ourselves. We see on the left the connector for the cornering lamp, then the round cover of the high-beam lamp compartment, behind it is the contact block, and on the right is the cover of the dipped-beam lamp compartment and the lamp of dimensions.
Carefully remove the cover of the low-beam section and see the block of the low-beam lamp, and to the right the mounting of the side light lamp. Then we replace the faulty low beam lamp.
But when installing, be careful, since the lamp, due to the design of the headlight unit, can be installed in two positions, but it must be installed in the correct position. If installed incorrectly, the low beam of the car will dazzle the drivers of oncoming traffic, creating emergency situations. Therefore, when installing, make sure that the low beam lamp is installed in the diffuser with the projection upwards.
It is imperative to assemble the headlight in the reverse order of disassembly. The assembled headlight unit should not be fixed immediately, but it is better to first check the correct installation and operability of all lamps and in the desired mode. If everything is in order and works in the correct mode, then reliably install the case in place and happy journey.
