GM Service Manual Online
For 1990-2009 cars only
Makes
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Buick
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2005
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Rendezvous - AWD
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Service and Appearance Care
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Bulb Replacement
🢒 Headlamps, Front Turn Signal, Sidemarker, and Parking Lamps
Open the hood. See
Hood Release
for more information.
Push in on the headlamp panel and lift up the headlamp retaining clip partway, but do not remove.
Remove the wing stud on the upper, outboard side of the lamp assembly.
Unsnap the headlamp assembly by pulling it forward, away from the vehicle.
Disconnect the electrical connector by pulling back on the locking tab, located on the electrical connector, to separate the two connectors.
Turn the bulb socket one-quarter of a turn clockwise.
Pull the bulb assembly out from the lamp housing.
Unhook the electrical connector by lifting up the gray tabs and separate the connector from the bulb base.
Install the appropriate new bulb into the electrical connector. Push the bulb firmly enough so that the gray tabs hook over the tab on the bulb.
Put the bulb assembly back into the lamp housing and turn the bulb socket one-quarter of a turn counterclockwise.
Align the retaining clips on the back of the headlamp with the rectangular holes in the mounting panel.
Push firmly on both ends of the headlamp to snap it into position.
Push the retaining clip down to its original position.
Reinstall the wing stud.