Headlight removal?
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PatriotBMW
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Headlight removal?
I bent the female prong on my last low beam replacement on my 2014, it's not ruined but it will need to get bent back and everything tells me it'll require a full headlight removal to do correctly. For now, the bulb is held in with one prong with no problems and I plan to fix the prong when it's too cold to ride. Does anyone have advice or parts removal process for the headlight assembly?
Last edited by PatriotBMW on Fri Dec 23, 2016 3:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
2014 R1200RT
Re: Headlight removal?
I had the same problem from the factory on my 2016.
I decided to remove the headlight assembly to install an LED bulb.
It is an easy task, you just have to take your time. It took me approx 2 hrs to remove & reinstall with sometime looking at the LED lamp replacement installed to see what I might have to do.
You will find that you have to remove the L/R upper panels, then move to the Screen, & then the panels under that. Just make sure you have all screws removed on panels that seem not to want to come off. If I remember there is 1 panel that when you have removed the visible screws doesn't want to come off, it is held on via post /grommet...I think it was the cover panel under the screen.
I decided to remove the headlight assembly to install an LED bulb.
It is an easy task, you just have to take your time. It took me approx 2 hrs to remove & reinstall with sometime looking at the LED lamp replacement installed to see what I might have to do.
You will find that you have to remove the L/R upper panels, then move to the Screen, & then the panels under that. Just make sure you have all screws removed on panels that seem not to want to come off. If I remember there is 1 panel that when you have removed the visible screws doesn't want to come off, it is held on via post /grommet...I think it was the cover panel under the screen.