It doesn’t matter if it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being certain your headlamp bulbs are always working is extremely important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will definitely burn out as time passes and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re almost certainly on this site because one of your position lamp is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change the bulb of my Cadillac SRX parking light, we’ve written this content page to help you do this action without any help and not need to go to your mechanic. In a first part, we will take a look at swapping the front daytime running light bulb of your car and in a second section, how to replace the rear daytime running light.
How to replace the front parking light bulb of my Cadillac SRX?
We will begin this content page with replacing the front daytime running light bulb of your Cadillac SRX, bear in mind that according to the year and finish of your car it may not be quite the same methodology to use. Indeed, regardless if the position of your bulb is not going to change, the access may be more or less complex based on the features of your car.
First methodology, we will conduct the bulb swap of your daytime running light without removing the headlight of your Cadillac SRX. Although this method is the simplest, it is not guaranteed that you will be able to do it on your vehicle without trouble. Indeed, based on the options and the year, on some models there will not be enough space for you to replace the bulb that way. Here are the two distinct ways to replace the bulb of the front parking light of your Cadillac SRX:.
- Going through the bonnet of your car: First solution, you will simply go through the bonnet of your vehicle to direct access your headlight unit. This is the most rational technique but it is not always easy to realise, sometimes because of secondary auto parts that will obstruct your access. To accomplish this, here are the steps to carry out. First, with the engine off, disconnect the terminals of your battery to avoid any short circuit or risk of electrocution. Now that this step has been completed, you will need to access the back of your headlight unit to replace the daytime running light bulb on your Cadillac SRX. You might need to remove the battery for easier access. In this case, you will need to open the bulb protection cap on your headlight (¼ in most cases does the job), then you will need to remove the bulb socket from its area. To accomplish this, pull gently on the socket and not on the wires (you risk damaging them), at last now that the socket is out, you can replace your parking lamps bulb, being vigilant not to damage the wires and use a cloth to avoid dirtying your new bulb. Once completed, reassemble the system, reconnect your battery and do a check test before taking to the road.
- By removing the crosshair grill and the headlight:
- Second option, you can remove the headlight of your Cadillac SRX if it turns out the access through the engine block seems too complicated. To do so, you just have to open your bonnet, remove the front grill held by only a few torx screws, then remove the headlight in question. Once these steps are done you will just have to stick to the same technique as on the previous section to replace the front daytime running light bulb of your Cadillac SRX
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How to replace the rear parking light bulb on your Cadillac SRX
Finally, if you want to swap the rear parking light bulb of your Cadillac SRX the methodology is less difficult, here are the different actions to stick to to allow you to swap this bulb:
- Disconnect your battery
- Get the floorboards out of the trunk.
- Unscrew the back cover of the headlight unit from your car.
- After locating the rear position lamps bulb on your car, remove the burnt-out bulb.
- Insert your new parking light bulb into the headlamp assembly on your car
- Reassemble the whole thing.
Verify that your parking lights are operating properly again before you set off again and you’re done. If you want to change the fog light bulb on your Cadillac SRX, please go through our dedicated article to find out how to do it.
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