996/986 headlight locking device replacement (yellow clip)
996/986 headlight locking device replacement (yellow clip)
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will_968

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2,138 posts

285 months

Tuesday 22nd September 2020
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When replacing the bulbs in my headlights I managed to lose one of the yellow locking clip that holds the female socket in the bracket that the headlight plugs into with them you slide it back in. I've bought a new one, but am having trouble fitting it. I can't see how either the yellow clip fits to the bracket on the car, or what orientation it fits onto the blue plug.

Can anyone provide a dummy guide how I remount the socket into the bracket?

MarcusPD

48 posts

67 months

Tuesday 22nd September 2020
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Looking from the hole the headlight goes into, they go behind the bracket, in from the bottom and slide up over the blue connector to be into locked position. If I remember from 2 weeks ago, there's a tab at the bottom you push to lock it into place.

At the worst, pop the other headlight out to check.

will_968

Original Poster:

2,138 posts

285 months

Tuesday 22nd September 2020
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OK; so I hold the blue plug in the bracket from behind and then slide the yellow clip up from below behind the bracket too? Do you know if the arm of the yellow clip goes on the inside or outside edge?

Had the other light out to try and see how that works, but couldn't see how the whole thing locked together or came apart.