This might sound stupid... but do you have a DIY removing the housing and installing the new housing??

 

Here you go...

Here is a night shot, of the City Lights. I have Superwhite 194 bulbs.


Here is a picture of the lights about 20-30ft in front of a white wall. You'll notice the blue light at the cutoff. I compared it to that of my wife's TL, and it is almost identicle. I'm running Philips 4300k D2S bulbs.


Here is a picture I took of the lowbeams, on the backroads by my house. Notice the sharp cutoff on either side of the road, on the vegitation.


Same location, but this time with the highbeams on. There is an open field on either side of the road behind the vegitation, but at least you can see the field of view of the lights is much bigger. (Yes, I'm at a complete stop, on a road with a 50mph speed limit, but there are no cars )

 

I thought about doing this, with a step by step, as I was doing it, but I was much too excited when I got the assemblies, to bother with a camera...

But from memory:

Then remove the 4 clips holding the front grill. There is one clip on each side of the grill, that is inside a slot, that if you use a flashlight to look into, will look like a square-shaped flat head screw. Turn it 1/4 turn to unlock it.

To tackle the 4 or 5 lower fasteners, I found it easiest, to just use a flat-head screwdriver, and use it to push up on the locking tabs, on the underside of the plastic tab. It will make a "click" sound when it "unlatches". When you do this for all the lower tabs, the grill will pull out very easily.

There are 6 or 7 clips on the wheel-well lining. 2 of these clips are underneath the under-side-engine cover. There is one screw near the top part of the wheel-well-lining. I also had to remove the screw holding the factory lip to the wheel-well-lining.

Then remove all the front bolts of the under-engine-cover. I think there are like 14, including the air-dam bolts.

There is one clip on each side of the grill, holding the bumper skin.

To remove the wheel-well-lining, pull it down and out. You will have to pull it out from under the rear-portion of the wheel-well-liner. On the bottom side, you have to pull it out from under the engine-cover.

After you remove the wheel-well-lining, there are two bolts holding the bumperskin to the fender. one is next to where the clearance light is, the other is a few inches in front of it.

I found that I didn't actually have to remove the bumper skin. I just removed it enough to uncover the 2 main bolts holding the lower portion of the headlight assemblies. So I unbolted the bumperskin at the fender of only one side at a time, then pulled the bumper skin off a few inches to uncover the headlight bolts.

One of the bolts is behind the foam, but I just used a universal join socket adapter, and it came out without any issues. In my case, I was too lazy to want to actually remove the bumper skin, for fear of not being able to get it back on straight (it was 1am while I was doing all this), but in retrospect it was so easy, I may as well have just removed the bumper skin. Since I was in a closed garage, I was a little space-constrained, so I opted not to.

There are two bolts on the lower front of the headlights, and one on the lower side, next to where the clearance lights would be. The last bolt is on top of the assembly. Leave the top bolt in, while you unhook the electrical harness, as it will make it easier. (at least it did for me). The latch for the harness is small, and I found it to be tight. So I used a pair of plyers to hold the harness, while I used a screwdriver to push up on the locking tab. The shape of the harness looks like this is how it was designed to come off.

Once I removed the harness, I removed the upper bolt, and the whole light will come straight out.

Then plop the new assemblies in, bolt it up, attach the harness, and put everything back together. Test the lights before you put the wheel-well-liners back on, as it will save you a lot of time. In my case, I thought my D2S bulb was burnt out, but it turns out I neglected to line up the notch on the headlight socket, when I installed the bulbs, such that the socket wasn't on all the way....

 

AVS007,

Thank you for the pics. and the instruction!! They really look great! There is a day and night difference....light is a lot sharper.

Hate to be a pain, but one clarification question. If you were to look at the projectors head on would see the spectrum effect (seeing a purplish color cause by the different angles of the lens) just like the TL, BMW's or S2000? A head on pic with the projectors on would help answer my question.

 

Yes, they did give a slight blue/purple effect at different angles. I made sure of that, by driving in front of a glass building at night. I tried to take a picture of it, but the direct light just came out as a big white spot on the camera. When I played around with the shutterspeed and such, it ended up making the whole light look purple, which wasn't right.

 

Thank you!!! Really appriciated!!

 

AVS0007,

Thanks for your responses...it is much appreciated! Knowing what you told me helps me with my decision to buy the headlamps.

 

i want these lights now more then ever! it is truly night and day difference..WOW!

 

That picture of the citylight looks hot!!!! I am glad I got some hyperwhites to put in mine, but now I am debating if I should get hyperwhites in the corners too instead of the amber. It would look nice to have only one color with the park lights on instead of the white and amber. Hmmm.....tough choice.

 

did they not delete the clearance lights on the 06 light

 

hey guys~~~~~ are those 06 head light.... OEM PARTS? or its after market? .... and if swapping to 06 head light... would that affect your warantee? ......

I just called the dealer today..... and they were giving me some b.s ... they would not recommend it b/c of the wiring.... and they don't think it even possible.... can anyone please give me more insights..... cause i thought this 06 headlights was just plug and play?

 

YES but he did installed it on an older car so he still had wires from the clearance strip.

Those are oem 06 lights, its plug and play. Dont listen to stealership b.s. Its been done many times by people on the forum. Do a search and you will find the details

 

Yes, it's OEM. No it won't effect the warranty, becuase you aren't modifying anything. It's the same harness. The bulbs are all the same wattage too.

This is no different then when on my other car I replaced the A/C blower motor. They redesigned the motor and cooling hose design on later model years, but didn't make the older ones anymore. So I installed the newer one, which was a drop in replacement.

If there was really a design change that would make it "unsafe" for older applications, then they should've changed the harness and not make it a plug-in-replacement.

Your dealer is full of it. Why would it be not recommended becuase of the wiring? The wiring is integrated into the assemblies, so when you put 06' lights in, you are putting in 06' wiring too. It plugs straight to your existing harness. All the bulbs are the same wattage, so load will not change.

 

Actually, they did not "Delete" the clearance strip. The city lights just took it's place. It even uses the same bulb.

To clear everyone else's confusion, Infiniti's headlight assemblies are not like typical headlight assemblies, where you have separate harnesses for each light. There is only one harness on the assembly that plugs into the car. The assembly has it's own "wiring" to connect all the bulbs. This is why the city lights, bi-xenon brights, etc all continue to function. All the car does, is tell the assemblies it wants fogs, parking lights, turn signals, lowbeams, or highbeams. The assemblies figure out which/how to light the bulbs.

Your dealership is probably confused because they've never seen the 06' lights before. That's how my dealership was. They said the never ordered an 06' light before, so they didn't know what it came with, so assumed it was just the assemblies with no wires, ballasts, etc. When I received the lights, it looks to be impossible to get an assembly without the wires, because they are integrated. You'd have to bust the lights open to add the wiring later. My dealership hasn't even received any 06' coupes in, so they didn't even know the lights were different. They kept offering to order the 05' lights for me

They asked for my vin number, because they thought I crashed an 06' coupe. When I called a dealer in CA, they knew I was retrofitting them into an 03-05' before I even said anything, and even pointed out that I'd need to buy DS2 bulbs, not D2R bulbs. They were more knowledgable, and assured me they came with everything I needed to just plug em' in.

 

Thanks so much~ ya my dealer is screwed up.. man they were quoting me like $4000~~ i was like come on.... you guys don't know your stuff here..... .. so just to get this straight... so i get get the parts.. and can just install them plug and play right.... and warantee wouldn't affect it correct?