Insane price for high beam bulb installation at dealer.

[scottdk]

I was at my dealer today to get my car washed and I stopped in the service center to see what they would charge to put in a new set of high beam bulbs that I would provide (upgraded bulbs).

They said that the front bumper has to come off the car and in order to get to the bulb fixture, as this is also the same for the Azera.

The quote: $200 at minimum!

WTF,

I'll live since I will find a way myself once I get to know under the hood more this summer.

 

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

I was at my dealer today to get my car washed and I stopped in the service center to see what they would charge to put in a new set of high beam bulbs that I would provide (upgraded bulbs).

They said that the front bumper has to come off the car and in order to get to the bulb fixture, as this is also the same for the Azera.

The quote: $200 at minimum!

WTF,

I'll live since I will find a way myself once I get to know under the hood more this summer.

Not surprising to me. My Passat also required bumper removal to change a Xenon that blew at 9,000 miles. No charge because of warranty, but it took over 2 hours to do it. For "elective surgery" $200 sounds reasonable.

 

[Blackout]

What a stupid design. How the hell could you actually design a car and make it a few hour job to replace a part that is one of the most replaced parts on a car? It would be like designing an engine and having the oil filter be located inside of the engine

 

[BaywayRic]

Reading this thread is a whole lot cheaper!

http://www.genesisowners.com/hyunda...ead.php?p=15219&highlight=headlight#post15219

 

[PINGGOLF]

YERP!

I'm not sure I would go back to that dealer Scott. You do not have to remove the bumper.

I am fixing to order different HID bulbs and plan on changing them out within the month.

HMASERVICE.com says to remove a few screws and a tab and the assemble will come off easily. of course, I have yet to try it because it looks so easy.

 

[scottdk]

YERP!

I'm not sure I would go back to that dealer Scott. You do not have to remove the bumper.

I am fixing to order different HID bulbs and plan on changing them out within the month.

HMASERVICE.com says to remove a few screws and a tab and the assemble will come off easily. of course, I have yet to try it because it looks so easy.

Ok, well I will see what you think of it when you do it and go from there.

Let me know how it goes.

Thanks a ton

 

[PINGGOLF]

Will do! Pictures and all!!

 

[GS300rich]

why would they want to remove the bumper when the bulbs are behind the headlights in the engine bay? Just remove the plastic shroud in the engine bay to get to the area where the bulbs are

 

[Gimli]

why would they want to remove the bumper when the bulbs are behind the headlights in the engine bay? Just remove the plastic shroud in the engine bay to get to the area where the bulbs are

Probably because the shroud is actually attached to the bumper skin so strongly that some people may think it's only one piece.

I ended up breaking a couple of tabs when I pulled the shroud off.

 

[GS300rich]

I was just reading in another thread by a member who changed out his HID bulbs and he says you have to remove the bumper to remove the headlights in order to change the HID bulbs. This sounds crazy and poorly designed if its true. I can understand removing airboxes and such to get access but to have to remove, or at least drop the bumper down to replace bulbs is not good design at all

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[JOwest]

Cars should be designed for reliability as well as easy maintenance. Hard to service increase the total cost of ownership.

 

[PINGGOLF]

I was just reading in another thread by a member who changed out his HID bulbs and he says you have to remove the bumper to remove the headlights in order to change the HID bulbs. This sounds crazy and poorly designed if its true. I can understand removing airboxes and such to get access but to have to remove, or at least drop the bumper down to replace bulbs is not good design at all

I agree. I still wonder why on HMASERVICE.COM that they show bulb replacement as 2-3 screws and a tab to remove the assembly. They show nothing or even hint that bumper removal is mandatory...or even needed????

I reckon I should go on and check it out myself...

are we missing something here MADMOE? Why did you have to drop the bumper?

 

[GS300rich]

I guess we can just try to follow the hmaservice site and see if it works. I'm not planning on changing out the bulbs any time soon but maybe someone that is going to 6000k can follow the hmaservice way and let us know if it works

 

[scottdk]

Well as you may have seen in the other thread about this issue, the High beam bulbs are easy to replace once you unbolt the air cleaner assembly 1 bolt, and the fuse panel on the drivers side which is 3 bolts. It only took me about 20 minutes to replace the bulbs including the stock yellow wedge bulbs next to the high beam bulbs.

Hope this info helps.........

Screw the dealers front bumper removal and $200 charge!

 

[jonah]

hey scott, glad to hear you got your high beams replaced; how 'bout some pics?!

I have a question about the install. I was working on the position lights and had taken the bracket off the high beam. Now I can't figure out how to get the damn thing back on. It's not just unclipped from the top screw, the whole piece of wire is off. Did you take yours completely off to change the bulb? Or just swing it down? Was it hard to get back on? Maybe there's something simple I'm just missing. Thanks man.

 

[scottdk]

hey scott, glad to hear you got your high beams replaced; how 'bout some pics?!

I have a question about the install. I was working on the position lights and had taken the bracket off the high beam. Now I can't figure out how to get the damn thing back on. It's not just unclipped from the top screw, the whole piece of wire is off. Did you take yours completely off to change the bulb? Or just swing it down? Was it hard to get back on? Maybe there's something simple I'm just missing. Thanks man.

I ordered a digital camera from Amazon.com and will post pics once I get the camera. I'm tired of taking pics with my cell phone.

My 2003 Elantra had the same setup for low and high beams. What I learned the hard way on the Elantra is that there is no need to take off the metal wire bracket which holds the bulbs securely in place. Just need to unhook the one side (don't remove the screw on the other side, it's not needed) which will let the metal bracket hang so you are able to pull the bulb out to replace.

I'm assuming the position lights are the bulbs next to the high beam that I replaced with LED's. To change these, you only need to pull out the plastic connector from the back of the high beam bulbs, which gives you more room to work and this will give you access to the position bulbs to pull out. I used a needle nose pliers, which made it easy to pull out the bulbs etc.

Hope this helps