How to Connect a Headlight to a Retainer

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Summary: Reconnecting the light to the retainer when replacing a headlight. Learn how to replace a car's headlights in this free video on auto repair.

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Nathan McCullough Nathan McCullough graduated from Nashville Auto-Diesel College with a GPA of 3.5 and received their Craftsmanship Award and Honor Seal. Nathan has managed sev... read more

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How to Connect a Headlight to a Retainer

In this clip we're going to talk about the proper way to remove and replace a burned out headlight on a 2000 Dodge Stratus. In this step we're going to talk about the proper way to reassemble your light bulb to the retainer to the electrical connection and one tip for you, the bulb life will be drastically reduced if you happen to touch the glass. What that will do, the oil in your fingers will create resistance for the light coming out and that will overheat the glass and cause it to burn up. So you never want to touch that surface. If you do by accident take some rubbing alcohol and clean your fingerprints off of there. That will make sure you get the life out of the bulb that it was designed to have. Pretty much what you do is you take and insert it just like so into the retainer. You're going to make a sandwich out of the retainer with the bulb and your electrical connector. You take and plug it in and you hear the click. That means it's seated properly. You can take a look and make sure that little ridge that I pointed out to you is captured by the retaining clip. That is the proper way to reassemble your vehicle's bulb, retainer and electrical components.