anyone know how to change the head light bulbs on the
mark 2, had a look in the haynes manual and it says to undo the front bumper????
Cheers

The owners manual has a pretty good (but basic) description. It can depend on the model though, as I can't change the dipped bulb on my JTD as the air filter is in the way and I'm a nancy when it comes to removing bits of engine

There should be some black plastic covers at the rear of the light fitting with metal clips holding them in. Simply undo the clips and voila!

chaning the bulbs is a pain in the ass depending on wich one. it is. if its drivers side then its easy there are 2 clips you und and then pull back off. then you release the bulb and change without touching the bulb of course.

if its the passenger side the problem is teh lack of space, when i done mine i loosend the fuse box and moved it back wich gave me just enogh room, allthough i did lose the skin on my knuckles. other on here have unbolted the light and pulled it forward.

I tried loosening the fusebox and loosening the actual headlight unit but still found that the room was still tight. If you feel confident in removing the front bumper then do so. Should take about 15mins to remove the bumper, change the bulbs and re-fix the bumper.

Stupid design from Fiat. the thing that is gonna need changed most on a car and they hide it behind a bumper lol

I managed to do it with removing the fuse box cover and loosening the box itself a bit. My knuckles were a bit sore afterwards but I got the bulb out and replaced it OK - but there was a bit of swearing

ne1l said:

Stupid design from Fiat. the thing that is gonna need changed most on a car and they hide it behind a bumper lol

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only the Italian's could desigin something like that :bang:

thanks for the help guys,

As stated, it does depend on the model though.

On my active sport (with foglights) I found it easiest to just remove the bolts holding the passenger side unit and pull it forward a bit. Drivers side is easy enough though.

On my girlfriend's active though, for some reason it wasn't as easy to pull the light forward on the passenger side.

i went to fit these to my car today,
but the osram bulbs have 2 prongs/connectors coming out of the bottom of them, but on my cars light bulb's only has one?
could you please help.

Wrong bulb?!

Is your car an active sport or sporting by any chance?

no, just a standard 2001 (51-reg) 8v, could it be that my car takes H1??

Do you have the integrated foglights?

Everything everywhere says that it should be H7 for the Punto but mine are H1.

Contrary to the "I'm sure they won't be" comments from the "expert" bulb retailers.

Where did you get your bulbs?

ive got the fog light space in my lights but no bulb/wiring,
got the bulbs from ebay shop, he just e-maild me says that i might need H1 type bulbs?

Here we go:

H7 and H1

yep mines def. H1, the bloke i got mine off has only got osram "cool blue" left in H1, he will swap them for the silverstar H7, but dose anyone know if the cool-blue are any good.

Mr Coats - cheers for the help

yep the head lighst bulbs used in puntos sems to be very random some cars are h7 soem h1 only way to make sure is look the boks are never right.

yah, you can never trust fiat.