How to Replace Headlight Bulbs 2011-16 Subaru Impreza

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You'll start by finding the hood latch right under the dash on the left side. At the front of the car, right in the center on the bottom side behind the grill, there's a latch right here, which will release the hood.

The high beam is located right here. To remove it, you want to press the tab right on the clip, and you can pop it right off like that. With the connector out of the way, you can turn the connector or the bulb up about 45 degrees and pull it straight out of the housing. You never ever want to touch the glass of the bulb housing because it will actually shorten the life of the bulb itself, so always wear gloves and make sure you stay away from the glass.

Putting it back in, you'll slide it right into the housing, lining up the three tabs that are on the bulb, have the connector face the engine, and then turn it about 45 degrees down until it snaps into place. From there, you can slide the connector on, make sure it's snug, and you're all done.

Right here is your low beam headlight. To remove the headlight bulb, you press the tab on the connector and push the connector right off the bulb just like that. At that point, you can turn the bulb about 45 degrees straight down and pull it out of the headlight housing like this. When you're installing the bulb, make sure you don't touch the glass of the headlight bulb because that will shorten the life of it. You'll slide it right back through here, weave your way behind this washer bottle, and push the bulb into the housing.

You want the connector to face downward, and then you'll push it up towards the driver's side of the vehicle, about 45 degrees until it latches in place. At that point, you can slide the connector on like so until it snaps into place. When it's tight, you'll have a new headlight bulb in place.

To access the lights on the side of the headlight, we need to remove the cover on the side of the fender so that we can reach our arm down there and grab those bulbs. We'll start with a flat tip screwdriver and pop the center out of these clips that releases them. There's two of them. Once you pull those out, you can take this cover right off the fender. All right. Now you can reach your arm right into the fender, and the easiest one to pull out is right here. You can turn it about 45 degrees and pull it straight out of the headlight housing and then hand it to your other hand or a friend and pull it right out. The bulb itself, it just pushes into place. It's a 194 bulb, and it just pops right back into the housing. Super easy to replace and super cheap. You can see it has tabs on it where it locks into the housing. We'll slide it back into the housing. Once it's back in the housing, you should be able to turn it about 45 degrees once you have it lined up in the right spot.

The uppermost bulb is right here. It's a little tough to get your hands on, but you just need to turn it counterclockwise about 45 degrees to pop it out. You might need two hands to do it. Once you've turned it the 90 degrees or 45 degrees, you can pop it right out of the housing and access the bulb. The bulb pulls straight out. It's a simple 194 bulb. It pops right back in the housing like that. At this point, you can push it right back into the headlight, line it up the same way it came out, and then turn it until it snaps into place. This one is pretty difficult to access with your hand and to see, so we're going to use a long screwdriver. We can feed it right down here and pry up on this, on the bulb, to turn it. There we go. Once we've turned it about 45 degrees, we can reach right in here and pull it right out of the housing, just like that. Once it's out of the housing, you can pull the bulb out to replace it.

Putting it back in is just as simple as taking it out. It just snaps right into place. Now you're going to want to reach in here with your right hand and feed the bulb back into the hole. It's a little tricky to access. You have to use the tips of your fingers to get it in there. Once you have it in place, you should be able to use your flat tip screwdriver to turn it just like how you took it out. When you get the bulb in, you'll see that the socket is horizontal, and that's how you know that it's in correctly. If you're fighting with it and it doesn't seem to want to snap into place, it may not be set up horizontally. You'll put it in about 90 degrees off of horizontal, and you'll turn it clockwise until it sits horizontally.

With the bulbs replaced, you can now snap this cover back into its home. You're going to want to tuck it under the fender in the back and the side first, and then you can line up the holes to put the clips back in. Make sure the center of the clip is pulled out, and then you can slide it into the hole. Then you'll push the center in to lock it in place.

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