My Stealership Story (Blacked out Headlights related)

derekabraham · Feb 22, 2010

Kicker_Of_Elves[OP] said: ↑

That's what sucks, just bout all of the guys i know are big fuckers. The one skinny guy i'm good buds with knows his way around cars but bitches like a motherfucker and i don't think i could handle it
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I don't have skinny arms and I got them out. It hurt though.

Evil Monkey · Feb 22, 2010

Lurkin said: ↑

You've already heard about finding someone to get the bolt out from the bottom. I'm a big guy myself and can still get a shorty rachet and socket in that spot to remove the bolt, just takes a bit of feeling around and a few scratches.

If you still want to do it yourself though, you can remove the bumper cover yourself, swap the lights, then reinstall the cover. The FSM, or the install instructions for the Grillcraft lower grill, tells you how the cover comes off/on. It's really not that bad to do yourself. I'd say it takes an hour, or so, to remove, replace the lights (VERY easy with the cover off), and replace the cover. An extra set of hands helps, but I did it by myself when installing my Grillcraft. That's when I noticed how easily the HLs could be changed with the cover off.
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Ditto this. I took my bumper cover off myself to install the lower grillcraft. It's not that hard. Definitely not a 2.5 hr job.

DeeKay21 · Feb 22, 2010

Yeah $260 is a friggin joke!! I would have slapped that guy in the face for even saying something like that!!! I would go do it for you to if you lived closer!!! I just took mine out the other day to reseal one of them and it wasnt hard for me at all.

Lurkin · Feb 23, 2010

I would assume that the 2.5 hours was from the mechanics "book" on the time that can be charged when R/R the bumper cover and HLs. Some places aren't capable of doing anything that takes some thought about the best way to get something done, vs. the way it's "documented" to be done. As you've seen, if they can't figure that out, you might not want to go there.

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