Author Topic: Bought my 2005 Mazda 6 and one headlight dipped beam didn't work....  (Read 4185 times)

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Offline Tiggz

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  • Year: 2005
Did some googling, replaced the bulb and no, nothing, dead as a dodo.....

So good old eBay and a lucky tax rebate and got two replacement headlights from a breaker for about £100.

Replaced the passenger light first (as was the dead side) and omg, amazing light output, so the old one must have had a dead ballast.

Then noticed the driver side wasn't as bright, so swapped today and there like football stadium flood lights there so good!

The ballast packs flickering or just poor output and just replace the light unit!

Out of all My old cars, only one has had such good lights, that was my Audi A4 that saved my life, (big crash) but still think there better on the 6!

I didn't remove the bumper, I undid half the bumper and gently twisted it into remove bolts.
Passenger side harder to get out as the air on fouls it massively! But the grill has to come off to do the drivers side!