2005 Nissan Altima headlight assembly install

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mnsteelers
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Car: 2005 Nissan Altima

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I wanted to share this with the people looking to install new headlight assemblies (lens, bulbs) in their Altima.

The job took about 2 1/2 hours. I purchased the assemblies L and R from autolightsbulbs.com. The part # was K1108042. The price was right around $100 for both. There are 3 wiring or harness connectors on the back on the assembly. On both the L and R, the brown connector was not engineered correctly. The wiring connection does not line up. If you want to use the part noted above, you'll have to splice your old brown connector onto the new assembly. On both the L and R, it screws onto the assembly. It's not that hard but takes extra time. The old wiring which is no longer used: I taped the wires together with electrical tape and put liquid tape on the exposed wiring where it was cut. Note: I tested the lights and everything works (LB, HB, turn signals).

The instructions below are very good and you should have no problems doing the job yourself. Tools needed: 21mm socket for lug nuts, 10mm socket, phillips head screw driver, flat head screw driver, jack and jack stands.

link to instructions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqVMmFCrtfo
http://nissanhelp.com/diy/altima/projec ... cement.php


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Thanks for the writeup! Welcome to NICO!

Things like this are always awesome for anyone else that stumbles in here looking for help. We like to have as much of this stuff as we can get!


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