How do you remove the headlight bulb from a 2005 Dodge Ram 1500?

Answer 1

You have to remove the entire headlight assembly to change the bulbs. Be careful not to touch the glass on the bulb, as the oil from you skin will shorten the life or break the bulb when it heats up. According to the manual and from what I've seen, there is two bolts on the inner side of the headlight assembly that need to be remove, then there is what looks like a cover with a plastic philip's screw that needs to be removed. Then towards the outer side and underneath of the headlights, between the front bumper there is another bolt that you will have to remove. This is about how far I got on the driver's side headlight, I wasn't able to remove it, because it looks like it's caught on something. From what I could tell, behind the headlight, on the outer side, it looks like there is a small box, maybe 1"x.5"x.5" and it has a clip on the top and bottom. I can't tell for sure if you need to push this through but it looks like it's part of the headlight. It should then just pull forward. I used a 10mm socket on the bolts and that seemed to work. I'm sure there is a standard socket that works better instead of metric, but I didn't have standard on me. The bolts shouldn't be extremely tight, so you shouldn't strip them.