Hello again, auto repair lovers and seekers of automobile truth! I wouldn’t go so far as to say that this video will give you free auto repair tips in any large sense. It is actually just an excerpt from a larger video, but the one piece of advice that it does illustrate, how to replace car headlight, is actually quite helpful if you’ve never tried to do this task before.

Car parts can be hard to find under the hood, or at least they are for me since I am still pretty much of an auto repair beginner. Unless you know what you’re looking for, the whole thing can be quite daunting but Danny shows us the area where the headlight resides and what the little devils look like. He also demonstrates that a quarter turn clockwise does the trick for removing an old bulb, hopefully eliminating a lot of counter-productive twisting and turning that could damage it or the headlight housing.

If you are trying to cultivate a do it yourself car repair mentality like I am, every little task you can master really helps. My advice is to focus on how Danny gets the little headlight removed quickly and easily because this video doesn’t get to how to replace taillights. Nor, do you ever get to find out why you needed to lay out those car part repair tools – a Phillips head screw driver, a standards head screwdriver and a hand towel.

As for the towel, I didn’t even break a fingernail doing this, let alone get grimy. I’ve got to search around for the second part of this lesson so see why you need those tools, but in the meantime, my quest to maintain the auto parts that are under my car’s hood all by myself has moved another step ahead!

– Susie