Removing and installing output module for headlight J667/J668 — AUDI
Removing and installing output module for headlight J667/J668 on Audi: 15 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A8 D3 (4E, 2002–2010)
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- Do not flash the headlights.
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ High voltage! Danger to life!Ensure that any part of the gas discharge headlights marked with yellow high-voltage warning symbols are de-energised when you are working on them.Switch off ignition and all electrical equipment and remove ignition key.Do not flash the headlights. — Turn light switch to position "“0”".
- Switch off ignition and all electrical equipment and remove ignition key.
- Do not flash the headlights.
- Loosen locking bolt (1) a few turns.
- Remove appropriate front wheel.
- Remove relevant front wheel housing liner 66.
- Release retaining tabs (arrows) and detach housing cover for dipped beam headlights from headlight housing.
- Unplug electrical connector.
- Unscrew bolts (arrows) and detach output module for headlight from housing cover.
- Release retaining tabs (arrows A) and press connector (1) out of housing cover (2)(arrow B).
- Detach housing cover.
- Check seal between output module for headlight and housing cover.
- Re-attach connector.
- Close housing cover and secure with locking bolt.
- Install front wheel housing liner 66.
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