How to replace passenger side standard low beam bulb

Yep. It sure is. I have plenty of experience replacing them. And they are easy.

 

If this is the case then why is it that only the passenger side has gone out twice? Every 6-9 months I have had to replace it. I do not leave the headlights on in the day time and do not do a lot of night time driving.
I used to use Silverstar brand, but went back to the less expensive ones.

 

The passenger side one also always burns out for me, not sure why.

The low beam bulb isn't too difficult to replace, but the passenger side marker bulb is a REAL PITA.


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My amber passenger side marker bulb is permanently burnt out. It will not be replaced.

 

Use a 10mm socket or wrench and remove the two bolts holding the reservoir. You can leave the hose connected when swinging the reservoir out of place. This approach provides easy access to the passenger side low beam light bulb. I replaced the OEM bulbs with Silver Star Ultra's last October. The bulbs are still going strong and make a substantial difference when driving on dark roads. Of note are the increased side visibility and slightly whiter light. There is a YouTube video that shows the process that someone posted to install a "Prius HID Xenon low beam package." Goggle the words in quotation marks for a step by step process to access the bulbs.

Changing both bulbs takes less than 10 minutes. Just be sure to not touch the bulbs with your bare hands.

 

Here's the link to the video that illustrates how to access the bulbs.

 

I bet u do

 

It could be due to oil / dirt on the bulb. Any containment on the bulb will create a hotspot & in time the bulb will burn hotter in that spot causing the bulb to have a shorter life span.

 

I love the fact that i don't have side marker lights......just a nice white LED bar & white reflector

 

I've replaced one roadside without moving the coolant reservoir. It was tight, but possible. Carry a 10mm wrench to move the reservoir.

My real issue is that some family members are accustomed to DRLs and keep Prius headlights on all the time. Then they fail and you don't know it until you're miles from home and you turn on your headlamps in the dark. Lamp failure indicator does not include headlamps. Duh?

 

Thank you, Hooiser1, for that video, and thank you to the rest of the respondents in this thread for all the information that encouraged me to just replace the low beam headlights myself. I have big hands, so I chose to unbolt the 2 10mm bolts securing the coolant reservoir and shift it on top of the engine to get the space to work on the passengers ‘ side. I replaced the OEM halogens on our 2012 hatchback with Sealight S1 LEDs, hoping to gain some illumination when using low beams. The bulb replacement was under 15 minutes and was facilitated by the fact that the Sealight bulbs have a very small ballast with an extra 6” of cable on them. Securing the ballasts so that they would not flop around, however, took another 10-15 minutes. The 6000k bluish-white color of the low beams now matches the LED parking lights I installed a couple years back.
Cheers!