1999 Chevrolet S10 Pickup without Integrated Fog Light Driver Side Parking Light DIY Solutions LHT09911

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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20-plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly: that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.

In this video, we'll be replacing the parking lights on a 2001 Chevy S10 pickup, basically the same as most '98 to '04 S10s. This one does not have fog lights, the parking lights are different for ones that have fog lights and do not have fog lights. It's pretty easy. No tools are necessary.

We start by removing the headlights, which is pretty simple. There are two tabs that pull up, that lock the headlight into place and then you rotate the light forward and pull it out and then just use thumb and unlock the headlight harnesses. Then the side marker light bulb twists out and your headlight is free. Now we're going to remove the parking light and it's locked in by a double tab here. You use your other hand to press out on the light a little bit while you pushing on the tabs with a screwdriver and it will come unlocked pretty quick. Then there is a third tab that holds it in, on this one it kind of came right out but on the side and I'll show it to you later, there's another tab that locks it in. Then, once the parking light is out, it's a twist tab, it's a thumb tab and then twist and your parking light is out.

Here with the light out you can see the mounting tabs better. There's two alignment tabs there and there's the big square clip. This is the one that can be a problem when you're removing the parking light and it's actually easy enough to reach in from the side and hit that with your finger and pull it and have it unlock. I'll just continue to show you where those tabs go.

Insert the bulb and twist. It can be a little bit of a pain and then twist and put it in. Then push it back into place. Change the angle, here, so you can see from the top. Make sure that goes in correctly. Then push the other side. Then I also grab the inside of the grill just to make sure everything's in.

Now there are tabs in the headlights that go down in those slots, I'm going to spray them with a little oil just to make things easier. Those are the tabs, they go into the slots when you're putting the headlight in. Now we're going to get ready, we're going to plug in the harness here and what I'm going to show you next after we plug in the harness is you want to make sure that harness doesn't get pinched in. There's actually on those tabs that I showed you, there's a little ledge built on and you wrap the harness up and around that ledge. I'll show you here. I'm grabbing the harness and I'm bringing it up on top of the tabs that are on the tabs, if you have one of these lights in your hand you'll see what I mean. Then you put the light in and it's kind of a little ballet of pushing the bottom down, making sure those tabs go into those slots and then getting the upper tabs back into the radiator support.

You can actually look down into the holes and see everything pretty clearly. You can get it. Then once you got that, you put the locking tabs back in, which unfortunately I didn't get a great shot of here, but lock the tabs back in and you are all set. That's it. A grille replacement takes probably about 30, 35 minutes and if you do your headlights and parking lights at the same time you can really freshen up the front end of you S10.

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