WRX changing parking light...

I like one or the first repliers put some pretty sweet superwhite parking lights in the headlights and they both blew pretty quickly, so I just bought the standard amber parking lights from the local auto parts store (I totally cleared my headlights and I can't stand the stock clear parking bulbs).

Here's what you need to do, and it doesn't take very long once you get the hang. I think it took me maybe 10 minutes max to change out both my parking lights.

1. Remove the front grill. There are four tabs on top that are easily pulled out by releasing them with your fingers. There are two on the bottom corners of the grill which either need a long skinny screwdriver and a long allen wrench (I chose the latter).
2. Use a flathead screwdriver to pop the black tabs holding the top of the front bumper onto the car. You want to remove the black screw looking things that are on the black tabs and then the black tabs come off easily. It seems hard looking at it but all you do is pop the black screw inside the tab, pull the black screw out, and the pull the black tab out. I think there are 9 all together, and you want to pull out 8 of them (4 on the right side, 4 on the left side). The reason you pull these out are so that the front bumper can flex some when you have to pry loose the headlight assembly.
3. Use a 10mm socket to remove the top 2 bolts on the headlight and then the 1 bolt on the front bracket of the headlight (you have to get to it from where the grill was).
4. Pull out the headlight (you don't have to pull it out all the way, just far enough to be able to unscrew the parking light from the headlight), remove the old parking bulb, and replace with the new one. Then just put everything back in the same order you took them out.
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