I need to replace the headlight assemblies on my 96 Honda Accord. You have to take off the bumper to replace the headlights which is a PIA.

I have everything off bumper but there are 2 body screws UNDER the headlights. I'm unsure how to access these without removing the headlights but you can't get the headlights off without removing the bumper. Bit of a catch-22. How do you access these body screws?

I noticed some people on online said to take off the Whole Bumper and Not just the Bumper Cover. How do I do this? What's the trick I am missing? If you could provide pictures that would be much appreicated.

 

If you are talking about the screws in the picture, then you have to remove the turn signal assemblies.

 

I removed the side marker lights, but you are talking about the front lights from the picutre. This will enable me to access the screws under the headlights?

 

That's the rumor...

 

I don't know if that works. These are screw clips that need to be accessed from the top it looks like.

 

Here's the exploded view of the bumper...it's all I got.

 

If you're talking about the plastic screws, most of the time you can just pull the bumper or panel and they will pop out...break a couple, no big deal, Honda has a 55 gallon drum full of them.

 

Here is a video on how to do this.

 

Hot damn! a video

 

The video doesn't show how to get the screws UNDER the headlights off and only shows 5. I watched that one.

Could I just get a knife under there and cut them?