HID Bulb Retainer Spring Clip Replacement?

If you can't find a replacement, check out ebay or craigslist for anyone selling parts from a wrecked car. Maybe you can get lucky and find one close that they'll let you have a clip off a broken light.

 

Try searching for the Lexus option (or variation of such) :

"2006 2007 2008 2009 LEXUS IS250 IS350 XENON HEADLIGHT BULB RETAINER CLIP CP55"

 

I accidentally knocked the driver side clip off. Does anyone know how to put it back on please? The mechanic wants to charge me over two hundred to fix it.

 

If you have a smart phone with the selfie camera/facetime camera, Use your phone to look at it. Or use your phone to take a photo. Actually, I think I have an HID assembly in the garage. I'll find it and post a photo for you.

 

There ya go. Driver side HID style headlight from a 2007. It even had a Philips 42506 in it...just keep in mind these photos were taken on an assembly that was removed from the car. The pivot point is actually at the bottom when the headlamp assembly is installed on the car and would look like this if you were able to look inside...

 

Wow, that was actually helpful. A few weeks later I had to replace the ballast. So I had to remove the entire headlight assembly anyway. But this made it easier to get it back on, Thank You.

 

TMR-JWAP Just wanted to let you know that the picture you posted of the headlight retaining spring really helped me out. I bent mine when I replaced bulbs years ago while the assemblies were still in the car. Got them to work eventually. This past week I removed the bumper cover and headlight assemblies in order to restore and clear coat them and replace broken fog lights.. During reassembly I tried to bend the clips to make it work properly but 'the harder I tried the worser it got'. Printed your photo and used it as a pattern to reshape mine. Not pretty but working well.

Thanks for taking the time to post.

 

Hiya, thank you for your posts! Hey, my springs are “sprung” and won’t hold my bulbs in properly, so I light up the overpasses! Anyway, I have had no luck finding the correct ones and don’t want to get the eBay universal ones only to spend hours attempting to bend them just so...when all that does is make them worse. Any help locating the proper ones would be super awesome. I have now attempted to fix the bulb/springs 4 times...so getting burned out on the whole process. Thank you.