safe headlight bulb replacement 06'

...hey you know HID are the special expensive headlights, and also there were some problems with them. My 2006 does not have the HID lights so I just use the cheapos. The cheaper the better for bulb life, but dimmer. One flaw in the Prius is hard to replace those bulbs so only once so far for me.

You need to know if you have HID fixtures.

 

you can have HIDs without nav but I don't think you can have a nav with halogen headlamps. basically, if a gen II prius has nav than it has every option available that year (with the exception of leather).

so normally I would tell you that you bought the wrong bulbs because no fog lamps means halogen headlights and you bought the HID bulbs. So either you are mistaken about whether your car has fog lamps or navigation, or you have a "base" car that someone added a navigation unit to, or you have a "loaded" car that someone removed the fog lamps to.

here's a simple solution. go to the car and look at the left turn signal stalk, on the tip is the big headlight switch with 3 settings, beside the headlight switch is there a smaller "ring" with 2 settings (on & off) with a picture of a light with several squiggly lines coming out of it? If yes than you definitely bought the correct bulbs. If no than you probably bought the wrong bulbs.

or here's another way, when you drive at night you've probably noticed that some of the gen II prius have yellowish white lights and some have brighter bluish white lights. If your car has the bluish white lights than again you bought the right bulbs, otherwise you did not.

it seems like most of the philips d4r's on amazon.com are fakes, so the Maxlux is a wise decision if you are refusing to pay dealer prices. Regardless of whether you wear gloves or not to remove the old headlight bulbs, put on fresh latex gloves when handling any headlight bulbs, never allow any dirt or oils from your hands to get on the bulbs.