{"id":15655,"date":"2025-12-30T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15655"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:44:32","slug":"replacing-your-subaru-mid-2010s-crosstrek-headlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15655","title":{"rendered":"Replacing your Subaru mid 2010&#8217;s Crosstrek Headlights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once your car gets about 10 years old, one of the most annoying things is that headlights dim and yellow. This is due to a number of reasons &#8211; but primarily due to the degradation of the UV coating. You can buff it off, but it often quickly returns and you&#8217;re stuck with an annoying chore almost every year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another option is to buy replacement headlights. In the old days, you simply unscrewed the old bulbs and put in the new ones. Now you need to remove the assemblies &#8211; which often involves removing the bumper and surrounding shrouds &#8211; as is the case with mid 2010 Subarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Crosstrek\/Impreza&#8217;s in the 2015 era were actually not that bad to replace. TRQ does a great job showing you how to do the job yourself &#8211; including how to re-aim the headlights. It&#8217;s a great video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/728Iw_pbRcg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once your car gets about 10 years old, one of the most annoying things is that headlights dim and yellow. This is due to a number of reasons &#8211; but primarily due to the degradation of the UV coating. You can buff it off, but it often quickly returns and you&#8217;re stuck with an annoying chore almost every year. Another option is to buy replacement headlights. In the old days, you simply unscrewed the old bulbs and put in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15655\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-cool","category-technicalproblemsolutions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-44v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15656,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions\/15656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}