Thanks for posting this...I will be replacing both at the same time...as it bothers me when I see cars with a dull lamp and a bright one. So appreciate your video!!! From a lady who takes extreamly good care of her 2009 Milan...who now has 259000 miles on it and runs beautifully
Thank you for taking the time to make this excellent video . It was fun and informative. I have a 2010 Mercury Milan premier so it was perfect information .
Wisdom here. Smart man by buying two, not touching the bulb, checking before putting it all back together and saving yourself at least a buck by not letting the dealer scroo you over. Good videography skills and one beautiful Lab. One question though....Wisconsin or Michigan?
Couldn't get the filter out because it was tied to some hose, but was able to wiggle my tiny lil baby hands past it and replace the bulb that way. Super helpful video, thank you for posting it.
Just changed my passenger side headlight in 2010 Milan. Dont follow the steps in removing the wheel cover. Simply unscrew the plastic overflow container. Two screws. lift it up and you can reach right down and change the bulb. It took my brother 10 minutes.
I did it the same way, not sure how you can reach it from the wheel well but I took off the overflow tube, unscrewed 2 bolts that hold of the container and was a easy change, I would recommend doing the passenger this way. In my car there was no "door" in the wheel well and was a one piece.
Just had my left bulb fail and I found your video instruction. Thank you very much. My tail light went out last year, I sent letters to Mercury and they recalled the car and replaced both tail lights. It pays to be nice. Best Regards Brian
I was thrilled when I got the Ford recall letter for new taillights. I had one burned out and it was going to cost over $400 to replace it. They are some sort of ridiculous LED lamps... I like my Milan, but boy did Mercury screw up on the lights they put in.
Thanks SO much for the video, it was very helpful! Changed the drivers side without needing to pull the air filter out, since it was super wedged in there.
Thank you!! I just changed my drivers side low beam bulb in my 2006 Mercury Milan. I was a little scared to disconnect the air filter but it wasn't as difficult as I imagined it would be. It should not be this difficult to replace a light bulb though...the car companies should think their design through a little better.
Thanks mine just went out! Inside dashboard let me know which was pretty cool: "Check Left side Headlamp" Your video is great on change-out! Much Appreciated!!! Jack T.
thank you sooo much for posting this video!! I wasn't looking forward to driving around with one headlamp on, especially after all the snow we've had over the past 2 weeks but that didn't happen thanks to you! =)
Thank you very much for posting this. I too was thinking I may have to take the front end apart to change the bulbs. My passenger side went out and this should make it very easy to change.
ATTENTION do not remove airbox or remove wheel well fender!!! Drivers side is plainly accessible as is, maybe moving a rubber flap out of the way. Passenger side just remove to bolts to coolant overflow plastic tank and don't completely remove it or the hoses just set it aside a little and you can access the light bulb. Idk why the manufacturer or these people are telling others to do it this ridiculous manner. Props to the other guy in the comments that mentioned this otherwise I would have been duped as well.
I used this advice to change the driver side on a standard 2010 Milan and it worked. It was actually quite a bit easier because I could reach the rubber cover without removing the air filter. But the passenger side was much harder because the wheel well cover is one long piece. And then it's tough to get two hands up to the bulb to unplug it and plug in the replacement. But the advice is correct. This is how it's done.
Thanks so much for the video! Easy to watch and understand. I purchased two bulbs but only replaced the burnt one (driver side) hmmm. The new bulb is brighter but I will wait to replace the other one.
Thank you for posting this. I am not mechanically inclined in any way, shape or form and my driver side headlamp went out of my 2010 Milan. I went to Advance Auto parts and bought the bulb and they usually have someone there who will offer to do this kind of replacement for me; but unfortunately no one was available this time. I watched your video and presto! I was able to change the bulb in just a few minutes. Appreciate the time you took to make this video. Thanks.
dr07828 thanks SO MUCH for this very informative (and mildly humorous) video! I got a used 2010 Milan 4cyl back in July for cheap (37k miles, $10700) and what's the first thing that happened once the warranty expired, but a whole bunch of bulbs start burning out. I won't get into my taillight nightmare but replacing the driver side headlight after watching your video was a TOTAL breeze. Now to cross my fingers and hope the passenger side holds out a while longer because that looks like a PITA. Wish I had more hands to give you more thumbs up, we Mercury owners are a quickly dying breed and we gotta do what we can to keep the last ones running...
The passenger side is a pain in the ass. You have to take the splash cover off the passenger wheel well so you can reach through it to take the bulb out. I miss driving a vehicle that didn't have a computer running it and had enough room to work on it. This is life now.
There should be a access door on the inside of the wheel well. 2006-2009 has that too, 2010-2011 should have a similar acces. also the 10-11 model year has a single low and high bulb where as a 06-09 has a separate low and high beam bulbs. Good Video!
and you would completely wrong. you should do some research before you post a comment like this. I happen to own the car and I assure you there is no access panel. as well in the owners manual it tells you that the way I did it in the video is how to do it. if you recall I hold the manual in front of the cam.
I know i saw, but i worked on a friends 2010 Milan which was like the one you have in the video and it did have an access door in the wheel well. I had a 2008 Milan, it had a wheel well access. That is why I posted the comment because i helped my friend replace the bulb in his 2010 Milan and there was a access hole. so that means, some 2010-2011 Milans did come with the bulb replacement access hole and some did not.
+Mateusz Skrzyniecki you can say that all you want but there is no "door" you must remove the front half of the fender to get to it. they did not make any which differ from mine. in a loose sense yes there is wheel well access however it is half the wheel well.
thank you for the video. They should make Engineers change bulbs and air filters so they know the trials we all go through. LOL I think it was a truck my neither had that required you to take out one transmission bolt before the oil filter would come off.
Great video. Very useful. I get why the manufacturer does this stuff for packaging reasons, but who really wants to do all that to save a few bucks? Sheesh. I miss the old days of simple 3 screws and voila your done.
So this video was so amazing okay because I’m a girl ( obviously) and I know nothing about cars and I just changed my left headlamp low beam !!!!! I’m supper happy thank you so much for this video I saved myself 48 to 50 dollars ! My car is 2008 mercury Milan premier by the way
Dude thanks so much for posting. I've been riding around with one headlight cause two oil change places told me "they have to remove the bumper to get to them"?????
Haha, I was thinking the same thing about removing all that stuff...to replace a bulb. Isn't it crazy when it's hard to get to/remove things that commonly go bad? Sometimes I just wonder what they're thinking when it's difficult to do that for anything like a bulb, filter, or battery. Great video. I didn't know that about the low/high, which is why I sought out a video to confirm since it seemed weird as I was looking for part numbers. Thanks!
Wonder why they changed the access hole in the right fender liner. My 2007 the right headlight is actually easier to change. Remove the oval access cover with a short phillips screwdriver then you can reach in and change either the headlight or the yellow marker/signal light.
Money most likely. It was probably cheaper to get rid of the Bulb. Also dealers shops would make more money from people paying them to change the bulb.
Thanks for the video, doesn't look as bad as the manual makes it sound. How long was it before you realized the old bulb was still on the engine when you closed the hood?
Good video man! Very simple step by step and you show everything in a video. Any thoughts on convert it to HID? i want to do it for my girlfriends milan.
Hey man I have the same car and by the way you don't have to remove all that stuff all I did was literally remove that rubber cap reaching turn the bulb filled it out put the new one in turn it in with the rubber cap on and I was done took about 10 minutes maybe less and I didn't have to remove a single thing besides if that rubber lid
Why don't you go through the access panels in the wheel wells that were put in just for replacing the headlights. Only tool needed is a short Phillips screwdriver. Just a thought..
There is a very very good reason I did not do that. It is because there is none on the driver side. There is only an access panel in the passenger side fender wall. As you can see from the video, I followed Fords instructions on how to change the bulb on the driver side.
Did the dog find a place to shit? My passenger side went out just in time for new years 2014. I remember thinking what pain in the ass. It took about 20 minute once I figured it out. Clicking it in was harder than taking it out. Noticed you needed to do it twice too. Now I got the driver side, but my model is the hybrid. There's a battery there instead of an air filter. Seriously?!?!?! what engineer decided you have to remove the CAR BATTERY to change a headlight?? Now I'll have to reset all of my electronics...WOW!
Well I don't have a premier but the air filter housing looked the same so I went to pull it out and I guess it doesn't really come out I didn't have to take it out and now I'm stuck because I can't get it back on so my car won't run so you should have mentioned in the beginning that your car was a premier and it's not the same as the base model cuz now its 2 a.m. and I'm stuck at work cuz there us no video on how to get the air filter housing back on. Thanks for nothing!!
And now, 9 years later, this video came in handy for me! Thanks a lot!
Thanks for posting this...I will be replacing both at the same time...as it bothers me when I see cars with a dull lamp and a bright one. So appreciate your video!!! From a lady who takes extreamly good care of her 2009 Milan...who now has 259000 miles on it and runs beautifully
I was able to successfully change my bulb tonight because of this video. Thank you for putting it up.
Nate Foy glad it was able to help you!
Thank you for taking the time to make this excellent video . It was fun and informative. I have a 2010 Mercury Milan premier so it was perfect information .
Wisdom here. Smart man by buying two, not touching the bulb, checking before putting it all back together and saving yourself at least a buck by not letting the dealer scroo you over. Good videography skills and one beautiful Lab. One question though....Wisconsin or Michigan?
Thanks. I appreciate that.
Couldn't get the filter out because it was tied to some hose, but was able to wiggle my tiny lil baby hands past it and replace the bulb that way. Super helpful video, thank you for posting it.
Just changed my passenger side headlight in 2010 Milan. Dont follow the steps in removing the wheel cover. Simply unscrew the plastic overflow container. Two screws. lift it up and you can reach right down and change the bulb. It took my brother 10 minutes.
I did it the same way, not sure how you can reach it from the wheel well but I took off the overflow tube, unscrewed 2 bolts that hold of the container and was a easy change, I would recommend doing the passenger this way. In my car there was no "door" in the wheel well and was a one piece.
I just used your video to replace a bulb on my 2008 Milan. It's exactly the same process. Thanks!
I am glad this video was able to help you. Thanks for watching and for your comments.
Just had my left bulb fail and I found your video instruction. Thank you very much. My tail light went out last year, I sent letters to Mercury and they recalled the car and replaced both tail lights. It pays to be nice. Best Regards
Brian
I was thrilled when I got the Ford recall letter for new taillights. I had one burned out and it was going to cost over $400 to replace it. They are some sort of ridiculous LED lamps... I like my Milan, but boy did Mercury screw up on the lights they put in.
Thanks SO much for the video, it was very helpful! Changed the drivers side without needing to pull the air filter out, since it was super wedged in there.
Thank you!! I just changed my drivers side low beam bulb in my 2006 Mercury Milan. I was a little scared to disconnect the air filter but it wasn't as difficult as I imagined it would be. It should not be this difficult to replace a light bulb though...the car companies should think their design through a little better.
Thanks mine just went out! Inside dashboard let me know which was pretty cool: "Check Left side Headlamp" Your video is great on change-out! Much Appreciated!!! Jack T.
Just replaced this bulb on my Dad’s Milan. This vid made it a breeze. Thanks for your help!! Happy New Year!
thank you sooo much for posting this video!! I wasn't looking forward to driving around with one headlamp on, especially after all the snow we've had over the past 2 weeks but that didn't happen thanks to you! =)
Thank you very much for posting this. I too was thinking I may have to take the front end apart to change the bulbs. My passenger side went out and this should make it very easy to change.
ATTENTION do not remove airbox or remove wheel well fender!!! Drivers side is plainly accessible as is, maybe moving a rubber flap out of the way. Passenger side just remove to bolts to coolant overflow plastic tank and don't completely remove it or the hoses just set it aside a little and you can access the light bulb. Idk why the manufacturer or these people are telling others to do it this ridiculous manner. Props to the other guy in the comments that mentioned this otherwise I would have been duped as well.
I used this advice to change the driver side on a standard 2010 Milan and it worked. It was actually quite a bit easier because I could reach the rubber cover without removing the air filter. But the passenger side was much harder because the wheel well cover is one long piece. And then it's tough to get two hands up to the bulb to unplug it and plug in the replacement. But the advice is correct. This is how it's done.
I'm a woman tired of overpaying for things I can go with some help. I just changed my bulb. Thank you🎉🎉😊😊
Thanks so much for the video! Easy to watch and understand. I purchased two bulbs but only replaced the burnt one (driver side) hmmm. The new bulb is brighter but I will wait to replace the other one.
Thank you for posting this. I am not mechanically inclined in any way, shape or form and my driver side headlamp went out of my 2010 Milan. I went to Advance Auto parts and bought the bulb and they usually have someone there who will offer to do this kind of replacement for me; but unfortunately no one was available this time. I watched your video and presto! I was able to change the bulb in just a few minutes. Appreciate the time you took to make this video. Thanks.
I just bought one of these with the drivers side head light out this video helped. Thanks
Thanks for posting. I actually removed the shroud by the battery and could reach the cover remove and replace. Good guidance.
"Well I'll be dipped in shit" hahahaha thanks for the video I'm about to change mine
i wheezed xD good stuff
Thank you so much I appreciate you
Thanks for putting this up! My drivers side just went out.
Thank you SO much for this!!
dr07828 thanks SO MUCH for this very informative (and mildly humorous) video! I got a used 2010 Milan 4cyl back in July for cheap (37k miles, $10700) and what's the first thing that happened once the warranty expired, but a whole bunch of bulbs start burning out. I won't get into my taillight nightmare but replacing the driver side headlight after watching your video was a TOTAL breeze. Now to cross my fingers and hope the passenger side holds out a while longer because that looks like a PITA. Wish I had more hands to give you more thumbs up, we Mercury owners are a quickly dying breed and we gotta do what we can to keep the last ones running...
The passenger side is a pain in the ass. You have to take the splash cover off the passenger wheel well so you can reach through it to take the bulb out. I miss driving a vehicle that didn't have a computer running it and had enough room to work on it. This is life now.
Very helpful video just saved me time & money. Thank you so much for posting!
Dude you rock thanx a bunch total points with this chick I'm helping because of you you rock thanx again
Thank u for the info:). Mine just burnt out on the passenger side and was easy to find your video!.
There should be a access door on the inside of the wheel well. 2006-2009 has that too, 2010-2011 should have a similar acces. also the 10-11 model year has a single low and high bulb where as a 06-09 has a separate low and high beam bulbs. Good Video!
and you would completely wrong. you should do some research before you post a comment like this. I happen to own the car and I assure you there is no access panel. as well in the owners manual it tells you that the way I did it in the video is how to do it. if you recall I hold the manual in front of the cam.
I know i saw, but i worked on a friends 2010 Milan which was like the one you have in the video and it did have an access door in the wheel well. I had a 2008 Milan, it had a wheel well access. That is why I posted the comment because i helped my friend replace the bulb in his 2010 Milan and there was a access hole. so that means, some 2010-2011 Milans did come with the bulb replacement access hole and some did not.
+Mateusz Skrzyniecki you can say that all you want but there is no "door" you must remove the front half of the fender to get to it. they did not make any which differ from mine. in a loose sense yes there is wheel well access however it is half the wheel well.
You are a saint for making this video. Thank you!!
thank you for the video. They should make Engineers change bulbs and air filters so they know the trials we all go through. LOL I think it was a truck my neither had that required you to take out one transmission bolt before the oil filter would come off.
Great video. Very useful. I get why the manufacturer does this stuff for packaging reasons, but who really wants to do all that to save a few bucks? Sheesh. I miss the old days of simple 3 screws and voila your done.
So this video was so amazing okay because I’m a girl ( obviously) and I know nothing about cars and I just changed my left headlamp low beam !!!!! I’m supper happy thank you so much for this video I saved myself 48 to 50 dollars ! My car is 2008 mercury Milan premier by the way
thanks dude u helped us a lot thanks never would of got it done.
Lori Young very happy you found my vid useful
Gracias me ayudo mucho tu video 👍
¡Bienvenido y gracias!
Thanks! Your vid was helpful for my 2011 model!
Thanks. Very informative. I have to wait for the next video as I tis the passenger side that is out.
this is awesome.
I'm going to try this.
our car mechanic always steals
good video....it helped me out a bit with my wife car
thank you! very informative AND entertaining! thanks again
Dude thanks so much for posting. I've been riding around with one headlight cause two oil change places told me "they have to remove the bumper to get to them"?????
Haha, I was thinking the same thing about removing all that stuff...to replace a bulb. Isn't it crazy when it's hard to get to/remove things that commonly go bad? Sometimes I just wonder what they're thinking when it's difficult to do that for anything like a bulb, filter, or battery. Great video. I didn't know that about the low/high, which is why I sought out a video to confirm since it seemed weird as I was looking for part numbers. Thanks!
Thanks for this, it helped me change both of the lamps. The passenger side is a bear though...
Thanks now i can change mine ...i need to see video to change alternator 2011 milan
Thank you!!!
Wonder why they changed the access hole in the right fender liner. My 2007 the right headlight is actually easier to change. Remove the oval access cover with a short phillips screwdriver then you can reach in and change either the headlight or the yellow marker/signal light.
Money most likely. It was probably cheaper to get rid of the Bulb. Also dealers shops would make more money from people paying them to change the bulb.
awesome job make it look so easy.
Thanks for the video, doesn't look as bad as the manual makes it sound. How long was it before you realized the old bulb was still on the engine when you closed the hood?
+Keith Lawless I knew it was there when I closed it. I edited out when I opened it back up and took out the bulb.
I think I broke that air intake thing . It’s not sealed up all the way.. any comments on what I should do
Lots of help.Thank you
Dude youre a natural!
Good video man! Very simple step by step and you show everything in a video. Any thoughts on convert it to HID? i want to do it for my girlfriends milan.
Thanks so much for posting!
thank you for this video, hoping we can replace it my son and I
Hahaha I love this video my light just went out thank you
Thanks this was very helpful.
this guy is awesome
Great information HUURRAA!!!
Any chance you replaced the passenger side yet?
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!
Thanks. Thought I'd have to take off the front end.
Thank you ,your a gentelman
Hey man I have the same car and by the way you don't have to remove all that stuff all I did was literally remove that rubber cap reaching turn the bulb filled it out put the new one in turn it in with the rubber cap on and I was done took about 10 minutes maybe less and I didn't have to remove a single thing besides if that rubber lid
Why not just unbolt the headlight itself and unplug then plug in??
Why don't you go through the access panels in the wheel wells that were put in just for replacing the headlights.
Only tool needed is a short Phillips screwdriver.
Just a thought..
There is a very very good reason I did not do that. It is because there is none on the driver side. There is only an access panel in the passenger side fender wall. As you can see from the video, I followed Fords instructions on how to change the bulb on the driver side.
dr07828 there is in both wheel wells on a 08
+John Traill that's what year I drive, so I can do change it from the wheel well on both sides? Also what bulb number do I need? Thanks in advance.
Made replacement a snap
Thank you, huge help! Very well done!
helped me so much lol
thank you
Helpful👍🏽
yeah they would charge you for removing the bumper then change it the way I did.
Did the dog find a place to shit?
My passenger side went out just in time for new years 2014. I remember thinking what pain in the ass. It took about 20 minute once I figured it out. Clicking it in was harder than taking it out. Noticed you needed to do it twice too. Now I got the driver side, but my model is the hybrid. There's a battery there instead of an air filter. Seriously?!?!?! what engineer decided you have to remove the CAR BATTERY to change a headlight?? Now I'll have to reset all of my electronics...WOW!
There is only 1access panel on a 2010 and its on the passenger side.
dr07828 I have a 2010 Premier and there is no access panel on passenger side :(
I'll be dipped in shit lmao great vid
Where are you located?
On Earth.
Me too!@@dr07828
Well I don't have a premier but the air filter housing looked the same so I went to pull it out and I guess it doesn't really come out I didn't have to take it out and now I'm stuck because I can't get it back on so my car won't run so you should have mentioned in the beginning that your car was a premier and it's not the same as the base model cuz now its 2 a.m. and I'm stuck at work cuz there us no video on how to get the air filter housing back on. Thanks for nothing!!
I am guessing they doing pay the engineers enough to allow easy replacement of a LIGHT BULB!
Uh. It’s too cool
What idiot engineer though that was a good idea.