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need to remove headlight

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Anyone have any documentation on removing the headlight?? yes removing the whole headlight, not the bulbs? I got the stock windshield off and everything else. But looks like i have to remove the front panels where the glove box is. seems like a huge pain.
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Re: need to remove headlight

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yep, the front side panels are attached to the headlight and just about everything else up front :|

it would be a lot easier to give your pcx the same headlight treatment as that passport you did :lol: ;)
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high five to that. uncle honda really made this thing difficult to work on at times.
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dem0nk1d wrote:high five to that. uncle honda really made this thing difficult to work on at times.

It's a wonder they can tie their own shoelaces tbh

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Good luck with this one! :P

So to remove the headlight, you have to remove the front left and front right fairings. They are attached BEHIND the left and right fairings on the middle of the bike, around the seat... So...
- Remove seat
- Remove fuel flap cover / fuel flap
- Remove rear cover
- Remove rear "wing" that supports the rear cover
- Remove the taillight / back left / back right fairings (it all comes off as one unit)
- Remove the windshield
- Remove the instrument cover panel below the windshield (you gently pry it off from the left and the right)
- FINALLY Remove the left and right front panels.
- Remove the inner middle panel with glovebox (this one's a bitch, involves prying off the middle piece that's paintmatched, then unscrewing the back part)

I don't remember if the front left and front right panels require the lower paintmatched fairings to be removed or not... I know the black plastic parts can stay, but I'm thinking there's a screw hidden under those too, so I may have left out a step.

I'd make a how-to, but it'd take all day and be entitled "how to completely disassemble a PCX." :lol:
Currently ride: 2011 Honda PCX 125 - Upgraded windshield and seat, keeping this one mostly stock
Previously rides: 2005 V-Strom DL650, 1974 Vespa Ciao, 2011 Honda PCX 170 (tons of mods - takegawa 170cc big bore kit, gears, etc), 1996 Honda Nighthawk 250, 1987 Honda Spree, 2000 KTM 125SX, 2003 Honda Silverwing, 2007 Genuine Buddy 125, 1998 Honda PC800, 2008 Buddy 125 (white), 2008 Buddy 125 (red), 2001 Honda Reflex, 1987 Honda Elite, 1988 Honda Spree, 2007 Yamaha Vino, 2007 Honda Metro, 2x 125cc pure-chinesium dirt bikes
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Post by Mel46 »

Too bad we didn't have the camera rolling when you showed us how to take ours apart. Remember, we had to replace the right front panel while we were tuning the bike. What a bear!
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Re: need to remove headlight

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Yeah, that would have been helpful. I might be putting a big bore kit in my PCX soon, if I do that, there will definitely be a how to completely disassemble a PCX thread coming up. :lol:
Currently ride: 2011 Honda PCX 125 - Upgraded windshield and seat, keeping this one mostly stock
Previously rides: 2005 V-Strom DL650, 1974 Vespa Ciao, 2011 Honda PCX 170 (tons of mods - takegawa 170cc big bore kit, gears, etc), 1996 Honda Nighthawk 250, 1987 Honda Spree, 2000 KTM 125SX, 2003 Honda Silverwing, 2007 Genuine Buddy 125, 1998 Honda PC800, 2008 Buddy 125 (white), 2008 Buddy 125 (red), 2001 Honda Reflex, 1987 Honda Elite, 1988 Honda Spree, 2007 Yamaha Vino, 2007 Honda Metro, 2x 125cc pure-chinesium dirt bikes
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