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92-95 headlamps the same?

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Old 04-07-2003, 04:21 PM
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Subject pretty much explains it....im looking to buy some used ones and need to know if the lamps from the 95 will fit my 92. thanks....
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Subject pretty much explains it....im looking to buy some used ones and need to know if the lamps from the 95 will fit my 92. thanks....
Yes; also the same units can be found on the second-generation Pontiac Trans Sport and Chevy Lumina minivans through about 1997 (i.e. not the original paint-scraper nose but the rounded-off version that came later. Note that the Olds Silhouette minivans kept their original nose and never used the Bonneville headlamps.)

The side marker lamps are unique to Bonnevilles; the minivan ones look similar but are not the same.

(I have a matched set of a white Bonneville SSEi and white Trans Sport, and yes, it did look cool when we drove our little convoy out of the Pontiac dealer that day... )
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Default Re: 92-95 headlamps the same?

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Subject pretty much explains it....im looking to buy some used ones and need to know if the lamps from the 95 will fit my 92. thanks....
The only difference is that the 92'* had the word "PONTIAC" on the driver'* side head lamp while the other years did not!
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only time all that stuff changes is when they redeisign the car 92-95 same only with the newer ones come a change 96-99 will not fit unless u rig it up somehow I know the sidemarkers will NOT fit, the head lamps I don't know,




It'* Mista I want the all orange side marker like the newer ones!
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Originally Posted by mista_sse
It'* Mista I want the all orange side marker like the newer ones!
Speaking of the side markers, on my '93 it sure looks like the clear upper half with the chrome innards was originally intended to be an optional cornering lamp, like the previous Bonneville series had.

Would love to see if I could shoehorn an 1156 bulb in there sometime. Maybe I'll get another pair of side markers from a junkyard sometime and try a little creative surgery on them...
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