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About to replace interior lights with LEDs, trim removal?

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Going to tackle this tomorrow. Any tips on how to access the front reading bulbs and rear reading bulbs?

 

Also the door lights?

 

Closest I could find online for the front lights was this:

 

https://youtu.be/-PsSVIAcMkA

Front and rear reading lights are easy, insert a thin but firm piece of plastic from the front, so insert towards the windshield, then gently pry them down, they will give and drop out!

The door lights have a small indent where you can also insert a piece of plastic, and as i recall, but might be wrong, they open up from the door facing below, meaning from top to bottom..

 

The mirror lights also have a small indent to pry them out, i think that those indents are facing towards the windows..
The footwell lights also similarly have indents to pry them out!

 

Hope that helped!

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33 minutes ago, bubib5 said:

Front and rear reading lights are easy, insert a thin but firm piece of plastic from the front, so insert towards the windshield, then gently pry them down, they will give and drop out!

The door lights have a small indent where you can also insert a piece of plastic, and as i recall, but might be wrong, they open up from the door facing below, meaning from top to bottom..

 

The mirror lights also have a small indent to pry them out, i think that those indents are facing towards the windows..
The footwell lights also similarly have indents to pry them out!

 

Hope that helped!

Legend! Thank you.

17 minutes ago, Steviedakota said:

Legend! Thank you.

No worries, and as for the footwell lights, if you want to replace those to led, make sure to be gentle with the aluminum casing, dont mangle it, or you wont be able to put it back together!

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Job done.

 

Photos attached. Be super careful when removing the front light surround. The two narrow plastic strips in the centre of the trim could break very easily. In my case I lowered the sunglasses holder which allowed me to to get my fingers on the trim and slowly prize it down, from the back of the car to the front of the car.

 

The rear reading light was very easy to remove, pull down from the rearmost edge, the fronts have two tabbed sliders and it just drops out. Disconnect the connector. Then with a couple of plastic removal tools push in the various tabs on the back side to slowly release the cover. Then to have access to the bulbs.

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On 30/08/2021 at 15:19, Steviedakota said:

Job done.

 

Photos attached. Be super careful when removing the front light surround. The two narrow plastic strips in the centre of the trim could break very easily. In my case I lowered the sunglasses holder which allowed me to to get my fingers on the trim and slowly prize it down, from the back of the car to the front of the car.

 

The rear reading light was very easy to remove, pull down from the rearmost edge, the fronts have two tabbed sliders and it just drops out. Disconnect the connector. Then with a couple of plastic removal tools push in the various tabs on the back side to slowly release the cover. Then to have access to the bulbs.

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IMG_20210830_125550.jpg

 

 

 

thanks!!!

 

exactly what I was looking for, will try later!

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