Interior lights mk4 Bora/Golf

[Yevvy]

I've searched the forum and couldn't find any info on how to change the interior lights. maybe noone has done it yet? well anyway i tried pushing them to the side and twisting a screwdriver underneath them - all i got was a crack in the plastic

anyone got any ideas of how to get them out of there?

btw i'm talking about the festoons located behind the sunvisor and above rear doors illustrated below:

[MIS.18T]

you push it to one side and with a thin flat blade screw driver you push it in and it will come down.

hope it helps try either way if it does not come out easy.

[Yevvy]

yeah tried that and it led to a cracked casing. big thanks anyway (at least now i know i'm heading in the right direction ) will try with a thinner screwdriver tomorrow.

[MIS.18T]

yeah took me a bit to work it out with dub20v.s mk4 gti.

[dylan8]

was also trying to work this out the other day.
you upgrading ur bulbs? LEDs? if so what colour etc, was thinking of going to town and doing all pure white led globes inside and out on my car, hate that yellow colour from the stock globes

[Yevvy]

yeah finally got them out today, lost one of the metal mounting pieces/contacts which hold the light in place i'm upgraading to LEDs, will try red ones first, if not then will go with blue. will post pics when i'm done.

anyone know where i can get a spare contact?

[dylan8]

Have no idea to find one of the contacts.

Did you end up finding one? have you got the new lights in yet?

[Yevvy]

unfortunately no and no. driving like a hobo with just wires sticking out of the headlining. auto1 is taking time with the red leds, they wanted to push blue ones but they were the wong size. and now i need to go to a wrecker, to get the whole housing

on a brighter note, got all the stuff i need to tint

btw, haven't seen any pics of your car yet! post some in the photo section

[dylan8]

that sucks, atleast you can get them, think iv gone to every place in town to suss out who can order them for me, they jsut look at me stupid, havnt even heard of them before haha i dont know why i even try anymore...

you going to do your own tinting on your car? if you are, definatly go darker then the 'legal' on your back windows. i have midnight express (darkest legal tint apparntly) but something to do with the angle of the back window, it still lets so much light in, looks sweet at night, but during the day its like you barely have tinting. Thinking of going back and getting the rear door windows and rear window done darker which is apparntly legal?

Iv been going to make a picture thread for a while, but been putting it off (been lazy) but im making 1 now, ill shoot you a link when im done.

[Treza360]

The lights behind the visors are easy to pop out. As said you just need a really thin flat blade screw driver and get the correct side of the light to push in and pop it out.

The rear lights over the door are much harder to get out as you've discovered. Same way to get them out though. If you don't get the right side to push in and pop out then you will never get them out. However I when I finally got mine out I found that they're some kind of weird round bulb that I still haven't seen an LED that will fit around the place.

I would've thought they'd be the 39mm fuse style bulbs like the map lights but for some reason mine aren't. I think due to the fact that the security motion sensors are in mine they use a different bulb.

Cheers,
Trent