Interior lights

[tone70]

Hi everyone this is a sad question but i need help to change a rear courtesy light bulb! How do you get at it without scratching or snapping the housing?
Thanks

[snapdragon]

Get a thin knife, slide it between clear plastic and housing on a long edge and lever the clear plastic out. The clear plastic is held in by 2 small barbs on each long edge.

[tone70]

Sounds easy!, cheers.

[tone70]

ok how do i get the bulb out? This should'nt be this tricky!

[snapdragon]

IIRC, the bulb is permanently mounted in a black plastic holder, and it pulls out. I may be wrong, it was so long ago. I couldn't get a new bulb from Halfords, so soldered an LED in.

[tone70]

Well a day later and still the bulb won't come out! Three of the chaps at work have had a go, i can't believe i've got to ask VAG to do it? Please someone must know how to get the damn thing out i'm that close to just putting up with it not working!
PS HELP!

[bobmac892]

tone70

I take it you are refering to the courtesy light above the door and not the boot light if you are read on.

I found this out the hard way after pulling the whole courtesy light and mount out of the roof one day and this would appear to work for Golf IV's aswell. Slide a thin knife blade in between the light unit and the roof at the front of the light unit eg from the B piller end. You should feel a spring in the centre. Press this backwards and twist the knife blade. The whole unit should pop out of the roof leaving an alloy rectangular mounting bracket in the hole. You can now disconnect the unit unclipping the cables at the rear.

On one side of the unit you should see a black plastic circle with a slot it it. This is the end of the bulb and you remove it by turning it with a smallish flat blade screw driver. I've found in the past that wiggling the bulb sometimes gets them working again. Not sure if it's dirt, corrosion or misalignment but it sometimes works. Replacements should be obtained at a good parts store.