Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Removing and installing bulb for rear interior light -W43- with incandescent bulbs

Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual / Electrical system / Lights, lamps, switches inside, anti- theft system / Lights / Removing and installing bulb for rear interior light -W43- with incandescent bulbs

Special tools and workshop equipment required

Removal wedge -3409-

Note

The lights used for the rear interior light -W43- are the same as the rear left and rear right reading lights -W11-/ -W12-.

Removing

Removing and installing bulb for rear interior light -W43- with incandescent bulbs

–	Lever off lens -3- for rear interior light -W43- using removal wedge -3409-.

–	Pull bulb -1- out of bulb holder -2- in direction of arrow -A-.

Installing

Install in the reverse order of removal, observing the following:

Caution

Risk of damage to the bulb.

Do not touch the glass part of the bulb with bare fingers. Fingers leave traces of grease on the glass bulb, which vaporise when the bulb is switched on and cause the glass bulb to cloud over.

Wear, for example, clean fabric gloves when inserting bulbs.

–	Test functionality.

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