Interior Light

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Interior Light

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well im f*cked now, my interior light wont go out

ive damaged the passangers side door switch, access to the back of it is a nono

what do i do ?

seems access to the back of it is a total NO so i tried to screwdriver it out ,, but now the whole switch it f*cked and the interior light wont go out wen doors are closed
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I thought they were screwed in with torx bolt ? theyb are on my 306 but it still doesnt work , wire must be bolloxed but cant you turn it off inside ???
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ye turned them off manually , guess they will have to stay that way cos theres no way on earth that switch is coming out that little hole

pissed off i am
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Looks like they're just pushed in. Pull the bulb? Or does it interfere with the central locking?
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no they are just pushed in but with a plastic housing

the way to remove it is unclip the retaining clips and pull out (according to my haynes)

but it didnt quite work like that

i will go scrap yard in the morning, get a new switch and housing

than its a case of getting the wire from inside, it shud be fixable

then im ripping the stupid alarm out that im trying to fit, causing more problems than its worth
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you can see the dull white section ? that seems to be the housing for the black pin switch
and the white bit at the bottom is the bit that connects to the car wire loom
so all i need is 1 of these, shud be an easy fix once i manage to get the wire out the tiny hole it sits in
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in the hard frost i noticed that the switch for the drivers door didnt really register itself as open, so i didnt get the normal welcoming light of the puddle lights.
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worth changing it then,

just dont do what i did and force the bugger out,
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but ive seen them in a d8 they are mounted to where the door bolts into place, in a d9 i think they must be part of the door latch because they are quite invisible, that quirk just happened once whatever way the frost froze it.
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ahh ye,

well been to scrap yard today, got a switch, finally sused the right way to get them out,

job done, :P
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great.
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