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Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Removing and installing bulb for front interior light -W1- with incandescent bulbs

Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual / Electrical system / Lights, lamps, switches inside, anti- theft system / Lights / Removing and installing bulb for front interior light -W1- with incandescent bulbs

Special tools and workshop equipment required
   
Removal wedge -3409-
  Note
The light used for the front interior light -WX1- and the light front passenger reading light -W13- is the same component.
Removing
  Caution
Danger of damage to component surfaces.
When using leverage tools, mask visible areas of the component with commercially available adhesive tape.
 

Removing and installing bulb for front interior light -W1- with incandescent bulbs

–  Lever off lens of front interior light -W1- at points marked with -arrows- using removal wedge -3409-.
 

Removing and installing bulb for front interior light -W1- with incandescent bulbs

–  Pull bulb -1- out of bulb holder 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.
 

Removing and installing bulb for front interior light -W1- with incandescent bulbs

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Special tools and workshop equipment required     Removal wedge -3409-   Note ...

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