Removing and installing front interior light and reading light (vehicles with no sliding/tilting sunroof) — VW
Removing and installing front interior light and reading light (vehicles with no sliding/tilting sunroof) on VW: 14 steps.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Touran I (1T, 2003–2015)
- Special tools named: 3409
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ When removing and installing components that are in view (switches, covers, trim and so on), mask off areas in which tools (removal wedgeVAS 3409, screwdriver) are used to lever out those components using commercially available tape. — Switch off ignition and all electrical consumers.
- Carefully lever lens for interior/reading light out of mounting frame using wedgeVAS 3409 or suitable screwdriver.
- Remove securing screws (1) and release locking lugs (2).
- Disconnect connector (arrow).
- Switch off ignition and all electrical consumers.
- Carefully lever lens for interior/reading light out of mounting frame using wedgeVAS 3409 or suitable screwdriver.
- Press contact plate (1) of light in direction of arrow and remove festoon bulb (2) from holder.
- Renew festoon bulb (12 V, 10 W).
- Carefully clip lens for interior/reading light into mounting frame.
- Switch off ignition and all electrical consumers.
- Carefully lever lens for interior/reading light out of mounting frame using wedgeVAS 3409 or suitable screwdriver.
- Carefully pull glass base bulb to be replaced (arrows) out of holder.
- Renew glass-base bulb (12 V, 5 W).
- Carefully clip lens for interior/reading light into mounting frame.
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
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