Turns out the lens DOES pry out, from the center back of the lens (away from the switch) you can put a pry tool/flathead in and push it out
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Dome light fitment different to others?
Hi all
I'm finally putting the inside of my IS back together after a couple of years driving it around a bit naked like a drift car.
I thought since I've replaced most bulbs with LEDs I'd do the dome light too (as a side note, replacing the vanity light in the sun visor with LED is so blinding I don't think anyone could see in the mirror😂)
But everywhere I see people changing the dome light, they have a different fitment to mine, and their lens just pops off easily from 1 exposed end.
Mine looks like this - and I can't see any way to get at it. The lens feels as fixed as the map light one (which is screwed in) but poking around the unit to see if I have to unclip it somehow like the one in the front for the maplight yields nothing except unpleasant "ripping off tape" noise at the front edge.
Anyone have one like mine? How do you get it open? Is it just the lens coming off somehow?
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I'm finally putting the inside of my IS back together after a couple of years driving it around a bit naked like a drift car.
I thought since I've replaced most bulbs with LEDs I'd do the dome light too (as a side note, replacing the vanity light in the sun visor with LED is so blinding I don't think anyone could see in the mirror😂)
But everywhere I see people changing the dome light, they have a different fitment to mine, and their lens just pops off easily from 1 exposed end.
Mine looks like this - and I can't see any way to get at it. The lens feels as fixed as the map light one (which is screwed in) but poking around the unit to see if I have to unclip it somehow like the one in the front for the maplight yields nothing except unpleasant "ripping off tape" noise at the front edge.
Anyone have one like mine? How do you get it open? Is it just the lens coming off somehow?
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This is what it looks like with the lens cover off. You see the very subtle indent on the back middle where you can slide something in, but the clips you see are at each end of the back side that need to pop out
The back edge of the lens
The front edge of the lens that you tuck in before clipping the back edge in
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