Instrument lighting
This section deals with the lighting of indicator devices. A description of the indicator lamps, also located in the combined instrument panel, can be found in chapter Tools and devices. Removing instrument lighting:
1. Remove the steering wheel (chapter Wheel suspension and steering).
2. Remove the combined instrument panel (chapter Tools and devices).
3. Depending on the model, up to nine lamp sockets for instrument lighting are visible behind the combined instrument panel.
4. To replace, turn them to the left and remove.
5. Light bulbs with a glass base of 1.1 W form one structural element with a cartridge.
6. Reinsert the bulb holder into the combined instrument panel and turn it to the right as far as it will go.
7. In vehicles with an on-board computer, five 1.1 W glass-base bulbs are used to illuminate the display.
8. Some instrument lamps - depending on the manufacturer - are equipped with orange protective caps. Caps can be installed on new incandescent lamps.
The side luggage compartment lighting is identical to the upper luggage compartment lighting. The arrow shows the mounting hole for the lamp housing (1); figure «2» marked incandescent lamp.
A small bulb is used to illuminate the heating controller (1). Through one light guide (2; here taken out of the clamps) illumination is distributed across all three dial scales.
Four small bulbs are used to illuminate the manual control unit for the climate control system. Socket and light bulb form one structural element that can be replaced with a screwdriver (turn a quarter turn to the left).
Glove box lantern: carefully pry out the housing with a screwdriver (2) bulbs from the mounting hole. After that, a soffit incandescent lamp becomes available (1).
Removing the ashtray/cigarette lighter housing: open the ashtray (2), screwdriver (1) remove the springs from the grooves in both recesses (arrows) and pull the body back.
Here is the ashtray / cigarette lighter light bulb (2) removed from cigarette lighter (1) with the ashtray body dismantled and turned upside down.
Heating lever lighting
1. Remove the radio (chapter Tools and devices).
2. Loosen the four screws in the radio mounting hole.
3. Remove the decorative panel of the center console (switches remain in place).
4. Pull back all three heating/ventilation knobs.
5. Unscrew the two Phillips screws under them, remove the decorative panel.
6. Remove the light guide from the clamps.
7. Now you can see the light bulbs inserted here with glass bases of 1.2 W each.
8. Light bulbs can be removed one at a time from the socket.
Illumination of the manual control unit for the climate control system
1. Remove the radio receiver from the clamps (chapter Tools and devices).
2. Loosen the four screws in the radio mounting hole.
3. Remove the decorative panel of the center console (switches remain in place).
4. Unscrew the four fixing screws of the air conditioner manual control unit and remove the unit.
5. On the reverse side, turn the lamp sockets to the left and remove them.
6. Light bulbs with glass bases of 2 W form one structural element with a cartridge.
7. Both middle bulbs have a black border, both outer bulbs do not.
Ashtray/cigarette lighter front lighting
1. Open the ashtray (2) in the middle console.
2. Insert a screwdriver into one of the two recesses behind the ashtray and press down on the base of the ashtray housing the mounting spring.
3. This is easier to do if you shine a hand torch into the recess.
4. Repeat the same process with the second spring.
5. Pull back the ashtray together with the housing.
6. Lift up the small mounting pad, remove the lamp socket on the cigarette lighter.
7. Replace lamp.
Glove box light
The glove box light is energized when the parking or position lights are on. It is switched on and off by a contact switch in the hinge.
1. Open the glove box.
2. Insert a screwdriver into the recess on the side of the lamp housing and carefully pry the lamp out.
3. After replacing the bulb (spotlight bulb 5 W, length 36 mm) insert the lamp body again, first with the side where the wire is.
Gear indicator
A lamp with a glass base is used to illuminate the gear indicator on the selector lever of an automatic transmission (1.2 W DIN W-shape).
1. Remove the center console (chapter Salon).
2. Remove the bulb holder from the clips on the left side of the selector lever console.
3. Remove the lamp with glass base from the socket.
Light bulbs in switches
Almost all switches have illuminated symbols, but this illumination is not meant to be replaced. Therefore, in the event of a defect, an unlit switch must be taken into account or replaced.
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