– Pull contact plate -arrow- off defective festoon bulb.
– Fit contact plate onto new festoon bulb (12 V/10 W).
Caution
♦ Do not touch glass envelope when fitting bulb. Fingers
leave traces of grease on the glass envelope, which evap‐
orate when the bulb is switched on and cause the glass
envelope to cloud over.
Installing
Installation is carried out in reverse order of removal.
6.2.4 Replacing centre reading light
Left centre reading light -W39- / right centre reading light -W40-
are removed and installed in same way and description is only
given for one.
Removing
– Remove front interior light -W1- ⇒ page 407 .
– Turn bulb holder -arrows- of left centre reading light -W39- by
90° to the left.
– Remove bulb holder together with bulb out of left centre read‐
ing light -W39- .
– Carefully pull glass-base bulb out of bulb holder.
– Renew glass-base bulb (12 V/5 W).
Caution
♦ Do not touch glass envelope when fitting bulb. Fingers
leave traces of grease on the glass envelope, which evap‐
orate when the bulb is switched on and cause the glass
envelope to cloud over.
Installing
Installation is carried out in reverse order of removal.
6.3 Rear interior light -W45- (vehicles with‐
out anti-theft alarm)
The following components are built into the rear interior light -
W45- :
♦ Rear interior light -W45-
♦ Rear left reading light -W11-
♦ Rear right reading light -W12-
Golf Variant 2007 ➤ , Golf Variant 2010 ➤ , Jetta 2005 ➤
Electrical system - Edition 07.2010
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