Replacing sidelights

[N52]

Bought some smoked sidelights, haven't looked at the car yet as i'm at work.

Where do you remove them from, inside the frunk? Quick job?

The KB article didn't answer my question lol

[_Al_]

Pop the reflector out with a flat head screwdriver, single cross head screwdriver for the light itself. Swap bulbs, job done.

[topgun]

Dead easy job to do bud where the join is you will need a flat bladed instrument to prise the joint apart,when I part of the light is out you will see I screw undo that and the other part will come out undo the connetors reverse the process job done simples took me less than 3 minutes to do both sides

[N52]

Do you mean pop out the bits in the attached below?

(I thought thats where the sidelights plugged in? Maybe I looked at them too quickly)

I shall try when I get in, don't want to pop out any of the wrong parts and snap them

[topgun]

yes mate they are 2 separate pieces

[N52]

And I'm prizing it out with a flathead from the middle section yeah?

[topgun]

And I'm prizing it out with a flathead from the middle section yeah?

yes bud where the join is,it will either pop out easy or might take a bit more force depending how good the ball joint is what keeps them together

[N52]

Just swapped em over now, getting old crystal ones out was fine but boy the new smoked crystal ones! trying to seperate those things I nearly snapped them! don't want to take them out again :(

[Mrs_smitty]

When you pop them back together a spot of grease on the socket will help putting them back together and to get them apart in the future.

[N52]

Yeah I saw the previous owner had done that with the crystal lights so I copied

[topgun]

When you pop them back together a spot of grease on the socket will help putting them back together and to get them apart in the future.

Good point hun forgot to mention that