We found the warning lights very difficult to get out using the spudger. Maybe that’s because our spudger is a bit chewed up, or maybe because the door trim is so soft that it’s hard to get any leverage. We concluded we weren’t going to get anywhere and we went with a very small flat-blade screwdriver, with some painters tape over the trim to protect it. This approach got the lights out pretty easily, but there is now a tiny nick at the bottom edge of each opening.
My son and I were wondering if a plastic flat blade screwdriver might have worked (I have one for adjusting trim pots but it’s tiny and even softer than the spudger). Another approach I just thought of would be to put the spudger part-way into the slot at the end of the light, and then put the flat-blade screwdriver in front of the spudger so that it can push off the spudger for better leverage.
Note that the new LED bulbs are so bright, and the trim is so dark, that at least on my car there is almost no time when you can actually see the nicks, unless you cover up the bulb.
Another thing: When we were removing the last of the four OEM bulbs, we actually had the connector (where the wires attach) come apart on us into two pieces. We were worried that we’d broken something, but there wasn’t any sign of damage, and I was able to snap the two sides back together and the result snapped into the bulb as usual.
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So if we substituted red lamps for all the interior footwell lights, we could pretend we're driving a submarine in attack mode??
Someone needs to figure out how to force the footwell lights on...there wasn't one when I asked a couple weeks ago.
