Rear Cigarette Lighter Illumination Bulb

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Special Tools And Workshop Equipment Required

Release Tool T40148

Removal

Fig 1: 12 V Socket 5 -U26- -Item 3

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-- Remove the mount for the cigarette lighter and the socket. .

-- The release tabs -2- on the release tool T40148 must engage in the openings in the cigarette light -3- -arrow- and the threaded pin -1- must slide down as far as the stop.

-- Open the cover -3- for the 12 V socket.

Fig 2: Identifying Cigarette Lighter

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-- Release the tab -4- and free up the connector -5- on the mount.

-- Remove the cigarette lighter -6-.

-- Slide the T40148 into the cigarette lighter -1- as far as the stop.

-- Rotate the thumb-wheel -2- on the T40148 clockwise as far as the stop.

The piston -2- is pulled upward and the release tabs -1- on the T40148 spread -arrows-.

Fig 3: Identifying Release Tool T40148, Removal
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-- Remove the cigarette lighter from the lighting ring with bulb using the T40148.

-- Open the clips -arrows-.

Fig 4: Identifying Socket Illumination Bulb

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-- Remove the cigarette lighter and illumination ring -1- from the mount -2-.

-- Guide the wire through the mount.

Installation

Fig 5: Identifying Support, Thumbwheel, Release Tabs, Release Tool T40148 & Cigarette Lighter

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Install in reverse order of removal, observing the following:

CAUTION:

Risk of injury.

After removing the T40148, check to see if the lighter retaining tabs are bent.
If the retaining tabs are bent, bend them back so the lighter does not slide out.

-- Remove the support -1- on the T40148.

-- Slide the piston down and hold it in place.

-- Rotate the thumb-wheel -4- on the T40148 counterclockwise -arrow-. This loosens the release tabs -2- on the cigarette lighter -item 3- so the T40148 can be removed.

-- Install the mount for the cigarette lighter and the socket. .