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      04-20-2013, 09:59 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by TonySCV View Post
The light in the glove box is very temperamental, and given the light is always on when the glove box lid is open, you run a high risk of blowing the fuse if you try to replace the bulb while it is powered (I did, mainly by following the advice above of using a round OEM LED replacement bulb, which I believe is incorrect - it's the same bulb housing as the rear footwell bulbs which require the flat LED OEM lights. The round one may work fine for you, it did not for me at all until I swapped it out with a flat one - a nice bonus is that the flat OEM LED bulb is a bit brighter.). The safest thing to do would be to remove the fuse that powers the glove box first, then change out the bulb. Using the OEM LED retrofit kit:
Really sorry to hear some of you blow the fuse when changing the glovebox light . The circular one worked fine for my car and my friend's F10. Maybe the Right Hand Drive cars are different?
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