The rear license plate light (right) is always reporting trouble. Sometimes I get off the bus and check it, but it really doesn’t come on. Tap it with my hand and it comes on again. So I had the idea of changing the lights.
The rear license plate light and the vehicle light are lit up together, which can be regarded as frequent lights. Because it is an ordinary T10 glass light bulb, it generates a lot of heat and consumes a lot of power. Over time, the heat may cause the socket to be burned out and cause poor contact. Therefore, I plan to change it to an LED light. It has little heat and little power consumption. It is confirmed that it has a high color temperature, which is a bit dazzling to the people behind the car. Fortunately, the brightness is not high and it is not direct. However, this lamp of mine is still good. The color temperature is estimated to be 6000K. It is much better than the purple-colored (blue) ones in the shanzhai.
I always wanted to change it, but I couldn’t find a way to take apart the trunk lining, so I broke the lining. The weather was good yesterday, so I made up my mind and started it.
Since it was already winter, I was worried that the plastic buckle would be damaged when removing the inner lining, so I drove the car into the sun and dried it for an hour. The car was made of iron and had a temperature of about 40 degrees, and then started construction.
The whole process went smoothly, and the buckle was not damaged. People with some hands-on skills could basically complete it, but I made the statement first, and I will not be responsible for tearing it down.
Remove the 3 plastic buckles in the circle in the picture. Use a split pry blade to pry it out easily. Rotate while prying, try and try to do it. Don’t rush.
The shape of the plastic buckle is shown at the lower left foot in the picture.
After the three plastic buckles are removed, you can start from the left and slowly try to pull the plastic pressing plate (horizontal direction, towards the rear of the car), which will pull out the four metal card slots one by one. This one from Mercedes-Benz is well designed and has just the right elasticity. Unlike my other cars, it is made of plastic on both sides and is very hard and requires a lot of force.
There is a plastic clip that snaps onto the soft inner liner. After removal, the liner can be opened wider so that your hand can reach in and change the light.
4 sockets in the circle. Corresponding to the 4 metal inserts on the plastic cover plate.
After removing the plastic pressing plate, you can lift the soft inner lining, reach out to the position of the license plate light, touch blindly, and find the license plate light socket. You can gently shake the socket and observe the inside of the license plate light from the direction of the outside license plate to determine whether you have found the right license plate light.
This is the removed plastic pressing plate. There are 4 metal inserts in the 4 circles.
The 2 wires are the connection wires for the tailbox opening light and the tailbox closing button.
Reach in, touch blindly, find the license plate light plug, and rotate it (it seems to be 90 degrees counterclockwise). This requires a little effort because the plug has a rubber sealing ring. Light line color: Zong + white (?)
After you select it, you can replace the light bulb. I replaced it with an LED (T10 plug). The original car lights are glass T10 and Toshiba.
I didn’t replace this lamp because I only had copycat LEDs in my hand. I was worried that the quality was not good and the heat was too high, so I still used the original Toshiba T10. The lamp was of good quality. The outer glass looked very bright, transparent, not blackened, and there was no static dust attached to it. Another reason for not replacing it is that this light will not stay on long. When the door is opened for a certain period of time, it will automatically go out to protect the battery, and at the same time, don’t worry about burning out early.
AdaBrewster 
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September 5, 2024 
