Hello to all. Long time lurker, first time poster. Great discussion here on updating the dark interior lights. Learned a lot reading and viewing the pics posted. The one thing that I noticed in the whole discussion here is that everybody complaining about how hard to change the rear dome light and I found an easier way of doing it. Basically, do not try to pop out the plastic cover using trim tool or old credit card. The whole dome light housing is held by 2 clips on the rear side, just give a firm pull downward and it should come off. Please see the series of pics I took doing this.

 

front side of the dome light
- red circles are the tabs that holds the whole housing in place
- green ovals are the tabs for the plastic cover
- yellow circle is the back side of the dome light

 

front side view
- green circles are the tabs for the plastic cover

 

here's the view of the back side of the dome light housing.
to replace the light push the tab towards the direction of the arrows, start with red first before doing the one with the green arrow.

 

here's the holder removed and flipped over.
the white-colored part is the power cable connector

 

and here's the pic of the cable on the roof liner. to detach the dome light housing, you just push the tab towards the direction of the red arrow and separate the connectors.

 

here's my led replacement. there's about 1mm distance between the top of the bulb and the edge of the plastic housing



test it for polarity before putting the holder back in place.

 

here's the plastic cover showing you the 6 tabs that keep it in place.



here's the dome light housing, showing you the location of the 2 white tabs that keep the whole thing on the roof liner. the tabs are about 3/4-1 inch from the edge of the plastic cover, and this is the area that you will need to pull downward to remove it.

 

Great pictures! Im loving the fronts and the puddle/door leds. Not too sure about the interior lights being white though, might be too bright.

 

Thanks for the write up

 

Nice pictures. These shots do speak a thousand words

 

Great thread, can you please specify the exact bulb used for daytime running lights? I think its the 9005 but wanted to make sure its plug and play. Thank you so much !

Cheers,

Ron

 

Great thread . . . Any suggestions on how to remove the footwell lights? Mine seem pretty stuck in there and I don't want to put too much pressure with needlenose pliers causing the bulbs to break as I try to remove and put in the LEDs! BTW, I've read all the various threads including ones in the other sections for GS, IS, etc.

 

GCTJ, I used pliers to remove the bulbs in the footwell area. It's a tight fit. Taking it apart is also possible on the passenger side. But I couldn't quite do the driver side. Good luck.

 

Hi kitlz, I also used pliers to remove/insert an led bulb in rear dome assembly on my 2013 RX removing only clear plastic cover. The replacement took just couple minutes. The bulb I used was Sylvania LED 194 and this bulb has a cover, so it's safe to use the pliers for the grip. I have another question although. I'm thinking to replace the puddle bulbs under the mirrors and the original bulbs have dimming effect at on and off operations. My question is: Will the LED bulbs have the same dimming effect after the replacement and if not are there on the market some LED bulbs with the dimming effect and if so where can I buy them.
Thanks a lot.