{"id":7804,"date":"2024-09-30T08:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T08:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2024-09-30T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:05:12","slug":"mb-sprinter-tail-light-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/mb-sprinter-ruecklicht-ausbauen\/","title":{"rendered":"MB Sprinter - Remove rear light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_87_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/mb-sprinter-ruecklicht-ausbauen\/#Ausbau_des_Rucklichts\" >Removing the rear light<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/mb-sprinter-ruecklicht-ausbauen\/#Ausbau_des_Lampentragers\" >Removing the lamp holder<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/mb-sprinter-ruecklicht-ausbauen\/#Lampentausch\" >Lamp replacement<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/mb-sprinter-ruecklicht-ausbauen\/#Lampentrager_einbauen\" >Installing the lamp holder<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/mb-sprinter-ruecklicht-ausbauen\/#Rucklicht_einbauen\" >Installing the rear light<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A defective bulb is sometimes the reason to remove the tail light in question in order to replace it with a functional one. <em>Know how<\/em> here again is the solution to the puzzle regarding the question: \"How do I remove the rear light?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following instructions refer to MB Sprinter from 2019 onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ausbau_des_Rucklichts\"><\/span>Removing the rear light<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three Torx screws on the recessed inside hold the entire rear light unit to the body. After loosening the three screws, the rear light can be moved about one centimeter away from the body, but cannot be removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The side attachment of the rear light is not, as one might generally assume, secured with clamps or the usual retaining devices. Therefore, DO NOT try to pull the rear light out of these by force. There is too great a risk of the comparatively delicate brackets tearing off if handled incorrectly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the tail light has been returned to its original, adjacent position and the door has been closed, step to the side, with your back towards the front of the vehicle, next to the tail light and hit it (with feeling) from the side in the middle, directing the thrust backwards, away from yourself and the rear of the vehicle. It is therefore a pushing \"blow\", not a vertical one.<br>The rear light slips out of the three round, T-shaped brackets and can now be easily removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ausbau_des_Lampentragers\"><\/span>Removing the lamp holder<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six lateral and one further plastic tab hold the lamp holder with the cable plug connection in position. Carefully move these tabs away from the lamp carrier until it is free and can therefore be removed.<br>It is not necessary to disconnect the plug connection, as the wiring harness is long enough to replace the bulb!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lampentausch\"><\/span>Lamp replacement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defective bulb can now be removed from the bayonet catch, checked and replaced if necessary However, sometimes the bulb is whole and only a contact problem (e.g. due to oxidation) is the cause of the failure. If in doubt, apply contact spray prophylactically to prevent future oxidation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lampentrager_einbauen\"><\/span>Installing the lamp holder<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the function has been restored, the lamp holder is replaced - in the correct alignment - and pressed down until all retaining tabs are engaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rucklicht_einbauen\"><\/span>Installing the rear light<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rear light is now first aligned with the T-shaped ones and then pushed onto them towards the front of the vehicle. The three Torx screws can then be screwed back in after opening the door(s).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>A defective bulb is sometimes the reason to remove the tail light in question in order to replace it with a functional one. The answer to the question: \"How do I remove the rear light?\" is once again the answer to the riddle: \"How do I remove the rear light?\" The following instructions refer to MB Sprinter from model year 2019. Removing the tail light Three Torx screws on the recessed inside hold the bulb in place.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/mb-sprinter-ruecklicht-ausbauen\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More \"<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MB Sprinter - Remove rear light<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3556],"tags":[3602,3603,3604,3605,2857,3601,2856,2931],"class_list":["post-7804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sprinter","tag-ausbauen","tag-einbauen-lampentraeger","tag-kabelbaum","tag-lampentausch","tag-mb-sprinter","tag-ruecklicht","tag-sprinter","tag-steckverbindung"],"modified_by":"Achim Goerner","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csiag.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}