How to Replace Door Light Bulbs 2002-09 Toyota 4Runner

Hey friends, it's Len here from 1A Auto. Today we're going to be working on our 2006 Toyota 4Runner and I wanted to show you how to remove and reinstall one of these little lights right here. It's going to be the same for every door, so I only need to show you on one and you can use the same process on that door over there, that one, this one. Do them all. Why not?

For us, today what we're going to do is we're going to change out the bulb with one of these nice, beautiful LED bulbs. It's all the rage right now. Why not?

All right. So let's get right down here with our pocket screwdriver, come right along this side, go up and just try to pop it down. If it seems like it's still caught on this side that's okay. Just go like this. Here we are. We're going to press on this little tab right here. You can use your finger or the pocket screwdriver, whatever you want to do. Press it, pull out that wiring.

I always take a look at my wiring to make sure there's no funny colors in there. If you see any greens, blues, reds, well, anything besides metal, you're going to either clean it or replace it. This one looks great. We'll set aside and we can continue.

All right, so let's get started. Grab this. I'm just going to go right along here, give it a little twist and just try to lift that lens up. Come over here and do the same thing. Give it a twist and lift the lens. It comes right off.

Right in here you can see where your 194 bulb is. Carefully grab that. It is glass, so you don't want to squeeze it and break it, but we do need to get it out of there, so sometimes you just need to try to get a good hold on it, give it a little wiggle. If you can't get it out by your fingers that's okay. We'll just grab some pliers and we'll lightly try to give it a nice tug.

All right. So I grabbed some pliers. We're going to carefully grab the bulb. You don't want to squeeze very hard. You just want to get a grip on it, wiggle it side to side just like this as you pull up. There's your 194 bulb.

So if you take a look at the filament, which is the little wire that goes between this prong and that prong over there, that filament is broken where it has a little crusties on it. I would just replace it, simple as a 194 bulb. Me personally, I don't see why not. Let's go with one of these bad boys.

You take it, you can see the prongs inside there so you know which way the bulb has to go. All right, you can't go this way. It has to go side to side. Just going to carefully place it in there. So we're just going to take our cover, bring it over, latch it in there, make sure it's secure. Let's go back over to the vehicle and install.

Just going to plug it in. We've got our area for the tab. We're going to line that up with the tab and slide it in. Fancy. That's exciting. Just get it up in there. That looks amazing, I would say way better than OEM. I'm going to keep it.

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