2015 4runner Map Lighting Housing Removal

[Toyota4runnerguy]

Need help in removing my 2015 4runner map light housing. Trying to remove the whole housing to do some repair. Any help would be greatly appreciated..
Thanks

 

[EEEliminator]

Need help in removing my 2015 4runner map light housing. Trying to remove the whole housing to do some repair. Any help would be greatly appreciated..
Thanks

Just grab a hold of and pull down as hard as you can... or did you mean without breaking it?:noidea:

 

[Toyota4runnerguy]

I'm thinking about doing that

 

[Engineer]

IIRC there are two small Philips head screws under the home link unit. What I do not recall is if those screws are actually holding the entire assembly up or if they just hold the smaller unit to the assembly. Ether way I do remember gently prying to remove a small portion of the unit, undoing a couple screws and then gently prying to remove the rest of the unit. There is a third screw but I am 90% certain that it is just holding a sub assembly together and not the entire unit to the roof. If you don't have a set of plastic trim removal tools I would get one, best $13ish bucks ever spent.

Also the wiring to the switches is easy to remove but there is a central wiring harness that was a pain, I had to remove the actual wiring from a tie down to be able to clear enough space to get the plug out (will make sense once your in there).

I can get you more details this evening if you need. Also curious as to what you need to repair in there.

 

[Ducmonsta]

[MENTION=83083]rigtec[/MENTION] has a great write up on this issue. He even addresses the difficulty in removing the small bulb with some scotch tape.

Edit: Sorry, I thought you were just looking to remove the bulbs and didn't completely read the first post. whoops!

 

[cjacob316]

There should be two screws under your sunglass holder then you just pull straight down.

 

[rigtec]

Edit: Sorry, I thought you were just looking to remove the bulbs and didn't completely read the first post. whoops!

Hahaha! Yeah unfortunately I never removed the entire lamp assembly, but now I get to see what happens to this guy when he tries to get it down op2: Cheers...