Interior Dome Light

Hey guys,

I ran into a small (hopefully?!) problem the other day when installing my new super bright white LED bulbs into the interior dome lights of my 2013 Dodge Ram 1500.

I installed the lower foot LED's with no problems, and then moved onto the two dome lights. I installed the driver side dome light with ease and re-installed the cover. Next, I moved onto the passenger side dome light, and installed the LED and it was working great. When I went to put the cap back on the LED, I snapped it into place, but as I did, the light immediately shut off. I figured I didn't install the LED all the way in, so I pulled the cap back off and tried to re-install the LED, with no luck. Figuring that I may have just gotten a bad LED, I tried the old one, and again, no light.

Now my passenger side dome light isn't working at all no matter what LED/OEM bulb I put in it, but the drivers side does.

Does anyone know what this issue is or how to resolve it?

Here is a picture for reference:

Pull the panel off and check the connection, you might of pulled it off by accident.

SYKRAMMAN said:

Pull the panel off and check the connection, you might of pulled it off by accident.

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Is it a pain to get off?

I had to replace my entire housing when I had the problem. But I had completely broken the clip inside. You might have been lucky enough to just knock it out of place.

Yes it was a bit of a pain to get off. The fastener clips are I kind of fragile and they broke when I took mine off. Granted, I was replacing it entirely anyway so I wasn't as careful as I could have been. But it wasn't easy. Just take your time and make sure you use a plastic trim tool and work it out. Putting it back in was an even bigger pain as the wiring connections aren't very long at all.

Here is a pretty good video for it.
https://youtu.be/w2i9vtrOV4U

When I installed mine I accidentally knocked out the plastic piece that clicks when you push the cover. When you put the clear cover back on did you hear it clicking when you pressed it

I had same issue it corrected in about 15 minutes after I put original bulb back
brianj

EVc96bKA said:

I had to replace my entire housing when I had the problem. But I had completely broken the clip inside. You might have been lucky enough to just knock it out of place.

Yes it was a bit of a pain to get off. The fastener clips are I kind of fragile and they broke when I took mine off. Granted, I was replacing it entirely anyway so I wasn't as careful as I could have been. But it wasn't easy. Just take your time and make sure you use a plastic trim tool and work it out. Putting it back in was an even bigger pain as the wiring connections aren't very long at all.

Here is a pretty good video for it.
https://youtu.be/w2i9vtrOV4U

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Thanks for that video, I'm going outside right now to pull it off and see what I can find out.

SwollenMonkey16 said:

When I installed mine I accidentally knocked out the plastic piece that clicks when you push the cover. When you put the clear cover back on did you hear it clicking when you pressed it

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It happened so fast that I couldn't even tell you for sure if it made a clicking sound or not. I was so pissed that I messed up such a simple task haha.

Bang on it with your hand, there is a plastic clicker piece that I knocked off when I put LEDs in and you could hear it rattling around up in there. After about 7 youtube videos and 20 min. of careful pulling I got my overhead pulled out and it just clipped right back into place. Good as new. Just a tip if you are super picky about your headliner, I wore rubber gloves and used my hands to pull it down. Trim stick, screwdriver were starting to dent the headliner

*** Great news ***

After taking the advice of all of the posts above, I went ahead and took down the entire panel with an old shoe/heel slip. Once the panel was down and I was able to see the clicker and where the LED lights go into, I realized I must have some how moved the white clicker panel out from making its connection. I snapped it back into place and it works like a charm now!

Thanks everyone for the help it is VERY much appreciated. I will deff be staying active on these forums.

jb772 said:

*** Great news ***

After taking the advice of all of the posts above, I went ahead and took down the entire panel with an old shoe/heel slip. Once the panel was down and I was able to see the clicker and where the LED lights go into, I realized I must have some how moved the white clicker panel out from making its connection. I snapped it back into place and it works like a charm now!

Thanks everyone for the help it is VERY much appreciated. I will deff be staying active on these forums.

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