Golf Mk6 Puddle light

[SteBrown91]

My 2011 Mk6 Golf (Again) has a Driver side mirror puddle light with a lovely puddle in it! (ironic) Bit annoyed as it was replaced under warranty un January, and now out of warranty has leaked again.... anyway.

It appears you have to take the mirror to bits to replace/repair the light. Does anyone know if you can dismantle enough of the mirror in situ to get to it, or has it got to come off (which means door card etc has to come off too)?

To be brutally honest im tempted to just have them disabled in VAGCOM and forget about it (will probably be cheaper and easier)

Thanks

[martin mrt]

From memory, the outer colour coded cover can be removed, then the glass and this will allow access to the puddle light/indicator.

[SteBrown91]

martin mrt said:

From memory, the outer colour coded cover can be removed, then the glass and this will allow access to the puddle light/indicator.

Cheers will look into it, tempted to not replace it though I'd it leaks again :/

[Patch1875]

Even though it's out of warranty you should get replaced as it's faulty again within a year.

[va1o]

Patch1875 said:

Even though it's out of warranty you should get replaced as it's faulty again within a year.

Unfortunately that only works if you paid something towards it. If it was done under standard warranty then they don't have to do anything. If OP paid them them then yes they'd have to warrant that work independently for a year

[SteBrown91]

va1o said:

Unfortunately that only works if you paid something towards it. If it was done under standard warranty then they don't have to do anything. If OP paid them them then yes they'd have to warrant that work independently for a year

As above it was a 100% warranty claim so not worth the hassle of arguing (it would cost more in dealer diagnostic fees than the cost of the part)

[nickyboy29]

martin mrt said:

From memory, the outer colour coded cover can be removed, then the glass and this will allow access to the puddle light/indicator.

Martn if you see this can you contact me or reply. I saw your post on r32oc.com regarding the silver R32. I cant join that forum because the validation emails dont work, the Facebook and Twitter links dont work, and the contact admin link doesnt work.

Cheers