Changing Glove Box light to LED tape light

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Sat Systems
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Qashqai Model: Mk.1 Qashqai - J10 (2006–2013)

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Many thanks for all your help/guidance, it proved most useful. Job done quite a while back and all went fine. many people replace the glove box light with an LED bulb, and for them it would appear fine, however, I did the conversion the following way and have to say its superb.


Cut the bulb holder off and soldered on an LED strip light, bought on ebay. 4 x strips for just £2.99. Thought the quality might be suspect, no need to worry.


The strip has an adhesive backing and sticks to the roof of the glove box. Made the wiring long enough should it have to be replaced in the future, easily.


My passenger loves the new LED glove box lighting, if my wife is happy, then so am I. To do the new wiring/soldering comfortably, it is perhaps best to remove the glove box unit, after finding ALL the screws.



Regards Roger

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