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Any one have any idea how dome light in rear is supposed to come off. Need to run new wires due to fraying wires by passenger door. Did not want to break it of course. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi Welding Willy,

I have previously learned my lesson on giving advice on vehicles not EXACTLY the same as my car as, although I would assume other models of the same year and those only a year different, would be similar or same, that has proved to be incorrect on more than one occasion. Having said that, if your dome light looks like mine in the photo, it just clips on, with some dimples on the inner rim of the chrome ring, snapping into the light receptacle box. It should just pull straight down but if it hasn't been off in a long while, may require some side-to-side squizzling. Be careful with the glass lens as it is probably pretty brittle with age and easy to drop as the thing comes apart. Chris.

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Will be adding the word squizzling to my vocabulary. I imagine that a protracted period of squizzling could degenerate into a session of fiddlefutzing.

Damn! One never knows what one will learn when reading Packardinfo! Ernie in Arizona