Removed trunk lid interior lights, now can’t get them to stay in place!

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01-15-2012, 05:37 PM

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Removed trunk lid interior lights, now can’t get them to stay in place!

A while back, as part of my earlier post https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/xj-x300-xjr-26/where-slcm-x300-remote-fob-programming-issues-usa-48049/, I had to get to the lights on the inside of the trunk lid to check for bulbs (there were none), since I understand that they are critical to fob operation.

I got behind the liner and pushed them through, in order to install bulbs, but now I can’t them to stay in place. If I push the light assemblies into their mounting holes, the next time I open the trunk, they’re dangling down from the holes.

I thought maybe I broke one of the tabs on each of them, since only one end has an L-shaped tab. I just procured replacements, and they look the same! Different tabs on each end.

I see that there’s a layer of stiff black plastic surrounding the back of the liner around each mounting hole. I don’t know if the tabs are supposed to go behind that, or between that and the liner?

I’m about ready to put them in with RTV, unless I’m missing something simple about what holds them in. Any suggestions?

(By the way, I still don’t have the fobs working. Currently my son-in-law has them to test using an oscilloscope to see if they’re really emitting RF and what the carrier freq is, for sure. Next I suppose I’ll check rear window antenna connection to the SLCM, and finally the SLCM itself?)

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