Interior light holder

The bulbs are cheap but I don't want to end up having to shell out for a new perspex cover or bulb holders. I managed the light sensor cover but this looks trickier. I think I might buy the bulbs, and the mud flaps from Aliexpress, and ask my local garage to fit them.

I actually bought a set of plastic "spudgers" off Amazon to make tasks such as this a lot easier.

And changing the lights really is easy ... clear plastic cover off to get access to the bulbs, and remove the whole enclosure from the roof lining - 2 screws inside the glasses holder, then the whole assembly pulls out - to make fitting the new LED bulbs very easy (as you can press on the back of the holders to stop them popping out).

I watched the video. I'm not so convinced! My heart was in my mouth as I removed the light sensor cover!

If you use a credit card/store card instead of a spudger it takes seconds and leaves no damage. Just push the long edge of the card up into the long edge of the diffuser and turn the card - the diffuser just pops out then.

Mine is done, anyway. I decided to ask the garage to fit the mud flaps and just got them to do the light while they were at it. It's great. I keep noticing the light coming on now, whereas before it just wasn't noticeable.

I changed mine over too, I found it much easier to unscrew the fixings in the sunglasses holder and change over that way. Massive difference in light now, should be great in winter.

I can't understand why MG fitted these birthday-cake candles in the first place. The entire car is bristling with LED lights, so scrimping on these two bulbs is senseless.

I did my interior lights today. Removed the clear plastic with a small screwdriver - very easy
pulled out the old bulb - easy
Licked the end of the new LED bulb and it slid in VERY easily.
The 2nd one didn't work, they have a polarity and removing it and turning it 180 deg and re-inserting worked.
No force needed if the end of the bulb is licked or wet.

Perhaps a bit of silicone grease would work too.

Just did this today on my new XPower. Replaced the old bulbs with "Philips Ultinon Pro6000 W5W T10 LED" 6000K lamps which cost me 14.90€ for the pair from Amazon (I'm in Germany) and I will keep the old ones in the glovebox for the lease return.
It was much easier do do than I thought, although the diffuser broke my plastic spodger on the first attempt to remove it, so ended up I using a sharp tipped steel spatula, levering from the front corner outwards. Both bulbs inserted the wrong round the first time, which causes a bit of a panic when it doesn't work immediately, so had to remove, rotate and replace them getting polarity right the second time. Pushing the diffuser back needed additional pressure at each tab to click it in place. Job done in less than 5 minutes.
Much happier with the brighter interior at night.