Footwell lights - How many?

[Mag_Pie]

With the mornings staying darker on my way to work and now noticing the interior lighting, I appear to only have footwell lighting on the drivers side.  I'm right in thinking that there should be something on the passengers side as well aren't I?

I had a look on that side and I appear to just have a whole where I think the light should be.  I'm going to mention it at service time, I just hope that they believe I've not swiped it myself.

[p3asa]

Yeah you should have 1 in both the passenger and drivers side.
I wouldn't wait for service personally as that is generally 12 months later.

[dv52]

With the mornings staying darker on my way to work and now noticing the interior lighting, I appear to only have footwell lighting on the drivers side.  I'm right in thinking that there should be something on the passengers side as well aren't I?

I had a look on that side and I appear to just have a whole where I think the light should be.  I'm going to mention it at service time, I just hope that they believe I've not swiped it myself.

Yep, as p3asa says there are two foorwell lights at the front of the mk7.
Here's a pic showing locations (for LHD vehicle)
Cheers
Don

[Booth11]

With the mornings staying darker on my way to work and now noticing the interior lighting, I appear to only have footwell lighting on the drivers side.  I'm right in thinking that there should be something on the passengers side as well aren't I?

I had a look on that side and I appear to just have a whole where I think the light should be.  I'm going to mention it at service time, I just hope that they believe I've not swiped it myself.

Have you had a feel around in the hole?  Perhaps the light fitting has become unclipped and gone back up into the cavity.  If it is completely missing, then as said, I wouldn't wait, I'd get it looked sooner.

[MXResonance]

I was having a play around with the footwell lights last night and found that the passenger side light has a really short cable connector going to it, if someone else has been fiddling with the light I can easier see it being pulled back through the hole because of the tension on the cable.

[kevinm]

Those lights are pushed in from the front so I really doubt it could have gone behind the trim. I cant see the light falling out as the wire to the light on the passenger side is very tight, as has been said above.

[GeoBog]

Have you had the car serviced recently? There is a high chance that somebody nicked it. Or if it is new, most probably they haven't fitted it at factory.

[Millzy68]

I currently have a GTD but I'm due to collect an R in December, are the footwell lights and the door sill lights the same colour on the R as they are on the GTD ?

[GeoBog]

No. The ambient lighting is:

GTD - white
GTI - red
R - blue

[Mag_Pie]

Have you had the car serviced recently? There is a high chance that somebody nicked it. Or if it is new, most probably they haven't fitted it at factory.

Not yet, I'm wondering if it was a case of someone desperate for a spare part in a rush as it was pre reg. I need to have a good luck to make sure that it isn't hidden up in the dash first. I got the car in the 'light night' months so never really experienced full on darkness.

Thanks for the diagram dv52, I now know exactly where to check.