Melting interior light

[Exlimey]

This may have been covered before but,working on the car with the door open for a while, I found that the interior light completly melted its switch . I have replaced the bulb with Sylvania 6418 LED. Now it only works when door opens but that’s fine with me. Original festoon was 5w.

[BDA]

I don’t believe I’ve heard of that before! The melting obviously screwed up the switch. Another reason to use LEDs. A new lamp should be pretty easy to find if you decide you want it.

[4129R]

Could be a faulty manual switch on the light itself.

It happened to me.

[jbcollier]

The interior lights are plastic and not meant for continuous use.  I've seen lots of melted ones on MGBs.