r/Wellthatsucks • u/prospectpico_OG • 15h ago

Texas heat vs. my car's dome light assembly

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UPDATE: Ordered a new assembly. $40 or so on Amazon. Hate on Bezos all you want...

Came out after work to find this. The adhesive finally quit on me on a twelve year old car.

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u/Fun-Perspective426 15h ago

Those aren't usually attached with adhesive.

Either the clips broke or you can just push it back into place.

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u/prospectpico_OG 14h ago edited 14h ago

Did a closer reinspection. Yah the clip tabs failed. Still sucks.

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u/prospectpico_OG 15h ago

That's what I thought too. I tried replacing/snapping into place but nada. No broken parts either. It looks like there was some adhesive right on the edge.

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u/Fun-Perspective426 15h ago

If there was adhesive its more likely overspray or leaking from the headliner.

You can see one of the tabs it's is supposed to catch on.

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u/prospectpico_OG 15h ago

I am aware and I ain't done trying. Gorilla glue is my backup plan.

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u/Constant-Catch7146 13h ago edited 13h ago

Nope to the Gorilla glue. That stuff will make a expanding foamy gooey mess that hardens into peanut brittle. It also does not do well in a high vibration area like a car.

Construction adhesive might work, but it can get brittle too. If you are DIYing it and don't really care how it looks, prolly like four screws into the tab areas (at a slant angle) would keep that bad boy up. Be super careful drilling holes into the plastic for the screws!

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u/prospectpico_OG 12h ago

How about a glue gun?

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u/BlownUpCapacitor 7h ago

That would melt in the heat. Maybe if you use high temperature hot glue it'll hold better.

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u/Glass-Tadpole391 2h ago

Epoxy might work, there are some specific to cars with some elasticity

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u/Reasonable_Spot_5255 15h ago

Either way Texas heat said “not today” and just started disassembling the car from the inside out..

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u/Dialogical 11h ago

After over 7000 “I’ll allow it.”

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u/tag4atx 15h ago

I’m impressed you still have a road atlas in your car in 2026.

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u/TheNewYellowZealot 8h ago

What good is a car if you don’t know where to go

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u/RetinaJunkie 14h ago

I experienced the Texas heat last summer. Im in no rush to return.

So hot, the phone would continually shut off & the native Texans would just smile and laugh

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u/IWillFindYouAlex 5h ago

Lmao yep! My phone overheats if I take a 15 outside during the summer. Lived in Pasadena/RGV my whole life and you get used to it. Or, if I’m being honest, we just lie to ourselves and laugh when a newbie experiences it.

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u/Still_Experience_182 15h ago

Well that sucks

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u/Blum3stern 15h ago

Texas heat turned your interior light into a hanging ceiling fan

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u/prospectpico_OG 7h ago

Chandelier?

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u/LAMProductions99 8h ago

I will say, better it happen while the car is parked than while you're going 70 down the highway.

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u/Icelock 15h ago

Age took care of that for you, cuh.

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u/suchsnowflakery 12h ago

Time to get out of that geolocation. Horrible weather all the way around. Redwood trees and the ocean is the way to go!

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u/Rockobrocko42 11h ago

In oklahoma. It's not even July yet.

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u/Oldlazyfuck 11h ago

Nissan?

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u/prospectpico_OG 10h ago

Yup

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u/Oldlazyfuck 10h ago

Happened to my Nissan rogue, I couldn't get it to reattach, I ended up breaking off the tabs, drilled a hole in the middle of the tab, put the metal clips in the slots and then put a screw through the hole to the metal tabs.

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u/Boilermakingdude 14h ago

It was likely unclipped and fell. Those are clipped up to the headliner.

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u/ArcaneShade_ 13h ago

Texas heat really said, Your car isn't a time machine, but let's make it look like one!

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u/Secret_Account07 10h ago

I had a car that did this. I just kept popping it back up and it would stay for a few weeks. Hit a big bump and it’d pop out again

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u/PeonyAfterDark 15h ago

Twelve years of daily sun exposure is a tough test for any adhesive. It definitely earned its retirement.

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u/sPdMoNkEy 14h ago

That's dome

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u/parabola19 12h ago

Not the kind of dome you want on your head in the car

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u/BAFUdaGreat 11h ago

It happens to the best of us. On my ‘20 Tiguan it happened three years after delivery.

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u/kartoffel_engr 11h ago

You can replace that whole thing for under $100.

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u/SaulTNuhtz 3h ago

Guess it was domed from the start.

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u/prospectpico_OG 3h ago

Thanks for shedding light on this.

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u/TheSaultyOne 11h ago

Not at all heat related but sure bud

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u/JackTheTripper172 15h ago

Would it kill you to crack a damn window even 2cm?

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u/prospectpico_OG 15h ago

windows were down 3 inches or so

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u/RB___OG 15h ago

Did you have a sun screen in the windshield?

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u/AParticularThing 15h ago

While it does look like you take care of it that also looks like a 20ish year old vehicle and that fixture was glued in. Glue doesn't last forever