Ford Cargo Area Badge Light Installation with Pictures

writ­ten 3/31/25, updat­ed 3/31/25

Overview

What

Installing a Car­go Area Badge Light on a 2024 Mus­tang Mach‑E

Why

For fun (had excess Ford­pass points to use!)

Time and Effort

Time: 20 min­utes

Effort: Easy

Materials and Cost

Supplies

Ford Car­go Area Badge Light

Scis­sors

Painter’s Tape

Cost

$10.55 ship­ping + tax (Used 23,800 Ford­Pass points, $119.00 MSRP)

Process

  • Open trunk
  • Remove car­go cov­er, if using

Push up on the end to get it to snap out of the hook

  • Read instruc­tions
  • Unroll the guide and cut around the out­side lines
  • Cut the inte­ri­or box as instruct­ed
  • Locate the por­tion of the trunk door inte­ri­or where it’s going to go, then tape the tem­plate onto it

The trim pan­el in the mid­dle is so use­ful to have. Just line the paper up with it, words leg­i­ble. I put the painter’s tape up and creased it out of the way for easy access because the paper keeps want­i­ng to roll up on you.

  • Find the lit­tle alco­hol pack­et that comes with the kit (I did­n’t even real­ize it came with one. D’oh!) and wipe the area with­in the cutout in the mid­dle
  • Pay atten­tion to the instruc­tions here! Locate the mount and ori­ent it cor­rect­ly with­in the mid­dle cutout. Tab to the LEFT (oth­er­wise your badge will be upside down)
  • Peel off the adhe­sive back­ing, fit it into the cutout, and press firm­ly along the length of the mount for at least 60 sec­onds

Boom, baby! Ehh, it’s a lit­tle off-cen­ter, but that’s okay.

  • Remove the tem­plate
  • Now for the hard­est part of the install: con­nect­ing the light, itself
  • Look at the bot­tom of the badge light and note the rec­tan­gle where that will fit in the tab that need­ed to be point­ed left. You have to first push that into the tab and then press firm­ly so that the hor­i­zon­tal lines snap into the grip­pers on the mount. You need to hear a bunch of clicks (Notice that it uses CR2450 x2 bat­ter­ies)
  • This is a lit­tle bit eas­i­er to say than do (at least for me), so I employed the use of the painter’s tape to give me a gen­er­al idea of where the tab was+
  • Sev­er­al clicks lat­er, VOILA!
  • Peel off the pro­tec­tive film and enjoy your new badge light!

Out­side and inside view. I won­der if the glare will both­er me…

COMPLETO!

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