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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…
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The manual is strangely silent about the existence of the coils
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My use of color does not match the industrial convention
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The little hex standoffs have M3 threads, although 6 mm screws are about as much as they’ll take
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The cross-legged layout conceals the emitter and base leads being soldered snugly to the former OUT and GND terminals
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Apply more force than you think appropriate and the latches will reluctantly give way
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You could devote more time to smoothing / reverse-engineering the shapes
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 