Try using a flathead screw driver with tape over the blade. Start from the side toward the rear of the car first...that's were the spring clips are at (don't start on the side that is toward the front of the car - that's where the plastic tabs of the light cover hooks into the headliner. If you do, it's guaranteed that you'll break them). The light near the rear view mirror even have an indentation for you to slip in a flathead screw driver.