taking off the tailight on a coupe

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May 12, 2005

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taking off the tailight on a coupe

Hello all

a real quick question, I wanna know exactly how to take out a tailight on a 2004 civic coupe. I'm assuming it's nothing complicated, but I'm doing this for my friend, so I wanna make sure I get it right

thanks a lot

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KEVIN

May 12, 2005

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look on the back of the light and thay are 4 or 5 gold nuts gust loosen them up and tack the bulbs out and you are good to go not hard takes like 5min for bothe sides

May 12, 2005

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thanks a lot ...

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easy

yeah it should be fairly easily,by the way it also listed in the manual

May 12, 2005

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yeah i think its 8 or 10 mm sockets if u wanna do it easier. i think 10. then just unplug the lights then they pop right out.

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10 mm everything on our cars is 10, 14 or 17 i swear

May 12, 2005

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I know it sounds dumb...but these nuts are these hexagonal things rite??

I have the tools for those ...

thanks a lot, to all of u

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Kevin

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10 mm everything on our cars is 10, 14 or 17 i swear

theres a lot of 8 mm under the hood and holding on heat shields.

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please tell me your friend is not putting altezzas on his 04

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please tell me your friend is not putting altezzas on his 04

i was thinking the same as well haha

well, if your buddy is installing altezzas or aftermarket tails off his coupe, ill be glad to buy his OEM ones

most of the nuts are 10mm for those minor pieces (grounding wires, battery, alternator, firewall, etc. the major pieces like exhaust/suspension/tranmission/etc use bigger bolts

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theres a lot of 8 mm under the hood and holding on heat shields.

YOU ARE A GOD FOR GIVING ME THAT SIZE!!!! I never actually tried to find out what size they were. I need to put my heat shield over my manifold, but they gave no bolts w/it, and I lost mine somewhere. I dont know how, I saved everything seperate and labeled. Ill go steal, I mean buy some from Home Depot later, thanks a lot! lol

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8mm is what the nuts are... i used that as a ground spot for my amp so had to take off one of them\

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Quote:

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theres a lot of 8 mm under the hood and holding on heat shields.

I'm with Booba5185 on this one. There is not a lot of 8 mm under the hood. Maybe I just don't know what your talking about

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actually u can hand loosen the nuts for the tails.. i did.. jsut took them off with my fingers lol

maybe thatw as jsut me

takes 2 minutes

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^ yeah, stock they are pretty loose

May 16, 2005

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thanks guyz.....

I just finished installing it on my friend's car this past weekend...

She backed into a car a few months ago, and asked me to find an OEM tail light for her, so that's what I did...

everything worked out! and she was happy...

I actually own a solara, and part of solaraguy.com

anyway...thanks for those who helped out

GOd bless

Kevin