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Hi

I just bought new tail lights and i cant get the old ones out!
Someone told me to pour boilding water around the old ones to break the seal and they would just pop out?

Do I have to remove my bumper to get at the tail lights properly?

Please help

 
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hey, do you have a coupe or sedan? if you have a coupe, just pull back your carpet in your trunk and you will see the back of the tailight, now there will be 4 10mm bolts take those out and then your tail light will come right out. now if you got a sedan its pretty much the same thing except there is one bolt behind the bumper so yes you would have to drop the rear bumper.

 
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hell no dont pour boiling water...its called get a damn socketwrench and do it...boiling water would destroy your paintjob

 
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it's simple to swap taillights. the only downside is you ahve to take the bumper off if you're ridin' in a sedan.

 
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wtf???

Can't you just tell by looking at the set you're gonna put on right now? Didn't you notice the long bolts coming out of the back of the tail lights???

 
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some people arent' tooo keen with common sense.

 
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and i work with most of them

 
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Dude definetly has no common sense. putting taillights on is the easiest thing to do, aside from putting windshield washer fluid in.

 
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LMAO .. thats funny

 
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Don't need to pull the bumper out in sedan, just use a longer wrench to reach the screw behind the bumper as what I did.

 
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someone lock this thread already...geez.

 
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for mine i used some hydrochloric acid to get em out...didnt turn out too good....

 
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^is that a serious pic or just a photochop?

 
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thats serious. i bought some 01-03 stock tails from someone on here, to black out. anyways, i was almost done, that was the second one (first was done already), and i sprayed too much clearcoat, and it ran, so i decided to dab it with a paper towel, then it just got fvcked up and i scraped it off with a razor, and started over.

 
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lol is this guy trying to replace just the lens of the tail light wiht the new one or something? weird...

 
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boiling water = bad idea

like others have mentioned, take the bumper off if you're in a sedan. you'll find 2 bolts holdin' it down.

in fact, for mine, i just pulled the top part of the bumper back so i could reach the bolts.

Dada

 
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wouldn't the acid kill the paint?

 
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I hope ur kidding

 
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if ricers can do it, anyone can! go altezza's!

 
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are you trying to make civic soup?

 
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ahahaha its easy man.b ut yes for someone withotu a clue it could be hard tof igure out at first.

**** enver did figure a way to take the 2006 SI's tail lights off without removing the bumper. lol