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Old Jun 25, 2006 | 03:26 PM
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feeling like an idiot- Taillights

So how hard can it be to remove the taillights. LoL I duno I took the 2 top bolts off and the other 2 on the lower part of the taillight will NOT MOVE. I mean if I turn them any harder I know I will brake em & yes I am loosening em LoL. Maybe I trying to unscrew to wrong bolts? I feel like such an *** . Anyone have a link to a step by step thing I searched cant find it.
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Old Jun 25, 2006 | 03:33 PM
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Those two aren't bolts, they're welded nuts for the plastic things that hold the taillights on.

Slide the taillight outward from the center of the car (it takes a little bit of force), and they'll come right out.
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Old Jun 25, 2006 | 03:36 PM
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there should be like 4 bolts on the pass side and drivers...when u open the hatch ..after u get the screws out u have to push the tailight inwards and to the right ( if its the pas side) and they should slide out
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Old Jun 25, 2006 | 04:01 PM
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LOL! I had the same prob when I first bought my FD...I used this link:
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ight=tailights

But everyone above is right, they slide out to the side, you can't pull them straight back.
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Old Jun 25, 2006 | 04:04 PM
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first time i pulled mine out and thought it was just clips
good thing i didnt break anything
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Old Jun 25, 2006 | 07:58 PM
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I think the hardest part was putting the lights back in...granted i was swapping mine to '99 spec. But i couldn't manage to squeeze the pegs back into the body of the car...i was Sooooo afraid of breaking one of them, but eventually it worked.
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