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Removing tailights?

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    rice cracker VVT-i's Cracker

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    Removing tailights?

    I'm having some problems taking off my tail lights (95 Rolla) and I need your help in removing the last connectors. It's those two little black plastic things on the outside edge.. How do you get them off?

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    Anyone? Please help!
    rice cracker, May 2, 2005
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    Rolla95 Rollin' Out y0

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    mine all i did was remove i think just one nut and the 2 clips and it pretty much slid out, push it out towards the side of the car and the wires u take off when its off the car
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    I've got it loose enough to wiggle after removing the two big nuts and the brass nut/washer. But those two black things are holding the light in still. I can't figure out how to get them to release... :sad:
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    thats where u gotta slide it out to the side of the car, that gave me trouble too
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    rice cracker VVT-i's Cracker

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    there is a part on the top of the lights (if you're looking from hte back) that prevents me from sliding it to the side more than a couple millimeters...
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    Hm. If they are anything like the 01-02 reverse lights... You might need one of those plastic body pin poppers.. kinda looks like a flathead screwdiver thats angled and has a notch in it. You can get good pressure and angle on the pin and pop it up without breaking anything. I broke mine because I didn't have one.

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    Oh, maybe not.. I dont know. What Rolla 95 said sounds right. Maybe you need to put a little more pressure on it. careful!
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    so it finally came off damn it. It pulled straight out and not to the side. I still couldn't figure it out so I called my roommate out to help and in 2 seconds it popped right out for him... Ai ya!
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    :D Cool. It just takes someone else that doesn't care so much about your car to rip something off of it with a little more force than you. haha
    statik, May 3, 2005
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    that kind of thing always happens with my friends dad... we'll be working on something for like 4 hours and then go "wayne help"... and hell come out to the garage and in like 3 seconds pop and its off... we've even gone so far as to make bets on how long it will take him once we call him out.
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    aw man, i shoulda came to vvt-i sooner....i could told you that, hehe....
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