How To Remove Corner Lights for New Bulbs

[Chim55117]

Amateur question here.

How do I get the two corner/marker lights out of the front of the car to replace the signal bulbs?

Thanks in advance, pictures would be awesome as well!

 

[SmoothCustomer]

Sorry I'm not at home so I can't get pics but it really incredibly simple once you do it once. Look behind where the corner lights are, but from the engine bay. You will see a black spring thing. It is a hook for the light. See it? Pull it so that it releases. Now, just pull the assembly from the front straight out. It will be attached by a wire, attached to the bulb and such by a clip. See it? Unclip it. There you go /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[prove_it]

They can be a pain to get out. You need to pull straight out completly horizontal to the body line. there are two plastic pins that guide the lamp assembly and kinda hold it in. After a long time the pins can get stubborn. Take a stiff piece of plastic and stick it in behind the lamp and wiggle it loose. I have some plastic trim removers that I use so I don't scratch the paint and I push the lamps out from the rear. Just be careful because those pins can break easy. If you do, the lamps will still go in, but they will "sag" a bit.

 

[mikus]

+1 plastic trim removal tool, shimmy it between the back and the lamp. A trim removal tool is handy to have, like IPD's "bone tool" but there's a zillion out there

 

[Hertz]

On the driver's side, you may find it helpful to remove the coolant overflow bottle. No need to unbolt anything, the bottle slides diagonally up off the rail towards the center of the car. That's the best place to get a look at what's going on in there.

On the passenger side, depending on your mods, you may be reaching into the little airbox? It's been a long time since I've had a stock setup in that area so I don't remember.

The spring hooks you're pulling on go towards the front of the car to release the tension and then slightly outwards (away from engine bay) to clear the latch point.

The corners themselves are then freed up to pull straight forward towards front of the car... do not pull away from the sides until all the tabs are cleared. It's very easy to break the tabs.