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Old 05-23-2007, 06:27 PM
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basically one of my taillights went out and i can't figure out how to get to the bulb.
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Pull the carpet away from the weather strip. There's like 3 or 4 plastic nuts per head light, take those off, pull out tail light, replace bulb.
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Remove the very back plastic pieces (the one's that hold the speakers).

Bend the rear carpet back out of the way.

If you need to remove the left tail light, just remove the black wing nuts

If you need to remove the right tail light, you are going to have to take out the jack and spare to reach the black wing nuts.

I hope that helps
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Yeah...it's 2 wing nuts per side, at least on a Camaro, and I am assuming by your sig pics that you have a Camaro.
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4 per side on a TA,,,2 on each side of each taillight section. I did not have to remove my tire, jack, or even my rear side panels to get to them. The nuts will strip out very easy so be careful,,or you will need to buy some 1/4-20 machine screw nuts from the local hardware store,,they work great, and are cheap!!!
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Originally Posted by Bad Blue WS6
4 per side on a TA,,,2 on each side of each taillight section. I did not have to remove my tire, jack, or even my rear side panels to get to them. The nuts will strip out very easy so be careful,,or you will need to buy some 1/4-20 machine screw nuts from the local hardware store,,they work great, and are cheap!!!
Then you must have a different T/A than everyone else! I'm pretty sure they all have 5 on each side, and you have to remove the jack to get to the end one on the Passenger side.
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Originally Posted by ninetnineta
I believe this is to be true { 5 on each side - and may have to remove jack and spare tire on pass side } four in a group { squared } and one for the end ( by itself ) wrap around .

they are the plastic ( wing type nuts ) , I had to replace the power antenea and the center panel ( did both while all displaced ) with the spare tire and jack removed and both tail light assemblies (for the center panel ). Of course, this is for the 98 - 02 trans am.

Well it doesn't really matter, since the guy asking has a Camaro, not a TA and therefore only two wingnuts!
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yep,,they are there,,,i have never had to go into the spare compartment
(i just used what i needed for my amp rack install,,had 4 for the left, and 4 for the right) i did not know there are more in the spare tire area. thanx for the info!



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