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03-11-2003, 04:19 PM

eazyE690

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95-96 red-clear tail lights

ay its been a pain to find 96 red clar tail lights. i was thinking, does the 97-99 tail lights fit in a 96? cause i like the way the 97's look anyways. and if they dont were can i find the 95-96's cause i heard that they stopped making them. please help me out here

03-11-2003, 04:26 PM

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Re: 95-96 red-clear tail lights

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ay its been a pain to find 96 red clar tail lights. i was thinking, does the 97-99 tail lights fit in a 96? cause i like the way the 97's look anyways. and if they dont were can i find the 95-96's cause i heard that they stopped making them. please help me out here

i would say if you take it to body shop they diffinitly could fit it with some custom work to it. but it might look funky.

03-11-2003, 04:42 PM

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only the outters will fit, the inner trunk ones will not, nor will either match the contours in the 95/96 trunk lid

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03-11-2003, 05:22 PM

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only the outters will fit, the inner trunk ones will not, nor will either match the contours in the 95/96 trunk lid

Ant

Exactly!

In order to get red/clears on a 95/96 you have to be one lucky SOB like I happen to be and a few others on this forum and stumble across a set of all clear tails.

If you REALLY wanna change to the 97-99 style, you have to change all of your tails, your trunk, and your bumper.

03-11-2003, 05:51 PM

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Exactly!

In order to get red/clears on a 95/96 you have to be one lucky SOB like I happen to be and a few others on this forum and stumble across a set of all clear tails.

If you REALLY wanna change to the 97-99 style, you have to change all of your tails, your trunk, and your bumper.

yup

also be prepared to chalk up at least $200 for some red clears..

Sucks for you early 4th gennners, paid 4bucks for my clears

eric

03-11-2003, 08:47 PM

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from what i hear, you can take the 97-99 trunk lid and outer lights to make a 97-99 conversion in the rear.

03-12-2003, 03:27 AM

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If you REALLY wanna change to the 97-99 style, you have to change all of your tails, your trunk, and your bumper.

From what everyone else around here has been saying, I didn't realize the bumper had to be switched as well.

I'm getting a new trunk lid within a month (rust has developed around two spoiler feet). I was going to buy the 97-99 trunk lid, pick up the 97-99 inner tailights at a junkyard, and order the red/clears outer from custommaxima. How awkward would leaving the 96 bumper on the car with 97-99 trunk lid?

03-12-2003, 05:14 AM

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From what everyone else around here has been saying, I didn't realize the bumper had to be switched as well.

I'm getting a new trunk lid within a month (rust has developed around two spoiler feet). I was going to buy the 97-99 trunk lid, pick up the 97-99 inner tailights at a junkyard, and order the red/clears outer from custommaxima. How awkward would leaving the 96 bumper on the car with 97-99 trunk lid?

I don't know for sure. Because of the fact that I've got my own set of red/clears, I don't want to do the 97-99 conversion, but I think I read here that you had to change the bumper as well because of the fact that the trunk lid didn't line up with it right.