hello,
looking to install a passenger side taillight. any threads on this? any help would be appreciated.
thanks

 

It's pretty simple. Just take off the "carpet" that covers the taillgiht. Loosen the screws holding it in place, unplug the wires and pull it out.

 

i believe there is some cauking (or some other sealer) you should put in there.

This site mentions it, i believe:
http://www.kevinfisher.net/web_serve...light-mod.html

 

use some silicone. I did a swap tonight. Actaully the other guy did all th swapping i basically showed up. Thanx E55AMG2..

 

All good man, it was fun.

Steps:

1) Remove the clips holding in the back carpet
2) Pull up the black plastic on the bottom of the trunk sill
3) fold down the sides of the trunk lining
4) remove the white wire mounts from the threads of the 8mm nuts by using a flat head screwdriver and prying them up gently. Also, undo the light harness by pressing in the small tab and pulling simultaneously.
5) Loosen and remove the 4 nuts
6) Place a flat head screwdriver in a terry cloth towel and wedge it between the tail light and the inside of the trunk cutout. Right where the trunk covers when its closed.
7) gently pry the light out, once the seal is broken, push them out from the back.
8) Take new taillight, run a bead of black silicone around the surface that mounts to the chassis
9) press in new tail light
10) reattach harness
11) Replace nuts and tighten while simultaneously pressing the new taillight in to seat it.
12) continue step 11 until fully seated.
13) repeat steps 1-4 in reverse order to finish.

All OEM lights are a DIRECT swap. Just keep the harness that comes with the bulb on that specific bulb. Switching them is pointless and irrelevant. All you need to do is plug them in, and presto, they work.