How do you remove the rear brake-turn light housing? I removed the 2 screws from the truck and it still wont come loose.

 

Thats all that there is, you just have to carefully wobble it out now because its held on a clip type of thing, and be careful not to drop it or when it yanks out all of a sudden to let it go becasue i did and scratched the little cover thing on the light! lol but ya thats about it, good luck

Dan

 

thanks for the info. there was obviously a fittament issue with mine. Took a hammer to get them out. Holes dont line up correctly. I guess that is what I get for getting a car that was produced first in the new design. Manuf date is 2-03.

 

sry for going off topic, but i dont have enough posts on the forum yet to start up a new thread. i have a 2005 maxima and i wanted to change the map lights and the rear map light (if thats what its called) to leds. i found out that the map lights in the front are festoon shaped but i dont have my car with me right now to measure out and see how big of a led i can fit in there. Does anyone know the dimensions of what size led i can get in there, for the front and rear map lights.

thanks

 

OK newbs here we go!!!
Here's the how to I wrote up on changing the tails to LED's (but it shows how to remove them as well)
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=455704

As for the map lights you need the 39-44 mm length. They should both work:
Here's a link as well:
http://autolumination.com/festoon.htm

 

ya i was checking that site out. i was gunna go with the 31 mm ones until ur post helped me out. i was thinking about just ordering them right now, are u sure that the 39-44 is the right size to put in? because i saw on this site http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProd...RG-Results.htm
"Map light
DE3021

Dome light
DE3175 "

and those bulb sizes only are for the 31 mm ones. anyone gunna be able to bust out a ruler on them map lights for me? lol


and the frotn and rear map lights are both the same size bulbs right?

 

Order them all, Christmas is coming...

 

seriously, itll prob be easier. ima just wait for my max to come back and then meausre it then

 

OK, maybe I'm the newb. Too lazy to go down and check...I wouldn't want you to order the wrong ones!!
(by the way what's up with the 6thgen site??)

 

I guess Eddy didn't pay...

 

These are the leds I replace my dome bulbs with; LINK. Not sure if that helps you out any, but they were a tight fit and I'm almost sure they are 31mm (as per http://autolumination.com/festoon.htm) Check them out, they tell you which bulbs you can swap for larger sizes, looks like your larger ones will not fit.

 

alright thats what i was thinking. do u kno how wide of a bulb u can fit in the 2005 maxima as well? if anyone could be kind enough to meausre it out or look at the previous bulbs they put in. i was thinking of going 31x19mm wide? will that fit?

and finally, are the rear overhead lights the same exact bulb as the front map lights?