Tail lights?
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Burning Brakes
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From: Lake Orion Michigan
OK....my wife was able to get the light unpluged but how are you supose to get the bulb out of the socket with one hand? I want to meet the engineer who did this so I can take him out and introduce him to a PARKING BLOCK!!!!!
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He got promoted from exterior design to interior after his superior tail light work on the early C4.
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Another option is to buy some burgers, brats, a few 12 packs and invite some local Corvette people over.
Last edited by Blue 92; Jul 13, 2009 at 08:58 PM.
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Burning Brakes
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Around here the Jiffy Lube places offer to change bulbs @ $4.95 each. I'd love to see the look if an early C4 went in to have all four tail lights and the third brake light done.
Another option is to buy some burgers, brats, a few 12 packs and invite some local Corvette people over.
Another option is to buy some burgers, brats, a few 12 packs and invite some local Corvette people over.
Brats and beers for ya.
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What we ended up doing was pulling the back wheel off, then taking off the inner wheel well cover and then reaching up that way. It's been a few years, but it seems like it made it much easier to do. Worth a shot anyways!!
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Make sure you put in long life bulbs.
I reach in through the license plate hole and remove the inner taillight lenses. Then I reach in through the inner taillight lense hole to replace the outer bulbs and I also replace the inner bulbs that that time. Then hook them back up and bolt the inner tail lights back up.
That is alot easier than going in from the bottom. You just have to be careful and not scratch the paint. I did go ahead and clean out all the yellow paste where the bulb screws into and covered the bulb base with bulb grease. As when I was pulling the bulbs, a few of the glass from the bulbs pulled out leaving the base in the socket.
One thing I hate is getting the fuse cover back on my 89. Mine didn't have a ****, so I got a ****. And now it takes me 20 minutes to get the cover on. It makes it not worth it to have a **** as the cover is easier to get off without a ****, than it is to get it on with a ****.
I reach in through the license plate hole and remove the inner taillight lenses. Then I reach in through the inner taillight lense hole to replace the outer bulbs and I also replace the inner bulbs that that time. Then hook them back up and bolt the inner tail lights back up.
That is alot easier than going in from the bottom. You just have to be careful and not scratch the paint. I did go ahead and clean out all the yellow paste where the bulb screws into and covered the bulb base with bulb grease. As when I was pulling the bulbs, a few of the glass from the bulbs pulled out leaving the base in the socket.
One thing I hate is getting the fuse cover back on my 89. Mine didn't have a ****, so I got a ****. And now it takes me 20 minutes to get the cover on. It makes it not worth it to have a **** as the cover is easier to get off without a ****, than it is to get it on with a ****.
Burning Brakes
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Do you have a 12 year old, skinny neighbor kid? Get him to reach up through the license plate "hole" to change the bulb for a ride to the ice cream shop... That worked for me when I needed to change one of my bulbs.
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I did put some gloves on when I replaced the bulbs in the dash, I really didn't want to tear into the dash any sooner than I would have to.
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Burning Brakes
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Around here the Jiffy Lube places offer to change bulbs @ $4.95 each. I'd love to see the look if an early C4 went in to have all four tail lights and the third brake light done.
Another option is to buy some burgers, brats, a few 12 packs and invite some local Corvette people over.
Another option is to buy some burgers, brats, a few 12 packs and invite some local Corvette people over.
So I will be taking it there.
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Hate to say it, but if you really want to take it somewhere, maybe you should take it to a dealer... You will more than likely get raped, but at least it will be done. Price all 4 while you're at it. If it's the same labor charge, may as well get them all done at the same time