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Old May 6, 2007 | 09:49 AM
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does This Lense Pop Out Or What? How Do You Get To It?
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does This Lense Pop Out Or What? How Do You Get To It?
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Nope, it is all one piece. To remove it you have to pop out the inner brake/turn lights and reach in through those holes. The best I remember there is two screws that go up into the fascia that holds it in there.

Is it not working? They rarely fail since they are LED lights. Might check wiring if your having a problem.
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Yes SIR, its not working. You mean take out one of the brake/turn signal lenses and housing then reach through the hole from the removal of that and then I can get to the bulb? If so, I'm on it.
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You mean take out one of the brake/turn signal lenses and housing then reach through the hole from the removal of that ...

yep. I think the attaching bolts/nuts are either 7 or 10mm ???

and then I can get to the bulb? If so, I'm on it.
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it's one complete sealed unit; the LED (bulbs) are not replaceable. And like the previous poster mentioned, it's very unusual where the individual LED's would all go bad at the same time.
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Yes SIR, its not working. You mean take out one of the brake/turn signal lenses and housing then reach through the hole from the removal of that and then I can get to the bulb? If so, I'm on it.
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Yep, you got it. reach through the brake/turn lamp holes like Mike said.

Also like Mike said, there is no bulbs in that unit, they use a bunch of small LEDs, and the unit is sealed. Normally LEDs just don't go bad, but anything can happen. Normally for an LED to go bad it has to be damaged, over volt, or something like that. Odds is a bad connection, bad plug, loose plug or something other than the light itself is bad. Best way to check would be with a test light. Simply unplug the light and stick the test light in the plug, hit the brake and see if it is getting any voltage.

If your light happens to be bad I would be interested in the old one. I'm looking to try some mods to the lens and would hate to ruin a good one.
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