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Old 02-02-2013, 11:38 AM
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The 2 screws on my tail light lens are plastic with no slots to put a screw driver in. How do I remove a 03 tail light lens thx
Old 02-02-2013, 11:41 AM
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After further review I removed the plastic caps. Duh! Thx anyway.
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Originally Posted by Ekul61
The 2 screws on my tail light lens are plastic with no slots to put a screw driver in. How do I remove a 03 tail light lens thx

I think you need to take a closer look.
Those lens are not going to be held in place w/out screws.
If you can't see the screw heads then there must be a plastic or rubber insert covering the heads of the screws.

Also there might be a darkened lens cover, just laying over the whole red lenses.

In either case, you should be able to remove either/or, in order to get to the lens screws.
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My car had a cheezy home made flush mount kit installed. Essentially plastic spacers cut with a hacksaw. So the screws were wrong once removed.
Went to the HW store and bought some nice phillips stainless replacements. Also made some gaskets/seals out of weather strip from the same store. Easy afternoon project.

When I had all the lights out, backup and tails, I buffed and waxed the entire rear section. The yellow really gets stained.

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