Rear tail light upgrade question.
01-10-12, 01:20 PM
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Rear tail light upgrade question.
So I ordered the complete tail light upgrade from Sewell a week ago, the newest style tail lights, and went to install them only to find out the inner tail light, the one that attaches to the trunk, does not fit.
Looking at it further the slot in the trunk and the back piece my existing tail lights have a kind of wishbone shape to them. The new lights are more egg shaped and are too wide and not correctly shaped to fit into the old slot.
Anyone else experienced this, do I need to modify the trunk in order to make this work? I plan to return them unless I am missing something.
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Looking at it further the slot in the trunk and the back piece my existing tail lights have a kind of wishbone shape to them. The new lights are more egg shaped and are too wide and not correctly shaped to fit into the old slot.
Anyone else experienced this, do I need to modify the trunk in order to make this work? I plan to return them unless I am missing something.
Thanks
01-10-12, 02:20 PM
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It is not. I talked with Sewell and they were no help.
From the limited amount of info I have found it will require modification of my trunk slots. I love these lights so I am going to do this tonight and will post pics of the differences and the install.
From the limited amount of info I have found it will require modification of my trunk slots. I love these lights so I am going to do this tonight and will post pics of the differences and the install.
01-10-12, 02:54 PM
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Relevant thread #1: https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...on-2006-a.html
Relevant thread #2: https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...on-2008-a.html
01-10-12, 08:43 PM
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For those who care here is what I did.
Here is what the space looks like prior
Then I took my dremel and a cutting wheel and cut off both "tabs" sticking out
Here is what it looks like after
I took brociouz's advise and painted the bare metal for two reasons. First to protect it, second to give it a smoother edge so it does not cut into the new housing.
And here they are installed
The people at Sewell had no idea you would need to modify your trunk lid in order to get these to fit and actually gave me some attitude about it because he believed I didn't know what I was talking about. Thank God for CL!
I recommended they put a note on their order page stating 06-08 IS models will need to modify their trunk lid in order to properly fit 09+ tail lights. I feel that is only fair to someone spending 1K on new headlights.
Here is what the space looks like prior
Then I took my dremel and a cutting wheel and cut off both "tabs" sticking out
Here is what it looks like after
I took brociouz's advise and painted the bare metal for two reasons. First to protect it, second to give it a smoother edge so it does not cut into the new housing.
And here they are installed
The people at Sewell had no idea you would need to modify your trunk lid in order to get these to fit and actually gave me some attitude about it because he believed I didn't know what I was talking about. Thank God for CL!
I recommended they put a note on their order page stating 06-08 IS models will need to modify their trunk lid in order to properly fit 09+ tail lights. I feel that is only fair to someone spending 1K on new headlights.
