How to: Hatch back clear tail lights

[MMamdouh]

The light assembly is in 3 pieces:
1) The black back piece that the lightblub sockets twist into.
2) A one-piece black edged plastic insert that has the yellow and red lenses built in. The reverse light is the same, but with only one clear lense in the black plastic surround.
3) The clear outter lense.

The change was easy and the lights can be returned to stock condition again; this is not a permanent change if you get tired of the clear lights.

1) Remove the tail light assembly from the car.

2) With a small (#0) Phillips (cross head) screw driver, remove the 2 small screws from the back of the lense assembly that hold the lense in place.

3) Use a heat gun to warm up the edges of the black housing.
*THIS TAKES TIME* Spend at least 10 to 15 minutes heating this up. If you do not make it warm enough, you can break off the clear plastic edges of the lense, as I did by finding out the hard way.

4) With a flat blade screwderiver, very carefully pry all around the edges between the clear lense and the black rear housing until the lense is seperated from the back. The black sealant will be gooey and stretch in lots of strings like bubblegum.

5) Lift out the black edged lense insert.

6) Press the lense back into the black housing. Make sure the black gooey sealent does not get on the sliver reflector inside the lense housing because it is not easy to remove and makes the sliver reflector look dull grey.

7) When the lense & housing are back together, put the small screws back in to hold the back & lense together.

Those steps were originally posted by Cliff (AKA TheGreatAndPowerfulOz)

MMamdouh