How to remove the high level brake light?

[cmdrfire]

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=121067.0

20 minutes and around £35 should see you right 

Chyars, reckon I'll have a go at this next week.

[Saint Steve]

My turn to bash mine   ....................................................  . Water inside it.  

Half my LED's arent working, so drill and chisel is coming out monday morning

[cmdrfire]

Oh, I meant to say I did this, was easy enough, reckon it only took about half an hour.


There was like a layer of algae/slime inside mine 

[Weston]

It's simple if you have the bottle to break the old one...

[big al]

II'm gutted. Need to replace mine but only as the plastic is cracked. No damaged LEDs or anything, njust one annoying little crack ...

[RedRobin]

II'm gutted. Need to replace mine but only as the plastic is cracked. No damaged LEDs or anything, njust one annoying little crack ...

....Some baddies shooting at ya?  Or perhaps the police as you made your getaway 

It must have been a stone flicked up somehow 

[LouCyffer]

My turn to bash mine   ....................................................  . Water inside it.  

Half my LED's arent working, so drill and chisel is coming out monday morning

Did a replacement on a friend's R32, with this problem. Mask off the spoiler, dremel the lens to break it, remove old light, fit new one, remove tape. The wires are easily accesible once the old light is broken & hanging out. It just feels a bit brutal to butcher it
For the love of pete, don't let the dealer remove the spoiler as they normally 'cheese wire' it off. Naturally this means a repaint.

[stealthwolf]

Just out of curiosty, does the new brake light have anything different to prevent water ingress?

[Weston]

Just out of curiosty, does the new brake light have anything different to prevent water ingress?

Not from what I saw 

[ub7rm]

Just the same as the old one as far as I could see as well.  Though to be honest it was difficult to see how the water could have gotten in anyway.  The seal around the lens and the rest of the body cant be very good.

Over a year and a half and no issues with the bodge job so far though 

[danishmkvgti]

¨How do you fix the new one???  Glue?    if so to what parts of the brake light???

[Weston]

¨How do you fix the new one???  Glue?    if so to what parts of the brake light???

It just clips in. Mine snapped out of my hand while I lined it up. Very easy.

[danishmkvgti]

¨How do you fix the new one???  Glue?    if so to what parts of the brake light???

It just clips in. Mine snapped out of my hand while I lined it up. Very easy.

So after removing the brakelight itself, the screws and the counterpart from old brakelight are losened and screws fitted to new brakelight counterparts you just push it in??   

[Weston]

¨How do you fix the new one???  Glue?    if so to what parts of the brake light???

It just clips in. Mine snapped out of my hand while I lined it up. Very easy.

So after removing the brakelight itself, the screws and the counterpart from old brakelight are losened and screws fitted to new brakelight counterparts you just push it in??   

Can't remember 100% but I think the screws remain on the car and just fit into the holes on the new light. In effect it's not screwed on once replaced but it clips in place in such a way that it won't be falling out.

[ub7rm]

^^ When you rip the old light out, you leave in place the screws and the metal 'tube' (great technical description  )  that they screwed into in the old light.  The screws can then be lifted out of the groove they sit in and can be discarded.  Its difficult to explain but its pretty obvious when you do it.



In this photo you can see the metal tube that the screw goes into and used to be embedded in the old light and the groove that you lift it out from.


The replacement light snaps in very securely.