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How to Replace Tail Light 2001-2005 Honda Civic
How to Replace Tail Light 2003-05 Honda Civic
How to Replace Tail Light 2001-05 Honda Civic
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Tools used
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
8mm Socket
10mm Socket
Ratchet
Needle nose pliers
Trim Tool Set
Pick
Tools used
Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
8mm Socket
10mm Socket
Ratchet
1. Changing the Taillight Bulbs
Turn the clip and pull it out.
Pull back the insulation.
Twist the sockets counterclockwise to remove.
Pull the bulb straight out.
Push a new one into place.
Twist the socket back into place.
2. Removing the Rear Bumper Cover
Remove the 10mm bolts and Phillips screws from the back of the wheel wells.
Pry of the covers at the top of the rear bumper and remove the 10mm bolts behind them.
Pry out the clips under the bumper.
Pull the bumper out on each side.
3. Removing the Taillight Assembly
Remove the two 8mm bolts under the taillight.
Remove the three 8mm bolts from the back of the taillight.
Twist out the sockets.
Remove the Phillips screw and remove the bracket.
4. Replacing the Taillight Assembly
Remove the Phillips screw from the new taillight assembly.
Attach the bracket to the new taillight and replace the Phillips screw.
Line up the taillight and push it into place.
Replace the 8mm bolts.
Twist the sockets into place.
Replace the insulation.
5. Replacing the Rear Bumper Cover
Line up the bumper cover and push it into place.
Replace the 10mm bolts at the top of the bumper cover. Replace the bolt covers.
Replace the clips under the bumper cover.
Replace the Phillips screws and 10mm bolts in the wheel wells.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com, thanks.
In this video we're going to show you how to service taillights on this 2003 Honda Civic. The taillights for the 2001-2005 are basically the same. They did change some color of the lenses, but the basic procedures are the same. We're going to show you both if you just need to change the bulbs or if you need to change the whole assembly, if you've had a broken one or something like that. Tools you'll need for the bulbs, all you're going to need is a flat blade screwdriver. If you need to replace an entire tail light assembly, you will have to remove the rear bumper cover, which is not that big of a deal. In that case, you'll need the flat blade screwdriver, the Phillip's screwdriver, 8 and 10 mm sockets with a ratchet and extension.
To access your outer taillight, come in the trunk here, there's a little clip here. Use a flat blade screwdriver and you basically just twist out the middle. The middle pulls out and then you can pull the clip out with the trim and pull this trim down, and if you're just looking to replace bulbs, go right in here, twist counter clockwise, come out, the bulbs just pull right straight out of the sockets. Replace them and the same thing up here.
There're a few fasteners on each side. On each side you will see an 8 mm bolt, right up under there. You'll see a Phillip's screw right there and then open up your trunk and there are a couple of little panels here, pry out, and there's a 10 mm bolt right back there and then underneath there are a few clips and what you do with these is pry the middle out. You can see they're usually a little sandy. You have to work at them a little bit.
Now pull the camera back and fast forward as I just work at getting those two bottom clips out. You basically just need to pull them down between about an 1/8 and a 1/4 of an inch and then pull on the whole clip and they come out. We'll keep up the fast pace here as we remove the fasteners from each side. Again, it's an 8 mm bolt, a Phillip's screw, and a 10 mm bolt. Both clips are out, pull firmly out on each side, and the bumper cover comes right off. Once you have your bumper cover off, there are two bolts you undo here, plus a Phillip's screw up there and then inside here and then here, there are the three 8 mm bolts there, there and there, we'll be removing the bulbs.
Coat the fasteners underneath the tail light with some penetrating oil to try to loosen them up. I'm going to fast forward here as I remove those two 10 mm nuts and they are probably going to, on this vehicle it's a north-east vehicle, so they do both break. Not the worst thing in the world. The screw underneath the taillight actually still holds the bracket in place. Under the light is a Phillip's screw here. It's usually pretty difficult to get off. Remove it, now remove this bracket. New light from 1A Auto comes with a new screw, so take that off and then put the bracket in place. I'm going to speed through here. I just put the tail light back in place and put the three 8 mm nuts back on the inside of the trunk and tightened them up and put the bulbs and harnesses back into place and put the trim back in place as well. Fast forward here and put those 10 mm bolts back in place. Fast forward here as I put the two clips in the bottom, just kind of pull the centers out, push the clips in, and then push the centers in to lock and then reinstall the little covers in the back trunk area as well as the 8 mm and Phillip's screws that hold the cover in the wheel well area. There's the tail light, good as new.
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Tools used
Flat Blade Screwdriver
8mm Socket
Ratchet
Socket Extensions
1. Servicing the Bulbs
Remove the trim fastener with a flat blade screwdriver
Twist the bulb socket counterclockwise out of the light
Pull the bulb off of the socket
Push on the new bulb
Twist the bulb clockwise into the light
2. Removing the Tail Light
Remove the four 8mm nuts from the tail light
Pull the tail light out of the vehicle
3. Installing the Tail Light
Insert the light into place
Tighten the 8mm nuts to the tail light
Press the tab on the old wiring harnesses and disconnect from their socket
Press the socket into its new wiring harness
Tighten the trim fastener with a flat blade screwdriver
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks.
Today, we're going to show you how to replace your tail lights. The car we have here is a 2003 Honda Civic. It's a two-door. The tail lights are the same for 2001 to 2005. We've got our performance style, which has some LEDs on it. We also sell the regular replacement tail lights at 1A Auto. The replacement process, other than a couple of the connectors on the back, is the same for either the OE style or the performance style.
We'll get started just by opening up the trunk. There's going to be a little trim plug of some type here. It may be just a straight pullout that you pry out with a screwdriver. This style you twist out the center and then pull it out. Pull this trim back.
If you just want to replace your bulbs each one of these just twists counterclockwise and pulls out, these small bulbs. You would just pull out and push back in as well as to remove the tail light you want to remove all of these. You just twist them all counterclockwise. The sockets come out. Some come out a little easier. This one comes out. They all just pull right out and you'll get your new bulb and push it in.
If you're looking to remove the entire taillight assembly, remove these four nuts. Once those 8 millimeter nuts are off, then just pull the tail light out. Take a second and clean out the tail light area.
Reinstall your new light. There are tabs on here. You're just going to line those up with the holes in the body as well as the mounting studs themselves. Reinstall the 8 millimeter nuts and tighten them up. On these ones we found we needed an extended socket. When you tighten them up just get them nice and firm. You don't want to overtighten them.
Our new light plugs in just a little bit different. This you can disconnect by pushing on the tab. This black connector goes up to the top here. Take the bulb out of this connector and then it just plugs right into the light here. Your side marker is actually now part of the LED, so you can just take that bulb out. This one that just connects into its regular spot. It's a lot easier just to see it from the outside, push it in, and turn it to lock. There's lights, brake lights, turn signal, backup light, put your trim panel back together, pull it into place and put the clip back in place.
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