How to Replace Inner Tail Light Housing 2006-11 Toyota Camry
Created on: 2017-10-06
How to install, repair, fix, change or replace a broken, damaged, burned out, cracked, faded, cloudy or chipped inner tail light / brake light on 09 Toyota Camry.
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step 1 :Servicing the Bulbs
- Open the trunk
- Remove the push clips on the trim near the tail light
- Pull back the trim
- Turn the sockets counterclockwise
- Remove the sockets
- Pull the bulb off
- Press the bulb on
- Turn the socket clockwise
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step 2 :Removing the Tail Light Housing
- Remove the push clips from the trim
- Remove the trim
- Disconnect the wiring harness
- Remove the three 10mm bolts from the tail light
- Turn the sockets counterclockwise
- Remove the sockets
- Pop out the tail light
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step 3 :Installing the Tail Light Housing
- Insert the tail light into place
- Tighten the three 10mm bolts
- Turn the socket clockwise
- Connect the wiring harness
- Press on the clips to the trim
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
10mm Socket
Door Panel Removal Tool
Ratchet
Hi, I’m Mike from 1A Auto. We’ve been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
Change a reverse light bulb or a marker light bulb. Open the trunk. There is a carpeted trim panel. It's got push clips. We're going to use our push clip removal tool. You can just see where the bulbs are behind here, but it's going to be easier to remove these two clips and fold it down. So I'm going to pop them out. Put them down here so I don't lose them. Fold this back.
See the back of the two light bulb sockets here. This one is the lower one, that's the marker bulb. I'm going to turn it counterclockwise. It's a little tight to get it out. Pull it right out. It's a 194 bulb. To replace it, you just pull it out and put a new one back in. Reinstall it. Line it up with the holes and then we'll turn it clockwise to lock it in. The reverse light bulb is this top one. Turn this one clockwise to loosen it. Pull it down. This is a 921. To change it, you pull it out and then insert the new one. Same thing to the back of the light housing. Turn it counterclockwise, it locks in. And those bulbs are replaced.
To remove this carpeted shield on the inside of the trunk lid, there are 13 push clips all over here. Going to remove these. Going to continue to remove these here using the trim clip tool. Work them under there and pull them right out. I'm going to put them in the trunk so I don't lose them. Pop out the last clip. This carpet is now loose. Going to slide it off. Slide the emergency handle through it. I'm going to just put it in the trunk so it doesn't get damaged.
To remove this whole assembly, unplug it here. Push the lock in. There's plastic tabs that are pushed in up here. Just push them in and pull it down. Push the outside in and pull it down. Work the tabs out there. Push this in. Lock it. Remove this three 10 millimeter nuts that are holding this lamp in. There's two on the outside here. Put those down here so I don't lose them. And remove this last one on the inside. There's a plastic stud that this pushes into. We're going to use our plastic prying tools, get from 1AAuto.com, we'll put them under here. Help pry up. Pop it right out.
So this little plastic stud and actually the grommet part is probably supposed to stay in the body of the car, but that's okay, it doesn't look broken. That's the inner tail light assembly. Reinstall this. We're going to feed the harness through the opening. We'll line up that white grommet piece to this hole here. Line up the stud holes over here. Give it a firm push so it's initially just clipped in there on the stud. I'm going to reinstall the 10 millimeter nuts. These are just little plastic caps over these metal nuts and of course, these studs are coming out of plastic in the inner tail lamp assembly. You don't have to go super tight with them. Just snug them up.
Don't forget the nut that goes in the inner one. Finally, reattach the harness. Back end of the body. Reinstall the carpeted cover. It goes on the inside of the rear trunk lid. Push it up and over and just hold it in place. It's pretty light. You can hold it with one hand. Get one of these push clips caught. Get another one caught over here. And get one of the bottom ones caught. Make sure this middle one's good.
