How to Replace Taillight and Bulb 2003-10 Saab 9-3
Created on: 2012-05-29
This video will show how to replace the tail light bulbs and how to replace the tail light housing if it is cloudy, cracked, or broken
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step 1 :Servicing the Tail Light Bulbs
- Pry off the tail light panel clip with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pull off the tail light panel
- Pull the bulb panel out of the taillight
- Twist the bulbs out of the bulb panel
- Twist the new bulbs into the panel
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step 2 :Removing the Tail Light
- Remove the three 10mm nuts from the tail light
- Pull out the tail light
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step 3 :Installing the Tail Light
- Push the tail light into place
- Fasten the three 10mm nuts onto the tail light
- Push in the bulb panel
- Push on the taillight panel
- Push the clip into the tail light panel
Tools needed
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Flat Blade Screwdriver
10mm Wrench
10mm Socket
Ratchet
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In this video, we show you how to service the taillights, both if you're just looking to change a bulb or if you need to replace one with a new one from 1AAuto. If you're just looking to replace a bulb, you'll just need probably a small flat blade screwdriver. If you're looking to replace the whole assembly, you'll need the small flat blade screwdriver plus a 10 millimeter wrench or socket and ratchet.
Servicing the taillights in this vehicle's pretty easy. On this side, you just grab hold of this little panel and it pulls down. On this side, it does have a clip. Use a small screwdriver or something. This one's actually kind of broken. Push in the middle and then pull this clip off. Then you pull this down and out.
Now, just to service the bulbs themselves, there's a little tab here that you push up on, and this bulb panel comes right out. All you do is push in, turn it counterclockwise, pull out, and the bulbs come out. Just make sure you do replace them with the single contact bulbs. They're all the same. This one is colored orange since it's the signal light.
If you're looking to replace the whole assembly, then there are three 10 millimeter nuts: one here, one over there, and then one up there. I'll fast forward here as I remove those three nuts. They generally are pretty easy, with either a wrench or a socket and ratchet. Again, they're 10 millimeter. Once you get them started, they pretty much come off right just with your hands.
To reinstall the light is just a reverse of the procedure. Put it in place. Go back through, make sure that the studs are going in the right spot. Thread my 10 millimeter nuts on. Fast-forward it as we put those nuts on and then tighten them up. You want to tighten them up firm but not too tight. You don't want to risk breaking any of the studs on the taillight. Now just take your bulb plate, and put it right back in. Just make sure it's snapped in place. Then put this right back up in place and pinch everything and line it up. If this clip . if yours isn't broken, you want to push the clip back up through so the middle is sticking up, and then you put the clip in. Then you would push that center part flush to lock it.
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