Trunk liner

[Ben's LS]

How do you get the pins out that hold the trunk liner in? I need to get to the 3rd brake light from inside the trunk but idk how to get these pins out i'm afraid i might break them. here's two pictures

 

[BlackLS06]

Good luck.

They are very hard to pull out....i jacked my hands up pretty bad but got them out.

They are push pins with fins that go downwards.

Use a flathead scredriver and pull on the liner a bit.

 

[joegr]

They make a tool just for this. It's a wide piece of metal with a slot at the end.
I've done okay using needle nose pliers to pull or pry them out. Any that are damaged are easy to replace. The auto stores sell various sizes (as well as the removal tool), and Home Depot/Lowes also see the plastic pins.

 

[pektel]

+1 on needle nose pliers. That's what I've used, but I've torn up quite a few of those pins by doing that too.

 

[Alax7]

I hate those. I took them off with pliers too and replaced with the pins that have a hole and plastic screws in it for easy removal

 

[pektel]

I'm gonna be pulling a bunch more after work, to start deadening the trunk.

 

[pektel]

How do you get to the 3rd brake light from the trunk?

 

[1LoudLS]

How do you get to the 3rd brake light from the trunk?

yea its been awhile since ive had to replace a 1st gen 3rd brake light, but i though that i did it from the back seat.

 

[dNyce LS]

it is from inside the car

just move the cover and it sits right there

 

[Ben's LS]

i need to get the entire light out so i can glue the rubber gasket around the light back into place. ive tried to get the light out just from the back seat but it didnt work out too well

 

[pektel]

I pulled the cover off about a week ago because it was rattling. Took about 30 seconds. I just gave it a squeeze and pulled. That's what she said. It came out pretty easy.

 

[Pinknuts]

This is what you need to take off those pesky retainers.

This is probably the best $9.99 I spent when I was doing my complete interior swap on my LS.

BUT... I do remember while doing the swap that the 3rd brake light cover just squeezes together and slides off away from the window. That's the easy part. Now the bottom housing portion is harder to remove. You have to take out the rear dash cover. That's the FUN part

 

[manoli]

^^^very use-full tool.

 

[Andrizzle]

I beat the fuk out of those things in my trunk. But I manage to cram them back in.

 

[n8bachelor]

These work pretty well also:

 

[1LoudLS]

the old panel popper is one of the more handy tools to have, makes pulling off anything with snaps or pins. if i was only allowed to have three tools to install anything, it would definitely one of them (the other two would probably be a good set of crimpers, and an impact driver) proabably the best $10 you can spend

 

[Ben's LS]

i will have to go get a tool i tried with my hands and they got pretty jacked up