1997 E300

Hello all,

Bulbs over the rear tag are dead. I remove the cover with three phillips, but the lenses won't pop out for me to get at the bulbs. I don't want to break them, can anyone offer advice for removal?

Thanks in advance.

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83 300TD (need rear wiper assembly dead or alive)
84 300SD Daily driver
85 300TD almost 400k miles and driven daily.
98 E300D *sold
86 300SDL *sold and made flawless 10 hour journey to new home.

It's a poor design. The plastic pieces have two ears, and the ears are suppose to compress as you try to pull it out, but I found the ears on mine were tweaked enough that they would bend the wrong way and break when force is applied. I was able to use a Harbor Freight bent dental pick type tool to pursuade one of the ears to pull in enough to pop that side out.

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Mark in MA
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Remove the trunk lid liner and get at them from the inside.

Thank Mark.

Matt, That is what I was afraid of, the liner seem to be help up under the lid latch as well. I just figured that complete dis-assembly of the trunk lid was not the best way to go.

Perhaps this is another moment in engineering brilliance where it "seemed like a good idea at the time".

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83 300TD (need rear wiper assembly dead or alive)
84 300SD Daily driver
85 300TD almost 400k miles and driven daily.
98 E300D *sold
86 300SDL *sold and made flawless 10 hour journey to new home.

That trunk liner comes out in ten minutes, tops.