How do you replace the brake light bulb on a 2002 Isuzu axiom?

Answer 1

To replace the rear taillamp bulb in an 2002 Isuzu Axioum:

1. Open the rear tailgate.

2. Remove the two screws that hold the tail lense asembly in place.

3. Now there are two pins that hold the lamp in place you must use a screwdriver or other flat device and lightly pry the lense out to the right or left of the vehicle depending on which side your are working on. If you pull back it will not come out as you are putting pressure against the pins it must be pulled toward the side that the vehicle you are trying to remove the lense on.

example: changing the right lamp. {} denotes the lense and the diagram we are looking from the back of the vehicle

{}_____{} -->Pry this direction.

Good Luck I called three dealers and none knew how to do it. I finally figured it out with a flash light and looking in to see what was holding it.

You're making this way too complicated. All you have to do is take the screws out, hold onto the housing with one hand, stoop down a little and give the flat side of the housing - 90 degrees to where the screws were, a little bit of a bop straight toward the outside of the car with the bottom of your palm or side of your fist and the plastic clamps, in the light housing, pop off the posts(called pins above). It needs to be a firm little pop, not a Chuck Norris karate chop. The posts have a little lip on the end that the plastic clamps have to be forced over. If you pry on the light housing your going to scratch or break something. A little chop to the inside of the light housing pops the plastic clamps off the posts and the housing is free. After you get it off and look at it, it will all become clear to you. To put it back simply place the plastic clamps over the end of the posts while holding the housing in place, and, more gently than the removal, pop the clamps back over the posts with the side of your hand and put the screws back in.