****ing taillight just fell out, this is ridiculous...


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Did you ever get a service in the past that required taillight and bumper removal?

 

No, 2 years since last bumper off service. I'm guessing the plastic just broke like others.
In most cars you loss some and you win some but the only ****ing thing I'm missing in this one is the PDK crapping out...

 

I haven’t seen a light falling out. Speak quiet when you mention the PDK.

 

Yep. It's a thing. Mine didn't totally dump the whole way out a few months back, but caught about half way on the wiring because it was in town driving. If you have a good relationship with your dealer, you may be able to get "goodwill repair", as mine did. Short of that, Suncoast is the least expensive option. Easy to replace once its in hand.

 

Happened to me about 4 years ago. Caught it but a repair didn't look possible. Spent $450 for a new set of clears.....

 

Isn't this "a thing" that the 991.1s just do? I recall seeing a few threads on this over the years.

 

Mine both fell out on a track day sponsored by the dealer. The salesman who sold me the car was there. He made sure I got two new ones.

 

Very inadequate design on these tail lights and yes, this is common.
The 'fix' was some metal banding. My car has these updated ones but as I found out it still doesn't prevent the plastic screw bosses from breaking. May just keep the tail light from falling completely out. Last time I removed my tail lights I discovered one was flopping around on this metal band. I since JB Welded and Gorilla glued the crap out of both tail light brackets to maybe buy me some more time.

Don't necessarily like the look of the clears but thats probably the route I'll go since they are half the cost. I'm not too keen on paying big money on some salvage/used tail lights since those are most likely ready to break too.

 

Weird. Was a pain to get them off, not sure how it could just slipped out.

 

Weird and something I guess I'll need to keep an eye out for. I'd have thought the harness would provide some degree of retention to allow the light housing to flop about (+ scratch up the rear bumper) until the harness or connector gave way. Not saying it'd be enough to hear it flopping about but at least enough for someone to honk and/or flash their brights at you as some sort of indicator.

 

This is definitely a thing for early 991s. Plenty of old threads to search (including some posts by me).

 

Still don't understand. Didn't it had like 2 bolts on each of them, and 1 adjustment bolt? Did the taillight housing just break away from all the bolts? Or the bolt just pops off?

 

There is a bracket that attached to the taillight. The bolts go in the bracket. The issue is that the taillight pulls away from the bracket. This is why people put extra glue where the bracket attaches to the taillight. Has nothing to do with the bolts.

 

Oh Iccc...

Looks different than these