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Originally Posted by Fiyero88

The two end posts that go into the orange Christmas tree like Retainer, are attached to the body of the car, when I put the new taillights in they go on fine except I do see a gap between the threaded screw and the orange Christmas tree cone retainers. Not sure if they need to be pulled out of the body of the car and inserted to the threaded bolt of the new oem lights or not.

Originally Posted by KyBoy

Those aren't cheap tails, I couldn't really see the quality being that bad.

Been a long time since I installed my OEM black tails, but I thought there were only one orange retainer per post.

There are two (maybe three?) on each side, and the orange part is supposed to remain on the body indeed. The only thing I can think of is still that the metal pegs didn't properly go all the way into these orange retainers, it did happen to me once when trying to install the OEM dark taillights, and a little wiggling solved it. The service manual isn't too descriptive (see below), and it's been a while for me, too

This gap is huge, it would be an obvious defect that any QA would pick up immediately.