How Do You Change a Brake Light?

How Do You Change a Brake Light On A Toyota? Experts Answer

By changing your brake light on a Toyota, you can save yourself a lot of money. It’s important to change your brake light as soon as possible to avoid tickets or dangerous driving situations. Toyota of Clermont experts are here to give you the best tips on how to change a brake light on a Toyota.

What are your brake lights?

These lights on your Clermont Toyota are located in the rear of your car. The brake lights, also known as the tail lights, turn on when you press your brakes. These lights shine red at night and are called your brake lights for a reason as they alert the car behind you to slow down their vehicle.

How to change a brake light yourself

Let’s dive into everything you need to know about how to replace a brake light on your Clermont Toyota.

The tools you need to replace your Toyota brake light:

• Owner’s manual
• Correct bulb for your model

The Step by Step process to changing your brake light

1. Buy the bulb for your car model

You can check your Toyota’s owner’s manual to ensure you are picking the right bulb when you go to check out. If you need a new bulb, you can buy one from our parts store to get the right bulb quickly.

2. Go to your trunk area and pull back the cover and expose the brake light

In every Toyota model, the back cover will look slightly different. It will be located in your trunk area and will be towards the corners with a square cover area. You will need to remove the cover once you find it to access the Toyota brake light bulb socket.

3. Find the brake light

When you find access to the Toyota brake light bulb socket the next step is to look for the upper tan-colored socket. Once you find that, that is going to be your brake light.

4. Once you find the brake light, go ahead and twist it 1/4 counterclockwise on the base to remove the old bulb

You want to make sure that once you grab the socket you only turn it ¼ counterclockwise. Then, pull it out of the tail light. After you remove the old bulb, you are ready to install the new bulb.

5. Go ahead and install the new bulb and insert the socket back into the tail light by turning the new bulb ¼ clockwise

When you install the new bulb make sure that when you insert the new bulb turn it ¼ clockwise into the socket. Then, test the bulb to make sure it’s working!

6. Put the square cover area back and enjoy!

Once you test the bulb and it works, you can now put the square cover area and enjoy the good fruits of your labor.

Call Toyota of Clermont with all of your car brake light questions

Have questions? Need brake service or repairs? Toyota of Clermont is here to help. Call our Clermont auto service center at 352-404-7000 or stop by and see us at 16851 State Road 50, just west of the Florida Turnpike.