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If you're quick with soldering, this shouldn't take more than about 10 minutes a side (you can use quick connectors instead, but that might take longer). This assumes there is a wire coming from your new socket. If not, solder one on to it (about 8 or so inches long).

1. Find a couple of tail-light sockets. I found mine on eBay ($11.99 + $5 shipping).

2. Remove tail-light assemblies from inside the trunk (two tabs that twist to release each assembly).

3. Unplug the plugs (two plugs on driver's side, one on passenger side). Everything else is the same on both sides.

4. Remove screw from outlet under big plug, remove plug.

5. Pop off the metal strip with all the sockets in it (three squeeze-type clips, and yes, they are most likely brittle).

6. From the back side, push the extra socket into the empty hole at the end of the strip (toward the middle of the car). There's a tab on the socket that fits in a long and skinny rectangular hole in the strip.

7. Route the wire (careful to keep it away from where the strip snaps back onto the plastic housing) along the back, through to front to existing brake light (the one with the reflector behind it).

8. Solder new wire to existing brake-light connection on front (or use quick connector, making sure the connector won't be in the way when it's reassembled.

9. Snap the metal strip back into the black plastic piece.

10. Reattach the plugs (don't forget the screw on the big plugs).

11. Install a new bulb.

12. Install whole assembly back into trunk.

13. Have someone push on your brake pedal while you stand behind the car so you can see the formerly dead red sections closest to your license plate light up.

(Instructions are more detailed than photo, so these numbers do not correspond to numbers on photo, which is the driver's side assembly.)