Piece of sh!t SN95 corner lights

Anyone have a solution for the black rubber trim on the 94-98 corner lights? I remember them being somewhat of a hassle before, but now I feel like it's gotten worse in the quality department.
My car sat for almost 10 years, so my corner lights had deteriorated. I picked up a new set, installed them, and the black trim popped off, on both lights. Reglued them both with some silicon, they both came off. Used some heavy duty flexible glue, and they popped off.
Bought a second set (different brand, slightly different design). These were falling off out of the box, but not nearly as bad. Repglued the areas with a liberal amount of the heavy duty glue, and they are holding up. However, now the black piece on these lights is too narrow, and it pops in the fender.

Anyone have a good brand in mind? I prefer the clear lights. I don't see any available from Depo. What do you guys have?

I don't have any input to your problem but you have me hoping I never need corner lights in the future lol.

I can totally sympathize with you here. I removed my OEM corners and replaced them with Eagle Eye brand since I will be on the track and don't want to ruin OEM lights. I went through a few orders to find decent rubber and even then it doesn't quite fit right. Went through the exact same situation with the NewEdge corner lights as well. Finally just bought OEM replacements and all was well.

I tried all sorts of adhesive without success. The one that seemed to last the longest for me was black RTV.

When in doubt, JB Weld? :shrug:

@98 svt
Steele Rubber? Never used them myself, but seen them on "My Classic Car" many times.

Take a pic of the trim & contact them? They have a chat option.

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Good luck.

No help here. But i've been through 3 sets of corner lights because of this issue...

nomoretickets said:

When in doubt, JB Weld? :shrug:

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The glue needs to be flexible.

98 svt said:

The glue needs to be flexible.

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Or does it? I've tried every kind of glue I can think of on these crappy ass axials and no luck. Just more muck to clean off. I've considered heating the plastic/rubber to just melting point and seeing if I could plastic weld them.

All that aside I have heard people say with sincerity that hot glue works the best. I'm not Martha freaking Stewart and I don't do crafts so I have never tried it.

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I have used this successfully on various similar jobs on my JD Tractor. I had a headlight lens fall out of a relatively new headlight assembly while mowing two summers ago. I cleaned the surfaces and used that adhesive on the perimeter. I then taped the lens in place on the body and ran a couple of compression straps over the area while the adhesive cured. I use this tractor for mowing and snow blowing (big temperature swing) and the lens has stayed in place.

Which brand did you buy? My SVE lights show up tomorrow so let's hope I dont have the same issues. The lights on the car when i bought it were a chinese junk 1 piece with no rubber

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My advice, use some 300ish grit sandpaper in the area you will be applying the glue to on the corner lights. Hopefully that will give the plastic surface enough of a key to hold on to the adhesive instead of just falling right off

I used super glue on my oem lights when the rubber came off of them, worked great. Still on there 3 years later

I used a dab of super glue on mine back when I had this issue


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I had a set of aftermarket corners and ended up putting back the stock ones. Same issues with the rubber peeling and the stock ones fit better of course.

Thanks for all the tips guys.
I'm debating just peeling them off and leaving them off. I don't drive it in the rain or anything.

98 svt said:

Thanks for all the tips guys.
I'm debating just peeling them off and leaving them off. I don't drive it in the rain or anything.

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Post it if you do. I want to see how it looks.

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