Well, the boss has me running his personal errands again

He has a 2004 Audi A4 (I have the VIN number too), and the driver side brake light is out.  He's asked me to "take care of it". (he specified that he wants to replace it himself)

I've already called the dealer and ascertained that it is possible to replace it yourself, and I've found the exact part, but I've been pouring through links trying to find instructions on how to do it, and I've come up empty-handed so far.  Now I have REAL work to do (two new computers that need to be imaged by days end) and I figured I'd ask people at the place I know best

I'm not necissarily looking for step-by-step instructions to be posted by you guys (although if you happen to know the exact procedures for replacing an A4 tail light, I'm all ears), but possibly a link to a website that could help (I do need step-by-step stuff, or something close to it)-I've been to more auto websites in the last hour than I've ever been to before in my entire life. Please help

Quick replies appreciated, I've been sitting on this since Friday

if its like every other one ive done then-
pop the boot
prise off the plastic cover on the rear of the tail lights
find the bulb, twist it out and replace! 

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Right, we've gotten that far

But he still wants specific directions-if not for the A4, then for ANY similar sedan.  Please, he'll physically kick my ass if I don't have something for him by tomorrow... I had today off.

Eno-that looks like a good resource, but he's cheap, and he's not going to order anything if he thinks he can find stuff like that for free, which he does.

these are the two best audi forums that i know of:

http://audiforums.com/
http://www.audiworld.com/forum/

you might want to try vw vortex too

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Just the bulb-I'm pretty sure that I can buy just the bulb, although so far all I've been able to find online is the full light assembly.

Thanks a lot for the links Bman, I'll take a look

Wow....

LOL, I laughed the other day, then I went to take the bad one out of my 1965 comet and it's actually a whole sealed bea, type setup, which the local auto parts store did not have, so I get to look around for a replacement first....

lol, sorry no, this is an approximate 3.5 by 5-6 inch or so rectangular one. All red.

I'm sure that someone around here will have one, but there in small town america it is harder to find an auto parts store, let alone one that has the parts you need for classic cars..

I'm going to pull out my 65 master parts list and it will tell me the correct part number and my shop manual will give me the rest of the details in case the place I get my parts from doesn't have a clue as to what I'm looking for.

I was considering taking the light out amd bringing it home with me, but then I would have had to fabricate a piece to fill the hole in the mean-time..

Mainly it just surprised me, I figured it would be a standard bulb replace it and get on with life..

lol, it never seems to work out that way does it?