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OK. I did not do a fancy switch like the original post, but wanted to share my experience.

First off EVO-R shipped super fast upon payment! Thanks!

So in my 2011, I had the same issue with the one nut on the housing. What the heck! So I tried a dremel to make a notch with no luck. Checked back here and before trying to cut it off, I put a 10mm socket attachement on the drill and just smoked that sucker out. So that took longer than I expected, but houseing and fake light off.

After getting all of the wiring run into the back of the car, it was time to make my connections. Huge lesson learned here and HUGE thanks to Professor Dave for the tip. When making my connections, I was not getting contact on the small wires in the taillight harness. No matter how hard I squeezed that sucker it would not work. So I wrapped the wire a couple of times around with electric tape to make it sit in the connector a bit better, and bingo connections made and light working.

I did run into a wiring issue along the way. I wanted to have the new fog light blink in reverse and be steady on when the parking tail lights were on. I surfed all of the posts and came up with Green wire = tail light and Orange = reverse. The orange was correct, and the light blinked when I put the car in reverse. The green wire was the brake (it DID say that green was the brake in the instructions that came with the light). The instructions showed the parking lights to be the red wire and that was correct as well, so I must have read a post incorrectly.

Everything else was easy. For someone who has never done stuff like this, I have to say I was surprised at how easily I took everything apart and put it back together. My neighbors think I am insane, as I do not even have the plates for my car yet, but had it in pieces all over the garage.

Thanks everyone who I asked questions along the way. Will post pics tonight.

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Anyway, all done!