Can a $30 Fix Repair an $800 Estimate Fixing Defective GMC Yukon LED Tail Light / Brake Light

UPDATE - I put links below to the products used for the repair let me know if I missed one that your are interested in. Please Subscribe and Like the Video if this helped you ! First a disclaimer, I am not a professional so please be kind, secondly do this at your own risk, you could cause damage to your car or potentially lose your taillight if you don't do it correctly. If you choose to do the repair the risk is all yours.

Last week I got pulled over by a very friendly police officer letting me know that I had a taillight out on our 3 year old 2016 GMC Yukon XL Denali. We took it to the dealer to fix and they came back with a $800 estimate. I searched the internet to find a ton of others with the same problem. Apparently GMC had a safety defect on these but hasn't recalled them. I found a YouTube video on how one person had fixed theirs but still had some questions ( I will link to it below). So I set out to fix ours and avoid the $800 bill. The repair was not too difficult but you will need some tools and a little bit of mechanical know how.

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