Brake lights (2006)?

My 05 has replaceable bulbs. Just did one side. It is pretty easy to open the hatch, pop off the cover and have a look.

 

The taillight, side marker, turn signal/hazard, and back-up lights are replaceable bulbs. The stop, or brake, lights are LEDs built into the housing.



(The diagram is referring to the clever/artsy thing they did in 2004–5, where the 'extension' pieces below the stop light reflectors were black, so when the stop lights were off you'd be seeing reflected black where the stop lights were, which blended with the dark hatch lower glass. But I think for 2006–9 they did away with the black-extension trick so those units look silvery when the stop lights are off.)

 

You can carefully open the brake light compartment with a dremel or a heated blade. The LEDs will be easy to access, they can be replaced with other LEDs by soldering them to the plates. The difficulty is to reattach the cut off part of the plastic case. It will be necessary to ensure a certain tightness of that part so that water does not get into it.

At used and wrecked car dismantlers, you can find inexpensive taillights and avoid having to repair the brake light yourself.

 

I pulled the rear tail lights apart all the time I only use the 0405 I like the blacked out brake lights any 06 to 09 car I have the tail lights come off and going to the box and 045 go on every car in the parking lot is like that yes you can crack open the tail lights and pull the board out and pull the LED assembly out if that's your thing and if you work on electronics you might be able to get it to work again being as they're only like $48 these days I don't do much of that no they're not the original Stanley's but they're close enough for the tail lights I only use Stanley's for the front headlights factory originals no fax the tail lights literally doesn't matter