The two euro spec LED tail lights i needed to complete the set came in, low and behold they were chipped during shipping so another set is being sent my way. I now have two tail lights with corners chipped off and two inners with the cover plate tabs broken.
because the first ones bought from some forum bro were shipped by e-acca, and my two were ordered from cars245. The problem is clear as day, the tail lights are bigger then their shipping boxes and the corners get a strip of foam and protrude beyond the box geometry, appearing like a bulge out the top of the box. I'm now convinced that the seller puts a claim in for all lights to shop and get reported as broken, easily doubling their sales figure.
I'm going to keep the two slightly damaged ones and sell the hopefully mint set when they arrive.
Install happens in the spring, I'm not going to play around with plastic covers in this cold.