Can the rear bumper be removed without removing the tail lights?

 

Not sure...when I did the quad tip mod, I removed my tail lights. Easy to do and then the bumper was simple. Getting up the nerve to cut a perfectly good bumper, not so easy.

 

every time i have seen it done, tail lights was removed prior to bumper removal.

 

The taillights are only held in with 3 bolts so it's not that hard to remove them to make your life easier.

 

I'm putting on the GT500 valence too, and the only reason I was asking is because my kicker sub was in the way of the right tail, but I ended up just taking it out even though I didn't want to.

 

I think you can get away with leaving them in. Had to pull up some old pics to see. I don't see much of a lip (if any) behind the taillights. If anything, you might only have to loosen the tail lights. Judging from the pics I left mine on for the swap, and its not something I would've thrown back in mid-install for the sake of a pic.