As I haven't figgered out how to post more than one photo, the single attached photo shows the results of my effort to make the tail light to be as horizontal as possible. Wanted to post a before and after. Removed the assembly and chopped a wedge of material off both sides so that the plastic light was closer to horizontal. Also chopped about 1-1/2 inches off the heigth of the area where the license plate mounts.
To get it perfectly horizontal [and the license plate vertical] would have required that the top portion of the assembly be lengthened because no more metal could reasonably be removed from the lower portion of the sides. I chose not to do that and satisfied myself with just removing metal. The part is black from the factory so color matching was not an issue.
I think it looks better now.
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