[Focus man. Focus.]

Use this trick. Give the wife your credit card and send out to buy something pretty. When she is gone take the tails and bake them in the oven. This will soften the glue and make it easier to open them up. When the wife is finished shopping and goes to use the card and finds out that you have called it in as stolen and can't buy anything she will come home empty handed, but she will never know that you used the stove to bake your tail lights.

Problem solved. :D