very sorry can`t help but wondering if your friend has haynes manual that covers the year 1998, have laguna estate, living in france, could he look to find out how to remove the high level spoiler on the tailgate, it has a illuminated high level brake light in it, which has stopped working, failed on the m.o.t. We have laguna book for renault 1.9, 2001-2005, will look for some answers in this for you, this is our other car, which the gearbox is screaming, need a s/h box from england can`t find anybody who will deliver to us in france. So bought the estate cheap for running around in this .... country. Renault parts are very expensive here, trying to repair ourselves.