There should be little black clips that u need to use a screwdriver to pry up on... It takes a while but it will come... Look for black, yellow or white clips up in there...

 

Those white clips are a pain in the @$$. had a bad experience with them, removing the tailights from the trunk lid of my 05 corolla...

good luck.

 

there are 6 clips that hold it on after the bolts come off, in the bottom corneres of the lid there are two round plastic covers(on each side), take them out if you look you will see the lower clip at the bottom corners, to see the uppers look through the left and right most opening inside behind the tail panel towards the edge you will see the uppers, the middle ones take the latch off and look up and down through the hole that the latch hid there are 2 here up and down.


to get them off work from one side to the other, while gently pulling up on the tail panel use a screwdriver to push the barbs on the clip in and through the hole, some times a pair of needle nose pliers work to but typically a flat tip screwdriver work fine

 

Thanks a lot, I finally got it off. I didn't see the four clips on the sides.