This thread is for sharing pictures and ideas and for customing your tail lights.
I want to customize my tail lights, in Germany we have orange direction indicators, so i decided to paint them red, its a good contrast on white i think.
The color is candy red, and has been done by my painter.
Here are some pictures of my tail lights:
and because i am so proud of my new paint , here is a pic of the front
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All mine are tinted out, I got a set of oem tails that I'm going to smooth down and do some kind of red treatment to them. But my mind keeps changing haha! I also want to get a set of the black altezzas, remove the lens (permanently), and paint the housing blaze red to match the car.
Money shot:
Angle shot:
And to whomever can find where the LEDs are flushed in on my frame, gets a major high five!!
I would like to do this in mine, but I'm not that courageous.....
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Miguelitto wrote:Great tail light, Simple and easy ......
I did the same in mine about 2 years ago .....
now mine, have a Chrome Altezzas with LED lights
good job, i like them have you detail pictures of your led's?
trueromero and mooneggs, have you more pictures of your tail lights? i like the red altezzas, too
I have this one
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I don't have more pics of them, I'm currently in the process of touching them up since Im a bad painter.
Moons, I got the idea form you a while back. I asked about it in your worklog I used black altezzas, they give it a slightly darker look than if you were painting over chrome.
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I altered "Altezza"s to look this way. I think they're the best thing you can do for tail lights. I'll get better pics one day.
By the way, I also have the blueish reverse lights, and had LEDs for the rest, but they don't show up as well, since they shine directly up. I would like to alter the housings so that I can screw LEDs into the back, so they shine directly out.
fowljesse wrote:About ½ way down is a pic of mine.
By the way, I also have the blueish reverse lights, and had LEDs for the rest, but they don't show up as well, since they shine directly up. I would like to alter the housings so that I can screw LEDs into the back, so they shine directly out.
I found a led bulb that have leds all around it!!!
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onlytrueromeo wrote:Moons, I got the idea form you a while back. I asked about it in your worklog I used black altezzas, they give it a slightly darker look than if you were painting over chrome.
awesome I completely forgot... yeah I'm not sure which I like better chrome vs black painted all red. The key is putting a good clear coat over the top... but I think eventually it will fade regardless
Here's a bad faded one:
I think this is when I first coated them (man these pics are old!!) it looks like I had just coated the OEM lights too:
lol you do realize the only thing that has changed from that picture to what is on the car right now is a CF spoiler and all red OEM tails...
and I think that photo is 5 years old or so? haha next challenge... figure out which car is which
here's a few more..
one of my all time favorite mx-3's of all timen - Yence - these are gelcoated red oem euro taillights (same as on my DD right now):
, here is a pic of the front 
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