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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

These are mine

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

Lights On

Lights On + Reverse On

Lights On + Breaks On

Breaks On


Lights On + Direction Indicators On
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Direction Indicators On
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onlytrueromeo wrote:

These are mine

I didn't know anyone else had done this...

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!!

[quote="Miguelitto"]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

quote]

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

Mooneggs wrote:

onlytrueromeo wrote: These are mine

I didn't know anyone else had done this...

I would like to do this in mine, but I'm not that courageous.....

v6powered wrote:

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

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.

About ½ way down is a pic of mine.
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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!!!

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:

I like this cars stage of life:

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):



OH and sorry for overtaking this thread