Ok so I am in the process of attempting a midnight taillight mod, basically what i did was cut taillights and painted chrome bezel with metallic black paint, and then plasti welded it back together.
I have just completed on of taillights, check out some pictures



http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...6-16195352.jpg
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...6-16194252.jpg

more pics the last photobucket has a glare we can't accurately see the difference. Oh and explain plasti-weld please? I have never heard of that...

Please elaborate on the process a bit more, they look good!

you should be able to see how it looks from first picture, once i finish second one tomorow I'll take some picts with my digital camera


I basically followed this guyz idea,
his diy inst relly complete but was enough for me.
I am not sure if plasti weld is the right term, but basically you melt the plastic with soldering iron or plastic welder. That link explains it much better than I can lol, and has links to all tools needed.

you should be able to see how it looks from first picture, once i finish second one tomorow I'll take some picts with my digital camera


I basically followed this guyz idea,
his diy inst relly complete but was enough for me.
I am not sure if plasti weld is the right term, but basically you melt the plastic with soldering iron or plastic welder. That link explains it much better than I can lol, and has links to all tools needed.

Looks pretty cool! Quadruple post FTL though

yea i dont know how that happened lol

Did you do the whole lens or leave the areas with lights untouched?
Looks good and I like the idea but are these legal in your area?

these would be legal anywhere. There is only one reflector inside and i masked it off, everything else was blacked out. covers that go on top of leds are clear so there was no reason to black them out and reduce light output since once you put them on a black housing they look dark and leds shine through as they were before. The coolest thing about this mod is you cant get ticket because lights are not tintened, only the bezel behind the lens that was once chrome just for the looks, is not just black for the looks.

Looking forward to seeing pics with them back on the car, lit and unlit.

Not sure what I think until I see them on your car... pics!

+1

^+2

i think theyre gonna look pretty sick a good idea

oh nice~~~ since i have extra pair of tail lights, i should try this...
value for used tail lights on ebay is going to go up!! get it cheap while you can people!!

haha soo true
but I really dont think alot of ppl will attempt to do this, if you think about not alot of ppl painted their own headlights, and this is soo much harderd and time consuming

From the pics, it looks like you just painted the whole lens.
Waiting for detailed on-car pics.

Looks good