Stock Smoked Tailights

[Andriy242]

Soooo I had the weekend off and it wasn't to bad of weather and
I was very bored from playing GT5 and NHL 11.
So what can you do.
I smoked my taillights.

Took a good 6 hours or so with 3 coats
cost me $10 and a lot of newspaper and masking tape.

I didn't want them to look matte or extremely glossy so they turned out pretty well and at night, they shine fine no problems.

I will post night pics later when I take some
My car is dirty so there are these light water spots on the tail lights.

[msncorolla422]

those look great! I personally dont like that but congrats on the new mod

if I were to do anything like that I would do it like this:

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/lig...-way-pics.html

[himmie]

Looks nice!

But I do like the Taco tails better.

[Andriy242]

The tacoma ones definitely look great

I wouldn't mind going that light, but I had to go a bit darker
since my left taillight was broken and than I put it back together and fixed it
So teh darkness doesn't show the cracks that well anymore.

[himmie]

Originally Posted by Andriy242

The tacoma ones definitely look great

I wouldn't mind going that light, but I had to go a bit darker
since my left taillight was broken and than I put it back together and fixed it
So teh darkness doesn't show the cracks that well anymore.

That makes sense then. I still cannot decide if I want to tint mine or not. Did you just use VHT Nite Shades?

[FlawedLegacy]

Looks good, a bit too dark for me, but nice! I just cannot decide if I want to spray on (would be MUCH easier for me as i'm use to painting) or vinyl which would be harder to apply, but easier to remove should I not like it, etc.

[pinoyesv6]

it looks out of the place with the reflectors still red.

some wet sanding or some compound should get rid of that orange peel

[TerryPG]

looks like an old set of tail lights.

[Andriy242]

True that on the reflector
never actually noticed it thought.

And I was going to use nightshades but, one of my friends
put that on is civic and it looked bad imo.

I just used all use high heat plastic gloss paint.
And borrowed a paintgun and just did it that way.

And ya vinyl is good but it's a pain in the ass to put it on.
I gave up on that.

For me it was either $250 on new set of lights
or do this.
I saved $240

[clintj]

Would have done yours like mine for $50+shipping costs! You just would have been without taillights for a few days

[Andriy242]

Frik man should of read my mind before i did mine
your do look sick thought
still a bit too light for me.
but none the less looking veryyyy nice

btw where did you get the eye-lids.
I am sure ebay has lots, where do you recomend?

Originally Posted by clintj

Would have done yours like mine for $50+shipping costs! You just would have been without taillights for a few days

[SuperchargedMR2]

Way too dark for my taste but it does look evenly done. I just question if others can safely see your brakes lights during the day to stop in time.

[Andriy242]

Originally Posted by SuperchargedMR2

Way too dark for my taste but it does look evenly done. I just question if others can safely see your brakes lights during the day to stop in time.

Already tested.
I did think of that right of the bat.

I had my budy drive behind me on saturday afternoon when the sun was up and no problems, about a couple hundred meters you can see the lights light up no problems. And at night, it looks like there is was not much tint done at all

[Andriy242]

Here are some of the pics during day time
to see how bight the lights come out

Here are the driving lights


Brakes On


brakes on with 4 way flashers


Brakes on with reverse lights

[FlawedLegacy]

see if you can get some pics without a car shining light onto your car... driveway or something