I took the amber out of my taillights and replaced it with "crushed glass" plastic sheeting. It looks a whole lot better! thought I'd let you guys know it was real easy. Thanks.


Modified by tha Big EZ at 2:07 PM 10/14/2003

 

Do you have pics?

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Ill try and post some later, do i have to be subscribed to a host site to upload them to this site? I have never put pictures up! let me know how and ill put them up. And it looks sooooooooooooooooooooo much better than having the amber in!

 

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Got a write up about how you did it?

 

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we dont even know what kinda of tail light it is.

 

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we dont even know what kinda of tail light it is.
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Yeah, thats my bad! I took the amber part out of my 96 Prelude taillights. To do this,

1. I took the lights off the back of the car. And took off the foam piece on the back of the lights. (so as to not toast it in the oven)

2. took a cookie sheet, and put a flat layer of tin foil ( so the light isnt sitting directly on anything hot enough to melt it, the physical light that is!) on the sheet, then set the taillight on the tin foil in my oven, on Bake, @ 250 degres F for 3-4 minutes.

3. I then pulled the light out of the oven and wedge a butter knife in between the red plastic and black housing at the top point of the light, just enough to fit a flat in the space to seperate the two. They will come apart farely easy because the oven melts the glue thats holds them together. Open the taillights from top to bottom!!!!!!

4. Pop out amber and clear piece out of the red plastic side!

5. Relplace with plastic sheeting, you bought form Home Depot or Lowe's, that is used to put in ceiling lights in schools or in kitchens. It comes in about a 2 1/2 foot by 2/1/2 foot square. I used the "crushed glass" sheeting instead of the raised squares! I think it makes for a more interesting look. but its your choice. I also used a glue gun with black glue sticks to hold the sheeting in place. Super glue, glue gun, or plastic epxoy will work too!

6. semi squeeze both housings back together, and sit in oven to re-melt the glue(2-3 minutes). Once glue is re-melted, squeeze botn sides together till it is back how it started, sealed shut!

7. replace lights.

8. turn on hazards to notice your new weapon against tail-gaters. Mine seem to be SUPER bright, so if someone is tailing my *** real bad, I hit them on and they back up real quick!

9. enjoy

Ill get pics up asap! thanx for checkin this out

 

i think prelude is the only tail light you can do that to.

 

i wanna see!