smoked lights

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:46 am

What do you guys think of these?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-BLAC ... dZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Acura-In ... dZViewItem

the 2nd one looks better to me. Do you guys think these will work well? Also im worried about how well the light will still light up.. i want people to be able to see me. lol... im especialy concered about spraying it on the headlights

Danny

AcingTeam · Post by **AcingTeam** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:04 am

Hmmm... I'm not sure about visibility issues, but I like the 2nd one better as well

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:15 am

it looks cool on the rear but on the front it makes the car seems "blind" specially with the much darker spray.

BTW: regular black spray will dim the lights so much that they won't be visable.

MMamdouh

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:49 am

mmamdouh wrote:it looks cool on the rear but on the front it makes the car seems "blind" specially with the much darker spray.

BTW: regular black spray will dim the lights so much that they won't be visable.

MMamdouh

What do you mean "regular" black spray? like spray paint...?

Im not planning to do the fronts.. ill either paint or tint part of it but leave cirlces where the lgiht can shine through.. or at the very least to eye brows

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:52 am

kinkyllama wrote:What do you mean "regular" black spray? like spray paint...?

yep... some of my friends did that and the lights dimmed as hell.

MMamdouh

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:56 am

mmamdouh wrote:
kinkyllama wrote:What do you mean "regular" black spray? like spray paint...?
yep... some of my friends did that and the lights dimmed as hell.

MMamdouh

I kinda thought that would be common sense. But yeah.. i wont do that

mocpac · Post by **mocpac** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:56 pm

if you want to see how it's look chk in the spanish sec all of our cars have red or smoke tail lights... I recomend the smoke paper.

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:58 pm

i reccomend the smoke tint spray... like stainedglass paint

BosnianLanos · Post by **BosnianLanos** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:34 pm

Don't worry about the light emmision from the tail lights. They will still be like 90% as bright as they were before the tint. I did it with 25% tint and you can still see the brakes light up even in direct sunlight. Not to mention that you probabally won't be tinting the high mount brake lamp so you won't have a problem.

As for the headlights, it shouldn't be that bad either, but you will definately notice a decrease in light so I personally wouldn't use it on head lights.

Also, when you cover the plastic, it has trouble dissipating the heat so it has a chance of melting or cracking. A good option would be to throw in a set of LED lamps in the taillights to eliminate all possibility of heat deformation.

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:42 pm

BosnianLanos wrote:Don't worry about the light emmision from the tail lights. They will still be like 90% as bright as they were before the tint. I did it with 25% tint and you can still see the brakes light up even in direct sunlight. Not to mention that you probabally won't be tinting the high mount brake lamp so you won't have a problem.

As for the headlights, it shouldn't be that bad either, but you will definately notice a decrease in light so I personally wouldn't use it on head lights.

Also, when you cover the plastic, it has trouble dissipating the heat so it has a chance of melting or cracking. A good option would be to throw in a set of LED lamps in the taillights to eliminate all possibility of heat deformation.

haha.. my back window is limo tint so i doubt you can even see the high mont brake light (as my new wing replaces the spoiler).

and how easy do you think the tint will get messed up from heat? it gets 120 degrees F where i livee.... although my car is parked in a garage, every once in awhile (rarly) i go somewhere during the day

derost · Post by **derost** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:03 pm

I'd say that buying either of these would be a bit of a Leap-of-Faith, as those images are only... how do I put it... um... fake? Photoshopped? "Simulated"?

Who knows, the product may be great, and the images are close to how it would look.

It's probable as close as they were able to get to applying it to high-end cars.

mocpac · Post by **mocpac** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:13 pm

GsiTurbo · Post by **GsiTurbo** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:13 am

If you are going to use it, it may be a good idea to try it on a piece of glass first....better safe than sorry

Tom

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:18 pm

Well got the stuff... its in like Japanese. lol. So anyone wanna recommend how i should go about spraying this on my tail lights?

Im going to test it on something first.. but what should i test it out? glass is completly different than the plastic in the taillights

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:25 pm

try a clear plastic cup or a a clear plastic spoon. or if you have a bike try it on the reflectors.

nick