Diy Tinted/clear Taillight Covers
08-27-2006, 12:51 PM
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (REDZMAN @ Aug 27 2006, 10:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It's not really wierd if you think about it. The brake lights are part of the cruise system. When you hit your brakes, the cruise turns off.</div>
Never thought about that one REDZ, very interesting... I usually use my clutch to take off the cruise, would that still work?
Never thought about that one REDZ, very interesting... I usually use my clutch to take off the cruise, would that still work?
08-27-2006, 01:04 PM
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That's not the issue, the bulbs make it to where the system won't SET. Your cruise light on the dash will come on, if I remember correctly, but the cruise won't work at all.
08-27-2006, 03:16 PM
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Just got word from the LED store that I'd probably get them mailed to me on tuesday or wednesday.
If I get them, I'll take some pictures of the light with the POS led's, red bulbs (painted, glass paint!), and the new LED's.
If you want to know wich are the POS led's:
Don't buy these crappy things, 'cause they light up horrible.
They only light to the front, and since the bulb location in the taillight isn't really straight back,
it's not working well at all.
The new ones will have leds to the side as welll, so I think they will look much better than these.
Oh, and it's raining all day now, having some thunder with storms and sh*t.
So I hope the tails won't let any water through.
Probably won't get any better tested than this.
Though, I'm thinkg about putting another (black) layer of sealing around the edges,
it feels a bit too thin right now.
I'll see how it goes...
If I get them, I'll take some pictures of the light with the POS led's, red bulbs (painted, glass paint!), and the new LED's.
If you want to know wich are the POS led's:
Don't buy these crappy things, 'cause they light up horrible.
They only light to the front, and since the bulb location in the taillight isn't really straight back,
it's not working well at all.
The new ones will have leds to the side as welll, so I think they will look much better than these.
Oh, and it's raining all day now, having some thunder with storms and sh*t.
So I hope the tails won't let any water through.
Probably won't get any better tested than this.
Though, I'm thinkg about putting another (black) layer of sealing around the edges,
it feels a bit too thin right now.
I'll see how it goes...
08-29-2006, 06:45 PM
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anyone do this on a blue rd2? like the look of it but wanna see if it will work with the blue or just look bad, have limo tint on the windows so it would match nice with that on one hand
08-30-2006, 08:39 AM
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lol ... nice write up ... I just did the same thing over at EXD and EC for my Elantra, I just didn't broke the OEM cover laugh.gif
I won't post my DIY here as it may confuse some ppl ... I just didn't took the time to install the acrylic cover! but the rest is there ;
http://www.elantraclub.com/forum/index.php...c=10966&hl=
I won't post my DIY here as it may confuse some ppl ... I just didn't took the time to install the acrylic cover! but the rest is there ;
http://www.elantraclub.com/forum/index.php...c=10966&hl=
08-30-2006, 11:29 AM
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Well, I had to break the orginal covers, as they did not come off in any way.
Even now I still got the original sealing below the new one. I dunnno what kinda stuff they used...
In my case, you could even see the sealing covering about 1 cm on top of those clipse.
With my old, still stock, tails, they looks the same as yours acutally.
Plus, the original covers where already scratched over the blinker on the left and over the brake on the right.
Some sorta key abuse I think.
I bought the extra set for about 15 euros, so, who cares tongue.gif .
And breaking something is always more fun wink1.gif .
Oh, and so install those covers man, they look kewl!
Even now I still got the original sealing below the new one. I dunnno what kinda stuff they used...
In my case, you could even see the sealing covering about 1 cm on top of those clipse.
With my old, still stock, tails, they looks the same as yours acutally.
Plus, the original covers where already scratched over the blinker on the left and over the brake on the right.
Some sorta key abuse I think.
I bought the extra set for about 15 euros, so, who cares tongue.gif .
And breaking something is always more fun wink1.gif .
Oh, and so install those covers man, they look kewl!