Headlight Tinting - Lo&Show, take a look...
10-18-2001, 01:00 AM
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Thanks for the welcome...
I have since those pix taken the TCS for windows off the back side windows. Thought it was just a little to much. But I did replace solid vinyl visors front and back with the TCS windows. Now I don't twist my neck at traffic lights trying to see the sginal. Also did the sun roof and the wind deflector, works well for the monochrome look I am after.
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I have since those pix taken the TCS for windows off the back side windows. Thought it was just a little to much. But I did replace solid vinyl visors front and back with the TCS windows. Now I don't twist my neck at traffic lights trying to see the sginal. Also did the sun roof and the wind deflector, works well for the monochrome look I am after.
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10-18-2001, 01:39 PM
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I like the concept...but the taillights and headlights still look..."grey" than white, but given the medium...I guess it is as good as can be done.
I'm just wondering if you somehow used "whiter" paint if they wouldn't look "brighter" and more white and less grey?
Any ideas anyone?
I like the concept...but the taillights and headlights still look..."grey" than white, but given the medium...I guess it is as good as can be done.
I'm just wondering if you somehow used "whiter" paint if they wouldn't look "brighter" and more white and less grey?
Any ideas anyone?
10-18-2001, 10:31 PM
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Yeah it does look grey and not white to match the car exactly. You're also right that if you use a brighter white it helps it to match better. Alot of it has to do with the lights you're going on. My tails were so dark to begin with it did end up looking grey, but I saw it on a white Toyota and the lights looked much whiter than mine.
The TCS product I guess is limited that way, but I still think it works great, and I get lots of head turns.
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Yeah it does look grey and not white to match the car exactly. You're also right that if you use a brighter white it helps it to match better. Alot of it has to do with the lights you're going on. My tails were so dark to begin with it did end up looking grey, but I saw it on a white Toyota and the lights looked much whiter than mine.
The TCS product I guess is limited that way, but I still think it works great, and I get lots of head turns.
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10-19-2001, 12:58 AM
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For me personally, I wouldn't be going to try and match my body colour. I really like the shapes of the various lights on my car, and I want to find a way to bring that out. Automotive mascara, if you will. That's what I like about the tinting on the headlights of the King Body Kit photos. They're dark, so they tie in with the greyish colour of the car, but they aren't matched...they're still obviously separate from the rest of the body.
Albo - you may not have had personal experience with this, since you covered your lights with white...but does the film alter the colour of the output light any? If I were to cover my taillights, I would cover them with red, so that they would look completely solid...no white areas for the turn or reverse lights. BUT, having done that, would my reverse lights look red or pink when on? It really comes down to the film itself...is the film completely opaque except for the perforations, or does some light pass through, tinting that light?
Albo - you may not have had personal experience with this, since you covered your lights with white...but does the film alter the colour of the output light any? If I were to cover my taillights, I would cover them with red, so that they would look completely solid...no white areas for the turn or reverse lights. BUT, having done that, would my reverse lights look red or pink when on? It really comes down to the film itself...is the film completely opaque except for the perforations, or does some light pass through, tinting that light?
10-24-2001, 05:51 AM
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i had that same stuff on my headlights and tailights and they looked beautiful
too bad i had to take em off, although i have been thinking of reapplyin em, but just to the front though.....
i have pics of em here...web page
[ October 24, 2001: Message edited by: green 2k accent ]
too bad i had to take em off, although i have been thinking of reapplyin em, but just to the front though.....
i have pics of em here...web page
[ October 24, 2001: Message edited by: green 2k accent ]
10-26-2001, 05:35 AM
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Green 2k,
To bad you had to pull off the TCS, gave an original look. Cops in VA are some of the worst about harrassing over any little thing.
I had to pull mine off once to get an inspection sticker, just put it back on and found a guy that would inspect it.
The car of the month is a Hyundai on the TCS website. Stuff looks sweet! http://www.visiongraphic.com/tcs2.htm
later on...
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To bad you had to pull off the TCS, gave an original look. Cops in VA are some of the worst about harrassing over any little thing.
I had to pull mine off once to get an inspection sticker, just put it back on and found a guy that would inspect it.
The car of the month is a Hyundai on the TCS website. Stuff looks sweet! http://www.visiongraphic.com/tcs2.htm
later on...
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10-26-2001, 05:57 AM
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Most local rice shops here in Cali sell special headlamp and tail lamp spray type paints, which are fabricated specially for tinting. All that needs to be done for the best job would be to remove the assemblies, clean the surface, mask, spray the paint, and let it dry. This stuff holds up pretty good and once its on, its on, unless you want to spend about an hour on each lamp assembly scrubing with a soft cotton cloth and paint thiner, which I did to get the stuff off my rear tail lamp assemblies. At one point I had my rear tail lamps on my 1G tib completely REDDED-OUT (all red) 
10-26-2001, 08:59 AM
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The TCS film seems pretty neat...but I don't like how it gives the lights a matte finish with no depth. That's why I kinda want tinting...you keep the depth of your stock lights, just make the housing darker.
You got a product name on that spray stuff, Speedblind? Try and find me a source for it...I'd like to take a look.
You got a product name on that spray stuff, Speedblind? Try and find me a source for it...I'd like to take a look.