How to Clear third brake light
 

*Disclaimer : This is for offroad or show purposes only. This may be illegal so do not come up to me if you get in trouble for it. Be sure to pick up a red bulb if you do this*

Did this today on my fc, spent a good few hours this afternoon..
Used florescent ceiling lamp lenses.
Basically trim to fit the housing and drill 4 holes on the outer non-visible area and screw it to mount it. Then I had to trim 1 piece for the popped-up area that fits into the the body cut out area. Glued that to a trimmed piece of plexiglas that will be on the exterior surface. Glue used was clear adhesive sealant. Should be ok. Test fitted for flush-ness with the body and to get the position correct. Seems good. Waiting for the pieces to dry.

When you glue the pieces, the only way this will work is by gluing the visible area, hence why I used clear adhesive... Don't worry though, still very clear end product, just do it in thin enough layers to fill in, and don't get any air bubbles trapped.

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*the black trim is the original rubber seal. Try to keep those intact so you can reuse them, or purchase new ones, or make some sort of gasket to seal the lense to the body.

In the final pic, theres some glue/fingerprints on the exterior side which I will clean off once all the glue is set.

The beauty of this is that I can keep my red lense and always swap back. I did test these under lights and it is pretty good.

Things to worry about : I have noticed these ceiling lenses may fade to a slight brown from constant sun light over time, hopefully the plexiglas may hinder it a little bit. I also have a rear deck spoiler which cast shade over the light itself so Im not too worried about it.

hows it look on the car?

well its dark already when i finished it so ill ahve some pics tomarrow, but it looks pretty much like this

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Those are probably aftermarket by some jdm company, but im just showin how they should look simular.

I think it looks great with no rear spoiler, but again, i expect it may fade over time.

do not want.

u gonna use it with a regular bulb or do a led thing like ur tail lights?

eventually ill go LED
for now, i just sprayed my bulb with stained glass red paint.. came out nice

i agree you should try this mod man with led red lights in it to atleast match the tails you did that way. nice work though.

^^ yeah, i did this because i ahd all the materials already.. when i pick up a job, ill do LED, as well as other parts of the car.

its sumthing unique i like. ill help my lil brother do it to his s4 cus he likes it alot

Have to agree. I'm not a fan of making any tail lights even third brake lights clear.

I'd still like to see the finished product in use on the car though. I plan on doing an LED conversion to the third brake light on my trunk lid.

something different thats for sure

I ended up shading mine when I did the tails

Nice job! Should look better on any color FC except red. I'm happy Euro FC's don't have 3rd brake lights, so that's a cleaner look. Still have the ugly keyhole though.

Riz.

pretty neat look. time to follow up with some clear tail lights... if it's even possible. lol
would that be considered as the S5 Altezza tail light mod? :lol: :scratch:

but if someone was going for the show car look, clear lenses around the car,
i'm sure they'd rock this 3rd brake light mod. :bigthumb:

hypertek's all about being innovative. props yo.

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i enjoy making some stuff, if i was better financially id make more parts. Not much aftermarket support for the fcs due to demand.

i like how it looks wen luminated
i wonder how fogged plexi glass looks

the brake light housing however does not dispurse the light the best since the bulb kind shoots to the right of the housing. If I do a LED setup, it should be ok because i can aim em straight to the back.
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lookin' good! :bigthumb:

its easy to become a millionare making FC parts





all you have to do is start out with a few million dollars!

hahah better off doing FD parts, the FD section of this forum is a totally different ball park

hypertek: what led stripe did you use on the stock red tail lense? i actually like the way that one turned out.

i dont recall what brand, got em on ebay. 4 inch round led truck lights
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