FC Euro Taillights
10-18-05, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by NZConvertible
What makes me laugh is how clear or Altezza-syle lights get called "Euro" lights by the junk dealers who sell them and the ricer kids who buy them, when there's nothing even slightly European about them. What European car had lights like that? None that I can think of.
i work at a parts store and had a kid come in the other day and ask me for euro lugnuts i just kinda statred at him forawhile and asked him if he ment he wanted metric lugnuts. he said no euro ones i just told him i didnt know what he was talking about and he left
10-18-05, 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by k-rok
this is true, and funny. i think like, lexus's and nissan maxima's are the only car that come with stock tailights like that. its not "Der Nissan" folks ;-)
and RX-8's
thank god they don't make crap like that for FC's...
10-18-05, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by reatrdedspleen
Anybody have any idea how exactly they did those blacked out s4's? take them apart and get them tinted?
I think that looks pretty good on a black FC.
I think that looks pretty good on a black FC.
They're not REAL dark, just darker then stock. The lighting in the picture makes them appear darker then they actually are. The coating is thin enough that the factory reflectors still reflect just fine. I compared them vs. a stock light in daytime and night time, and the difference was not perceivable from 10-15 feet away, even in sunlight.
It's just a matter of proper application (thin coats) of the paint, and polishing it correctly. If the paint is polished, the reflection in the black helps make it appear darker then it is, vs. flat paint, which has to be thicker for the same "darkness"
I've never been hasseled about them by the police, and from my testing, I do not believe that recognition by other cars was adversely affected. It does open you up for fault claims in an accident if someone rear ends you though.
I have stock S5s now, those tails aren't on it any longer (did a complete S5 conversion to the body).
Regardless, thanks for the compliments.
10-18-05, 10:30 AM
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some super custom fc's get bad enough (see rx-7 with integra front end and accord altezzas), let alone their actully being aftermarket rice parts for it. see me...people ask why i spraypainted my car. i tell them it was because i used all my money on the turbo under the hood. the way my car looks to other people has never really been a big thing to me. sure, i put in racing seats, gauges, and all that interior crap, but thats like, more for me...you know? hell, ill take running 12's over altezzas any day.
10-18-05, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Makenzie71
...is not the reason they're illegal. They're illegal because the department of transportation approved a specific design to meet specific criteria. Altering that design in any way makes it a product that the DOT has not reviewed, no approved.
10-18-05, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Jager
I think when blacked-out they look good. Like this:
Thank you DigitalSolo for the picture.
Thank you DigitalSolo for the picture.
10-18-05, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by digitalsolo
They are sprayed with a couple of thin coats of VHT Niteshades, and then polished with several levels of 3M paint polish.
They're not REAL dark, just darker then stock. The lighting in the picture makes them appear darker then they actually are. The coating is thin enough that the factory reflectors still reflect just fine. I compared them vs. a stock light in daytime and night time, and the difference was not perceivable from 10-15 feet away, even in sunlight.
It's just a matter of proper application (thin coats) of the paint, and polishing it correctly. If the paint is polished, the reflection in the black helps make it appear darker then it is, vs. flat paint, which has to be thicker for the same "darkness"
I've never been hasseled about them by the police, and from my testing, I do not believe that recognition by other cars was adversely affected. It does open you up for fault claims in an accident if someone rear ends you though.
I have stock S5s now, those tails aren't on it any longer (did a complete S5 conversion to the body).
Regardless, thanks for the compliments.
They're not REAL dark, just darker then stock. The lighting in the picture makes them appear darker then they actually are. The coating is thin enough that the factory reflectors still reflect just fine. I compared them vs. a stock light in daytime and night time, and the difference was not perceivable from 10-15 feet away, even in sunlight.
It's just a matter of proper application (thin coats) of the paint, and polishing it correctly. If the paint is polished, the reflection in the black helps make it appear darker then it is, vs. flat paint, which has to be thicker for the same "darkness"
I've never been hasseled about them by the police, and from my testing, I do not believe that recognition by other cars was adversely affected. It does open you up for fault claims in an accident if someone rear ends you though.
I have stock S5s now, those tails aren't on it any longer (did a complete S5 conversion to the body).
Regardless, thanks for the compliments.
But i do want those...maybe i'll just have to buy a set off ebay or a pick'n'pull or somethen to mess around with.
10-18-05, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Makenzie71
rok...this is the only pic left (that I can find) from a guy here who made a set or two...he made them pretty cheap, though, and they looked really poor under close inspection.
10-18-05, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by fcdrifter13
I remember seeing those. But i never sis see a set close up. How were they shabby I think they look alright. But hey thats just my 0.02
10-25-05, 08:06 AM
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Dunno if this is right or not. But im just showin you.
http://rx7world.com.phtemp.com/catal...ns_2078284.htm
http://rx7world.com.phtemp.com/catal...ns_2078284.htm
11-08-05, 09:43 PM
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EURO LIGHTS SUCK! QUIT BEING SUCH A RICER !GESH! at the same time being different is what tuning is all about, but if every one else is doing it does doing it your self make u different or just another RICER?
