Homegrown turn signals
 

I took my turn signals off and painted the inside part black then put the chrome piece back in and used 1/4inch plexi for the covers, the pic doesn't even do it justice

good idea but i think it might look better if you took the chrome piece out, i dont like it just me 2 cents

it looks wierd......haha like diffrent i wouldnt do it....i think the stock piece looks great well not for s4 but for s5 heh

I think that might piss off some drivers, as each time your turn signal strobes, it will look like a broken tail light.
-a

My 2 cents? I think a completely clear lens makes it look like the lens fell out. I made an opaque lens for my S4 out of a piece of flourescent light cover ($5 for a 2'x4' sheet at Home Depot.) It has a diamond pattern embossed into it, a nice came-like-this-from-the-factory look, and with an amber bulb, looks great. Similar to an S5 lens.

what did u use to cut the light cover thing?

ya, what did you use to cut the clear lexan stuff? Did you put some kind of rubber or something around it so it wont let water it?

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well i just went out and bought some of that matieral for the clear lenses. It was like $7.36 with tax at homedepot. Its that stuff that is for those floresnt lights. Now i need to cut it with my jigsaw because that crap cracks if u dont do it right :rolleyes:

black chrome would be kinda cool

Hmm... looks broken. If I had that setup, I think I would paint the black area behind the reflector with chrome (or any reflective silver) paint, then get some tint spray (hobby shops have it for lexan bodied cars) and smoke them babies. Then toss some amber bulbs in, and you're done.

heres the ones i made, i smoked them very lightly with white paint

and i cut mine with a dremel using the round sanding disc.

so you cut yours with a sander? Im confused :confused:

o btw scheister, i saw in your sig. CF bezel. Is that the radio surround one from corck sport that you cut out the holes yourself? If it is how was the installtion? What did you use to cut the cf?

i used the round sander bit, sandpaper spinning that fast against platic makes enought friction to melt threw it like butter. and i got the CG surround off ebay, so no cutting required. fitment is pretty good on the one i got too.

edit: ps use the edge of the sanding bit, just like the harder cutting bit.

so u used a round sander? I was thinking off using a jigsaw because that matieral cracks really easy? The sander didn't make it crack?

i would think the backand forth motion of the saw would crack it easier. yes it does crack easily, i found that out as soon as i tried to cut it with a razor. the sander spins fast enough that as soon as it touches it it melts it, also the heat of when you first touch the sander to it makes it pliable to where it doesnt crack.

so if it melts it...how do you even make shape of it?

Wow...you aren't too...nevermind. He used a cutting wheel basically.

-Joe

I cut the material from Home Depot by scoring it repeatedly with a very sharp razor knife, and then snapping it off. I'd guess a hacksaw blade would do the job, too.

i used the rounds sanding bit just as if it was the cutting wheel.... i dont know how to explain it anymore than that....

i have had the best results , cutting a rough outline /basic shape with a cutting disc on a dremel,, boiling it ,, mating it onto the old lens with small spring clamps , and using a fine stone grinder to smooth it out and match the OEM lens. thats how i made the ones that someone linked to in above post

i just finished mine..... ill get pics up in like an hour

yea... image doesnt work o well

I made a set of these a few years ago.... Mine wer painted silver behind....


http://www.freewebs.com/2rotorracing/clears%20003.jpg

You can get a great opaque look by sandblasting the inside of the plexi.

I made one like that playing around, but never put it on since w/ out the faceted reflective stock lense it is pretty obvious it is not DOT approved and must another reason for them to pull me over (and look under the hood- eek).

One can simulated the look of the stock reflector, but not funtion by the use of flourescent light cover material.

One can simulate the funtion of the stock reflector, but not the look by using the reflective paint w/ glass beads in it on the backside of the clear lense.

Or just grab a larger clear faceted DOT lense off another car and cut it down to size being careful to leave the DOT info in place... Still might look cool enough they pull you over, sigh.

That would be a very dumb thing to do. That chrome piece is not there for decoration, it's the reflector. Without it the light output would be significantly reduced.

i did this too a few months ago...

i used florecent lighting plastic.... i dont like the broken look:-\

hmm well not quite the results i expected but like i said the pic doesn't do it justice every one who has seen em in perosn likes em they don't look bropken in peroson and i do plan to tint the plexi glass with 20% window tint

No, the photo shows exacly what it looks like: broken. Even professional photography won't fix the fact that it just looks like the lense fell out. Any transparent lense will look just as bad. Plus stock lenses are designed to make the light work better (by diffusing the light), so if you want clear lenses do it properly and cut down a bigger OEM lense as suggested. It'll look and work far better.

Well actually your wrong it doesn't exactly look like the picture, and if you read my posts you'd see that i'm going to tint them tommorrow with 20% window tint and it doesn't look bad now, before i painted the silver housing black it looked broked but now it doesn't when you look at the car the clack housing now blends in with the side moulding and looks quite nice, your entitled to your opinion and i agree taht the s5's look great but i wanted something different and i did it and the reason i say the pic doesn't do it justice is that it was taken on a camera phone and the colors are off and everone whos seen it in person likes it

Uhh... yeah, it does look broken. It's pretty horrible.

ok well its my car and i like it so i'm sorry i even asked if only someone would close this useless thread now. I don't care if you don't like them thats fine and it's fine if you tell me but why so harsh?