yea... image doesnt work o well

 

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

 

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?