painted taillights
 

has anybody ever painted S5 taillights... i mean the part that doesnt light up...so its like just circles? I searched and found a thread from like 3 years ago, people were calling it rice. Anyone got any pics?

http://www.poppalon.com/rice.jpg

Even Condeleeza says this thread is rice. theres a reason we called it rice three years ago. Theres a reason we'll call it rice now. None the less, there have been pictureso f them painted... looks like shit imo though-- good way to trash/waste a decent pair of rare s5 tails

:withstupi


do a search theres pics and threads about this

I could understand smoking them, but painting them like you stated? I don't know, that does seem a little rice.

i can understand not liking thunderchicken tallights... go for s4's because they are so much cooler.

lol good one Aesop i did search and the pics arent being hosted ne more thats y i posted. anyway i never mentioned doing the mod, i just wanna see a pic.

if you wanna smoke your taillights do you just spray the inside with smoke paint? and do they still work well?

NICE

thunderchicken? lol wtf? i cant belive another person knows what that is...

uh oh....

Everyone knows what a thunderchicken is. But I aggree, black S4 lights that are tinted look hot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...05/S4Tails.jpg
Repainted (rattle can) and striped with Pepboys grade pinstriping. I thought it might make the S4 tails look a little meaner without adding unnecissary rice. Two cars and 6 months later, no sign of wear. They looked better on Silver though.

and painted body color like the 10th AE

Oh yes.

how is that less rice than painting S5 lights. All you're doing is painting the part that doesnt light up in both applications. I'm not asking to be an asshole, im genuinly curious as to why people like this and dislike the other.

unless you seperate the lens from the housing- painting the inside of a s5 light will only give you shaded circles, the rest will remain stock

i repainted my s4 tails when i painted my car. ppg bright blue mettallic. i think it looks pretty sweet...i'll try to get a pic if i can ever get my hands on a digicam

pat

again........

someone plz explain 2 me why painting the non-light up part of the tail is awsome on the S4 but sucky on the S5. Just tell me why, thats all i ask.

Try it in Photoshop. That's the only way you'll really, truly know w/o actually doing it. Supply me with a good image of nice S5 rearend and I'll give it a try.

just because of the way the lights are designed, it looks cool on s4, and not so good on s5.

pat

hey buddy I wanna black smoke my taillight too.

they look like wannabe corvette lights on the S5
I saw it once, and wow that was fugly! (to me)

Here is a picture of what I did with my S5 tail-lights on my convertible
http://v8rx7.com/pics/redtail.jpg

hey that's pretty nice! :bigthumb:

i have this feference book on the fc (it was published in '85) and its mostly about its history and planning but it also has lots of info on other rotary cars and rotaries in general. but one of the original ideas was to have lights that (if S5's exited) look like your "thunderchicken" tail lights. they wanted it to resemble taillights of the r100.

Hey uRizen heres a pic.... photoshop it if u feel like it that'd be cool to see.

i couldn't see the lines real well in that pic, but here's a shot at it:

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/8380/urizen_rearchop.jpg

It doesn't look all that bad, but I still prefer painted S4 tails on my FCs. :D I guess they've grown on me too much.

The color matches well but it looks too much like the "all-too popular ricer sticker headlight mods" for me. I like to stay away from faghat mods like that. But hey if you like being faggy why not right?


Santiago

yea sry about the angle. i think it looks cool....makes the car look newer. huge taillights= kinda 80'sish 2me. I would prob make the turn signal red tho.

I think the things that would keep it from looking decent are teh reverse lamps, and the fact that everything isn't centered vertically.

[sarcasm]Yeah we don't need people to see us while slowing down at night......or in the day for that matter. Who cares about getting rearended.

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r u kidding? it doesnt change the light projection at all. What's painted over doesn't light up anyway.