tail light mod sizes?
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tail light mod sizes?
hi all
bought my heat gun and am ready to pull my lights appart, have bookmarked the iluvmyrx7 page and have just 1 question...
the site lists 75mm and 80mm for the cut sizes to match the oem lights, somewhere i seem to have read that someone has tried different sizes or spacings than oem copy and found them better???
haven't been able to find it with searches
anyone know that thread?
eric e
bought my heat gun and am ready to pull my lights appart, have bookmarked the iluvmyrx7 page and have just 1 question...
the site lists 75mm and 80mm for the cut sizes to match the oem lights, somewhere i seem to have read that someone has tried different sizes or spacings than oem copy and found them better???
haven't been able to find it with searches
anyone know that thread?
eric e
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I think i did mine 70 80 and I screwed up the paint pretty bad but they still look good as long as you aren't right up close looking for problems, but my car isn't a show car. Just make sure you heat the glue up good and seal it back together really good or else you get condensation in there.
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One thing for sure is wait till the paint dries completely before you lift the circles off. othewise if wet, it will stretch and get on the part you just masked.
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actually am thinking of buying a couple of feet of thin black adhesive sheet from the local car parts store
the kind that sticker shops use as stock to cut their signs from, can get it in semi-gloss black or carbon
that way the mod would be completely reversable if i cocked it up or future owners wanted to go back to stock
eric e
the kind that sticker shops use as stock to cut their signs from, can get it in semi-gloss black or carbon
that way the mod would be completely reversable if i cocked it up or future owners wanted to go back to stock
eric e
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good idea eric, I was thinking of doing the same thing. Only, I would worry about the sticker comming off over time; heat from sunlight exposure maybe? I dont really know, but being able to reverse the process would always be nice. I myself can't see why someone would want to do that, but hey, if u can, why not. Who's got a template?
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Originally posted by eric e
actually am thinking of buying a couple of feet of thin black adhesive sheet from the local car parts store
the kind that sticker shops use as stock to cut their signs from, can get it in semi-gloss black or carbon
that way the mod would be completely reversable if i cocked it up or future owners wanted to go back to stock
eric e
actually am thinking of buying a couple of feet of thin black adhesive sheet from the local car parts store
the kind that sticker shops use as stock to cut their signs from, can get it in semi-gloss black or carbon
that way the mod would be completely reversable if i cocked it up or future owners wanted to go back to stock
eric e
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Having done 5 light assemblys myslef I honestly don't believe that puting a sticker on the outside is going to hold up...And yes, the light will bleed through on the sides...
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Originally posted by eric e
isn't a sticker on the outside the way the stock ones are done?
eric e
isn't a sticker on the outside the way the stock ones are done?
eric e
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here is a pretty poor pic of some late model rear lights but it does seem to show the colored plastic circle is molded slightly raised and then the unraised section is somehow blacked out
http://groups.msn.com/2wheelsgood/rx...to&PhotoID=632
eric e
http://groups.msn.com/2wheelsgood/rx...to&PhotoID=632
eric e
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you know what's really weird...I have a 1994 R2 and the lights had the plastic circles already raised...however, they were not blacked out... Anyone elses like that? has the circles raised but not blacked out?
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