since my front end still a wreckage, and i need to replace those clear corners along with my front-end at bodyshop soon, mind as well trying out new things.

i don't know if anyone on the org. has done smoking the clear corners and maybe even the altezzas. i don't know how it'll turn out, but i'm gonna give it shot.

but before i smoke them, i just wanna know what you guys think how it'll turn out.. or :??

 

let me know how the altezzas.

 

check out geo1317's clear corners, they're smoked.

 

looks slick...

i wonder how it'll turn out for a black maxima... i'm gonna give it a try. did he use any coat? or he just went straight ahead burning the lense?

 

mad dhan did this a while ago, atleast for the bumper lights.

http://www.vqpower.com/v2/modules.ph...howpage&pid=49

 

oh darn i thought i can jus light the fire and smoke them... i guess i need coating...

hm...


::thinks::

hmm.... i donno.... maybe....

 

"Smoked" lights does not mean literally smoked with smoke from a fire. LOL.

P.S. Your altezzas will be ugly no matter what you do to them.

 

lol...you never know...

P.S. if there's some mass production on 95-96 for red/clear, then the ugly altezza won't exist.

 

you should "smoke" your altezzas...

 

i will definetly "smoke" them out my altezzas when 95-96 red/clear are being mass produced...

 

i actually meant smoke as in set them on fire as stated above me. I just think altezzas on a maxima is like...trying to make it an oversized civic...

sorry , not trying to crap your thread. Whatever works the best for you

 

smoked Altezzas look good...

 

metallic97gxe , got any other pics of that car's rear end with those smoked altezzas? it looks ok there, but id like to see the entire back end with them.

 

Check my homepage. I did a write up of how to do this for the corners and there are pics.

 

I smoked my front clears and my rear lights - not too much, didn't want to get in trouble with the cops. I used a product called "night shade". Pretty happy with the results, but the results were matt, so I sprayed a clear gloss over after. Later I found out Testors makes a smoke that goes on glossy. Looks good on my Neptune blue max. I'd be careful not to go too dark. Yeah, I know, some VWs and others are real dark, but what if you get to a light just as it changes, you hit the brakes hard and some moron behind you rear-ends you. His fault right? What if he says "Yeah, but I didn't see his brake lights - see how dark they are?". A little research shows this isn't stock, not approved by the DOT when the car was made? So my lights aren't black the way I'd like, but a few shades darker than stock. Says right on the can of Night Shade "for off road use only... Looks good though.

 

i knew some one would point to my car.

i actually opened them up and painted the chrome housing with black paint so its similar to the DTM.