shading/fogging/darkening corner lights
06-06-2005, 10:00 AM
#1
shading/fogging/darkening corner lights
I just did the AE mod on my (95)headlights yesterday. I think it looks awesome, but its obvious that something needs to be done to the corner lights.
i have a can of "nite shades" that i havent used yet and i'm considering shading them but i dont know if i should darken the lense or if there is other options. I dont really care to do the ae mod to the corner lights, i kinda wnat to just darken them like imitating the cefiro look.
i was wondering if anyone had pictures of waht they've done to theirs.
ALSO i was wondering what it would be like if i painted the inside reflector part of the corner light black, instead of the outside lense. Ive got some new amber silverstar corner bulbs in there so it looks pretty tight, i just want the headlight and corner light to match.
thanks.
i have a can of "nite shades" that i havent used yet and i'm considering shading them but i dont know if i should darken the lense or if there is other options. I dont really care to do the ae mod to the corner lights, i kinda wnat to just darken them like imitating the cefiro look.
i was wondering if anyone had pictures of waht they've done to theirs.
ALSO i was wondering what it would be like if i painted the inside reflector part of the corner light black, instead of the outside lense. Ive got some new amber silverstar corner bulbs in there so it looks pretty tight, i just want the headlight and corner light to match.
thanks.
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06-06-2005, 10:18 AM
#6
Originally Posted by sparkyssb
looks good...i think if you shaded the whole outside corner with a tint it would look great with those headlights.
i just dont know if i should shade the lense or the inside reflector.
06-06-2005, 10:40 AM
#8
Originally Posted by alphaerror
im gonna try to do my corners tinted as well, but i dont have clear corners and am wondering, "do i really need to get clear corners in order to get a tinted corner? or if i tint my current ambers is it just gonna look dumb?
i'm not too worried about it because i think with the nite shades you can remove it with rubbing alcohol.
06-06-2005, 10:46 AM
#9
http://photobucket.com/albums/v452/h...0after%20drop/
I blacked out my inner housing. Night shades is a lil difficult if you haven't done it before. The corners are funny because of their angle. Besides if not done right you see cracking on the nightshades.......look at my entire album. I have ambers in there.......
I blacked out my inner housing. Night shades is a lil difficult if you haven't done it before. The corners are funny because of their angle. Besides if not done right you see cracking on the nightshades.......look at my entire album. I have ambers in there.......
06-06-2005, 10:56 AM
#13
Originally Posted by hectorc
http://photobucket.com/albums/v452/h...0after%20drop/
I blacked out my inner housing. Night shades is a lil difficult if you haven't done it before. The corners are funny because of their angle. Besides if not done right you see cracking on the nightshades.......look at my entire album. I have ambers in there.......
I blacked out my inner housing. Night shades is a lil difficult if you haven't done it before. The corners are funny because of their angle. Besides if not done right you see cracking on the nightshades.......look at my entire album. I have ambers in there.......
its hard to see your corners.
i want mine pretty black
06-06-2005, 11:00 AM
#14
night shades is very runny. It is not too difficult to see my corners, if you want, you can do the brighter corner light mod to compensate it. Besides, the corners in my car have very little function because mine don't light up when I put my turn signal on. Yours should light up brighter like Dave Sz's. If you want it pretty black, then your corners won't be visible.
06-06-2005, 11:13 AM
#15
what is the purpose of the corner lights anyhow? i mean, its not a blinker so its not TOO important, right? i can just black it all. i'm not too concerned about the light being bright.
06-06-2005, 11:26 AM
#16
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I did my clearance lights AE style:
Chillin014, your headlights turned out great. It's good that they're still pretty visible on a 95/96.
I think BlueC has his corners completely blacked out. You should ask him how he did it.
Chillin014, your headlights turned out great. It's good that they're still pretty visible on a 95/96.
I think BlueC has his corners completely blacked out. You should ask him how he did it.
06-06-2005, 11:29 AM
#17
Originally Posted by Northern Maxima
I did my clearance lights AE style:
Chillin014, your headlights turned out great. It's good that they're still pretty visible on a 95/96.
I think BlueC has his corners completely blacked out. You should ask him how he did it.
Chillin014, your headlights turned out great. It's good that they're still pretty visible on a 95/96.
I think BlueC has his corners completely blacked out. You should ask him how he did it.
06-06-2005, 11:39 AM
#18
06-06-2005, 11:43 AM
#19
Originally Posted by hectorc
ALSO, did you AE mod the corners?
06-06-2005, 11:51 AM
#20
There is no real way around the white look of the lense. The white is the thickness of the lense to begin with. Look at your lights right now and you will see it. It is more noticeable whan the back housing is black, not when it's chrome. I used the same paint on my headlight, corners, and tails. I did it the same way yiou do the DTM. Oven, peel, sandpaper, primer it, paint it, and re-seal by putting in oven again. It's not difficult. Just time consuming, the better the job the longer it takes.
I have blacked out the headlights on a 99 TL, 3 4th gen Maximas(mine, Dave's, and MaxDaddy98), 4 5th gen Maximas(Maxi113, Aliti19, CustomMaximaSE, and my brother's)
DTM 3 cars (Eckohb's, Maxdaddy98, and Mine)
Soon I will do entire car for Mr Duck, as well my mod.
I have blacked out the headlights on a 99 TL, 3 4th gen Maximas(mine, Dave's, and MaxDaddy98), 4 5th gen Maximas(Maxi113, Aliti19, CustomMaximaSE, and my brother's)
DTM 3 cars (Eckohb's, Maxdaddy98, and Mine)
Soon I will do entire car for Mr Duck, as well my mod.
06-06-2005, 11:58 AM
#22
the tails you don't need to. the front, has fake chrome. I wanted my paint job to stay in place with out running. I wet sanded with 1500 grit sandpaper. It smoothed out the area and I had no bumps, streaks, or runs. Like I said before, if you want a better job done, it takes a lil longer. That step was probably not necessary, but I still do it anyway.......
06-06-2005, 12:04 PM
#24
yeah i gotcha, thanks. I dont htink i'll be sandpapering it, i didnt for the headlights.
but yeah i'm fine with the lense being white like that. I'm glad i discovered this option before i tinted the actual lense itself, i dont know how good that'd look but yours and bluec's corner lights look tight.
i'll do it later, i was a little worried about the plastic lense warping in the oven, maybe i'll use a heat gun.
but yeah i'm fine with the lense being white like that. I'm glad i discovered this option before i tinted the actual lense itself, i dont know how good that'd look but yours and bluec's corner lights look tight.
i'll do it later, i was a little worried about the plastic lense warping in the oven, maybe i'll use a heat gun.
06-06-2005, 12:08 PM
#25
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Originally Posted by TheFink
this may be a newbie question, but how do you do the AE mod?
http://www.vqpower.com/v2/modules.ph...howpage&pid=52
Its not really hard to do. For myself, the hardest part was taking the damn lights off of the car, then putting them back in again. Everybody else finds this easy, so I don't know what I did wrong...
Chillin014, I tried to use a heatgun for my clearance lights but it didn't work too well. The glue is deeper inside the lense so the gun couldn't get to it. I just ended up sticking them in the oven instead and they were fine. They are a little trickier to pry apart though so just be patient.
06-06-2005, 12:09 PM
#26
Originally Posted by TheFink
this may be a newbie question, but how do you do the AE mod?
http://www.vqpower.com/v2/modules.ph...howpage&pid=52
and there is another write up from a guy who just posted a bunch of how to's yesterday.
its slightly different for 95-96 headlights, as opposed to 97-99's, but its the same concept.
06-06-2005, 12:18 PM
#27
Originally Posted by Northern Maxima
Here's a link with a writeup (great website):
http://www.vqpower.com/v2/modules.ph...howpage&pid=52
Its not really hard to do. For myself, the hardest part was taking the damn lights off of the car, then putting them back in again. Everybody else finds this easy, so I don't know what I did wrong...
Chillin014, I tried to use a heatgun for my clearance lights but it didn't work too well. The glue is deeper inside the lense so the gun couldn't get to it. I just ended up sticking them in the oven instead and they were fine. They are a little trickier to pry apart though so just be patient.
http://www.vqpower.com/v2/modules.ph...howpage&pid=52
Its not really hard to do. For myself, the hardest part was taking the damn lights off of the car, then putting them back in again. Everybody else finds this easy, so I don't know what I did wrong...
Chillin014, I tried to use a heatgun for my clearance lights but it didn't work too well. The glue is deeper inside the lense so the gun couldn't get to it. I just ended up sticking them in the oven instead and they were fine. They are a little trickier to pry apart though so just be patient.
06-06-2005, 12:25 PM
#28
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Mine have a *** that was impossible to pop back into place. I ended up unscrewing 6 screws and there are only suppossed to be 4! I didn't want to push too hard where the *** was and break my lenses, so I just had my mechanic reinstall them. They were stressin me out too much! I know that Canadian Maxima's were actually made in Japan, so I'm not sure if they did something different from the US Plants or if I'm just REALLY bad at following instructions!
06-06-2005, 01:46 PM
#31
i got some silverstar 1157 (i think thats the number) bulbs, and those things are FUNKY. expensive, but definently funky. they give a sort of green-orange glare in the day, its weird. i cant decide if i like it or not.
lit up its about the same ammount of funkyness
lit up its about the same ammount of funkyness
06-06-2005, 03:31 PM
#33
Ill get you some pictures in a little while, I'm not home right now.
They are brigt at night. I forgot to take a picture of the stock bulb to see the comparison but I know they are brighter.
Definently more defined in color.
Ill Get some pictures in a lil while
They are brigt at night. I forgot to take a picture of the stock bulb to see the comparison but I know they are brighter.
Definently more defined in color.
Ill Get some pictures in a lil while
06-06-2005, 05:28 PM
#34
hey, i kinda want to paint these things before it gets dark, so i dont know how you feel about a picture after they already have the blacked background on them.
i'll try to do one at a time and get you a picture of it regular though.
i'll try to do one at a time and get you a picture of it regular though.
06-06-2005, 06:40 PM
#36
pictures of the silverstars
you can see, they have a little bit of a greenish color in them. they look a little darker in person, i guess you could compare them to the bumper light since thats lame stock peach color.
they have a nice amber color to them but i've seen PICTURES on here of more amber bulbs, of coarse it could have been the contrast in the color of the headlight (they were blue in the picture) or just the camera taking it to make it look darker.
anyway, here they are. and here's one of how it looks during the day time with the sun shining in it(Before i blacked it) this is the funk i'm talkin about.
here's one of the bulb itself
and lit up
they have a nice amber color to them but i've seen PICTURES on here of more amber bulbs, of coarse it could have been the contrast in the color of the headlight (they were blue in the picture) or just the camera taking it to make it look darker.
anyway, here they are. and here's one of how it looks during the day time with the sun shining in it(Before i blacked it) this is the funk i'm talkin about.
here's one of the bulb itself
and lit up
06-06-2005, 07:47 PM
#37
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northern max i had the same problem with the ***. only way to get it back in is to remove the headlight and but it back in. mine popped out if i adjusted my headlights too far down. as for the corners i think i might do one set AE and one all black if i get ahold of another. i never seen the all black, but it looks hot..
06-07-2005, 02:39 PM
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That *** was a biatch. I posted a question on my headlights and I just got some people calling me stupid. I think they're tricky. Oh well.
That bulb is insane! There are some crazy colors in there - very cool!
That bulb is insane! There are some crazy colors in there - very cool!
06-07-2005, 02:52 PM
#39
so now that i just bought new corner lights i dont know if i like the look of the inside being tinted or the exterior lense...
i melted mine in the oven, i guess i'm going to attempt to repair them just to have an extra set. I chipped part of one, and melted the lense on the other.
i like how eckohb's looked when he had the corner tinted, but his maxima was black, so i donno if it would look good on my maroon. But then again, black looks good on most things so i cant see it really looking BAD.
let me see if i can get a link to eckohb's corner lights (i hope he doesnt get mad)
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i melted mine in the oven, i guess i'm going to attempt to repair them just to have an extra set. I chipped part of one, and melted the lense on the other.
i like how eckohb's looked when he had the corner tinted, but his maxima was black, so i donno if it would look good on my maroon. But then again, black looks good on most things so i cant see it really looking BAD.
let me see if i can get a link to eckohb's corner lights (i hope he doesnt get mad)
edit---
06-07-2005, 02:56 PM
#40
His corners looked fine from a distance. Up close the niteshades had streaks, and cracks. I say this because I have seen thwem up close, and I have messed with nightshades.....