I PM'ed Housecor last night but Im impatient and thirsty for knowledge. Ok so i tried Home Depot but couldnt find a lense that would work to clear my blinker lights (maybe i didnt look hard enough) so I emailed Tap Plastic and had a link in the email to Housecor's How to for it so they would know what lense i was talking about. I ordered the lights no problem, they seemed like they knew what i was talking about. Upon opening the package and taking out the piece of plastice/lense from bubble wrap i immediately didnt think it was the right light but ive never taken apart my headlights and pictures can be misleading so tell me what u think guys. If you know what kind of lense it is you are using from Home Depot that would help a lot, they didnt seem to think they had any kind of dome light lense i was describing to them. Or if you know what kind of lense you ordered from Tap Plastics that would be much appreciated.


Theres no sphere shape in the lens if you know what im saying. Its just straight across and wont hold any liquid. Does it need to have a sphere shape?


It is nice and frosty but it doesnt seem to be a lense like most are using.

For what its worth, here is what it actually is, from their email back to me: TAP Plastics cuts 3.25" Diameter Circles from 1/4" thick P-95 Matte Finish
Clear Acrylic for the "Frosted" look or 1/4" Clear Acrylic for the "Clear"
look.

 

hmm.. i dont have those headlights nor have i ever done it,.. but from reading stuff in the past,.. i dont think thats it,.. i think ive seen some poeople use the replacement lenses for outdoor lights, like um.. garden lights or whatever they are... cant think of the brand, and then they dremel them down ....

 

yup
i used clear lenses for outdoor lights

 

i think malibu changed the number, i think it's lv-500 now

 

those are the frosted ones. im not sure if you have to dremel them, but they look really thick. if you want the home depot one. go to the gardening lights section in home depot or lowes. the one i bought came with housing and i had to dremel it out. the lens will look just like the lens above your blinkers. i dont know the part number, but i knew that one was it because of the way the lens looked. good luck finding them.

 

Yeah, I'm not sure if Malibu lighting changed their item number or not, but when I did mine about 2 years ago, the item number was M11P2 which I found in Home Depot's outside lighting department. When I did mine, I made sure the lens lined up with the courtesy light lens above it. If you look closely, the "groove" lines on the courtesy lamp runs slightly angled. Do the same with the blinker lens so that it doesn't appear crooked. This way, it gives it more of a custom look. Here is a pic of mine installed on the car.

 

You can just leave it out and get some Chrome turning signals.

 

Thanks for all your input and help guys. I didnt try the outdoor or gardening section for lights. Looks like ill be returning these and making another visit to Home Depot tomorrow to try and find these Malibu lenses.

 

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2214459/1
the part number for the light is on this link

 

here this one has more detail than mine:
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/695690/5

 

Sweet. I appreciate it dafertilizer.

 

+1 I did mine last summer and I got the malibu lights from the outdoor lighting section, lol how could you not check there?

 

Haha good question. Well after talking to a few employees there that werent helpful i just got frustrated and left and figured i could get it from Tap Plastics. They all said nope, we dont have anything like that sorry. I found a bunch of flood lights but the lenses were all thick glass that wouldnt be able to be cut w/ a dremmel. I should have been more persistent though.

 

thats what I did minus the chrome bulbs
Gonna get those soon though.

 

Can you please take a close up of your light so we can see what it looks like without the lens.

Thanks

 

To the op...if you can't find the lights at Home Depot I have a spare set from when I did my lights. If you want them just let me know.

 

ok thanks. I appreciate it. I just finished all my finals so i finally have some time to work on the max now. Ill let u know later on today if i cant find them at home depot.

 

I got in touch with Malibu and ordered the lenses directly from them. I Googled them to find a supplier and had to try a few times to get someone who could help. The other places I tried could only get what they carried and couldn't order anything else.

I tried the Tap Plastic lense too. When I saw what they were I returned them. It's just a piece of plexiglass cut into a circle. Probably $1.00 worth of material and it doesn't even match the rest of the lights. You may have to search to get the Malibu lights but it's worth it.

 

hey i made a thread like this couple weeks ago and someone posted an email they got from tap plastics

should help and heres my thread in case your wondering http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=518919

 

Here's mine. Blinker lense removed, no lense installed.

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=518108

 

Everyone i explained it to at home depot responded with, "wait, what are you trying to do?" and then "I don't think you can do that". It was kind of annoying...

 

http://www.northernmalibulights.com/...age%20wire.htm

 

I left mine out. Just have the bulb exposed .Looks good to me.

I blacked out my housing today and ill post up some pics if you wanna see how it all looks

 

 

btw dremel is ur friend and i'll post a picture up of that lens i used from the homo depot

 

btw if u need a set im actually doing a set for a local maxima guy i can make one to fit urs while im at it if ur interested lmk won't be expensive or anything

 

Thats my post, dont use it. The pics in original post are what u'll get.

 

Crispykid, i hadnt slept in 3 days so i had to catch up today. I woke up about an hour ago so ill get back to u tomorrow if i cant find them at home depot.

 

thats what i did, but mine is glossy, and i only did they outer part, left the part next to the headlights stock.

 

my turn signal area's orange lense was replaced by the projector lense from an acura integra. came out pretty good and kinda spreads the blinker light a bit more. also gives a funny looking round output if you're close to a wall lol

 

Alright i found the lenses at home depot, the part number is still the same: ML11P2. Thanks for all your help guys, i really appreciate it.

 

who was the supplier ???IM IN DESPERATE NEED OF those lenses! lol
cOULD YOU POSSIBLY LEAVE THE CONTACT INFO

 

You don't have to use a specific lens. Just so long as it's plastic and oversized so you can cut it down to size. If it's concave in shape then better, if not then NO big deal.

I got mine off of a curb light. Worked out great.

 

I just bought mine from Home Depot part number ML11P2 for $10. worked great. Looks even better!

 

what!!!! i cant find them, at any of my local home depots, ill look some more. maybe one of the associates was too lazy to go up top, and pull some more down.

But does any one know of an online source anywhere?

 

This place has them.
From post #22.

 

When removing the lense from the (malibu) Flood Light do you just pry? or what? I just dont want to break my nice lenses.

 

I just drained my blinker fluid. Ha Ha I had to say it. With the malibu lenses you trace the orange piece out and cut with a dremel then fine tune it to fit.

 

The first time I tried this mod I actually pried the lense before dremeling. BAD idea. Got one off fine, but when I went to pry off the second lense it had a hairline crack in it. So I spent another $10.60 getting a second set lol.

Just sharpie and dremel. Should take an hour or so for dremeling and smoothing it out. Cut out side of the sharpie line and then with the dremel sanding drum sand up to the line. That way it will be slightly larger and you can test fit. Sand off any excess and use 1 minute epoxy to set it.

Learn from my mistakes I've done this mod enough times haha

 

awsome, thanks guys.