has anyone purchased these yet? if so how does it look at night with the lights on?

-Jay

 

They looks good but Custommaxima is like Stealer.. they will steal your money... get the clear ones and paint them... there is a product in which you can do it yourself, but it is your chice....

 

or you can paint the OEM ones with black gloss enamel like me and bluesbrekr did.....save $ and it looks better than the CM ones.

 

why do they only sell the fronts? if you want them to match, you are gonna have to spray the rears anyway, so you might as well just do what irish and blues did.

 

Especially if you have already bought the clear ones for 30-40 bucks, why would you pay that much more for some smoked ones. Paint them, or what I may do is put lamin-x on them when I do my taillights.

 

i've tried spraying my fronts once as an experiment and i got a lot of dripping. maybe i should try to spray it from the inside.....i just wanted to see if anyone purchased these yet and is the light actually visible... thanks for the input.

-Jay

 

i talked to jose at cm and he said the rear ones are in production right now.

 

but for the time being the smoked front with the factory red in the rear looks nice i think.

 

Yep. I think so too. I'm only getting front clears. I love the white and red look.

 

I painted mine, two coats in the rear, three up front. No drips, nice contrast with body colour(i painted mine green, but they came out looking smoked because the car is green) but they look great. If you can't see the lights, put 168 bulbs in, they are interchangeable with 194s, but they are a little brighter, 3.0 candlepower as opposed to 2.0. And yeah CM is kinda tricksy........i have been there, they aren't too knowlegeable, but because they are down the street they're convenient, even though they have nothing in stock, i was lucky to get my test pipe when i needed it. It took them like 6 weeks to get my Greddy Evo2.

 

But yours are true black. And Bluesbreaker used nightshades paint btw. The CM smoked corners are more smoked looking.(not jnust black spraypaint.)

 

Yeah, is there any way to paint them without blacking them out completely? Do you just use less coats? And, if you want the "smoked" look, is it better to paint the clears, or can you get the look with the stock lights?

 

Also, 44 bucks is a little steep for two tiny bumper lights. I'd much rather do it myself.