I don't know why I thought of this today and it would probably look like crap but....

Has anyone thought about covering the chrome area with window tint to get subdue that bright chrome look? I doubt it would hold up with the tint being on the outside but I've seen where people have done the same thing with colored vinyl...

So what do you think?

BTW, I had a 2k before and I didn't like the tinted tails on it because they were too dark in my opinion and blended in with the black car too much.

 

or you could get 2k taillights without the gay amber and paint them body color http://www.frankencar.com/stevesfolder/tails11.jpg

-steve

 

My idea was to open it up (almost impossible to do though) and line the chrome part with CF/vinyl. It'll have an IS300 CF/Clear look which i really dig.

 

2002 tail lamps are damn-near impossible to open up. (emax has 600 bucks worth invested in finding out that tid-bit of info)

 

I'd like to do a complete hybrid taillight conversion. I'd like to put in either the R33 or R34 taillights. Obviously I'll need lots of $$, but my friend's bodyshop should be able to hook it up.

 

i heard he only broke one for like 130 a piece or so and the got some used one for cheap too. 600 damn i'd be ****ed.

 

i don't know if any of you have ever seen it before, but when i go to car shows, i usually see a ricer or two with some nice vinyl work on the headlights. like a smoked vinyl sticker and they lay it around the parts of the headlight that won't affect the beam, in my opinion it looks sweet on some cars. so you could probably do the same to the 2k2 tails.

or what about the titanium edition tails?? i hear they are supposed to be smoked or something, but i have yet to see anything on them.

 

Damn right

Steve I bought a pair of 2000 GLE tails for I think $90, I busted one those after trying the oven heat trick.

Then I bought another GLE tail from a junkard for about $50, I used this tail and the other gLE tail to cut out my half red half clear reflectors (I still have them BTW).

Then I tried a hair drier on both of my stock tails and of course I busted them up too ($150)

Then I bought a heat gun and busted another 2002 tail! Heat gun plus the tails where $220. On the second replacement tail I used a drememl and I actually cut the tail light apart, this method kind of worked but I could never put the tails back together.

So $510 total

Now I know the secret to getting the tails apart, it involves busting one pair of tails to do though . Once I get some spair change together I plan on completing my quest of all red tails.

 

your crazy but i think all red would look good to esp with the body color rings i have. i might try something with that. it willlook skyline esque.

 

Nope, from the pictures I've seen they are exactly like the 2k2's.

 

IMHO the best looking tails are a hybrid of the 2K SE and the 2k GLE/GXE.

Use the smoked charcoal bottom half of the SE tails with the top half of the GLE/GXE tails with the dividing line being the horizontal top of the amber turn signal light. I've made a pair and they look great.

I don't understand why Nissan can't make a decent looking backend on this car to save their souls. They could have done some minor mods to these lights to break up the blocky look but no - they think clears will solve every problem. Instead, they just make the car look ricey.

 

Can you post a picture of that? Thanks.

 

I knew I'd get a request for a pic as soon as I mentioned this. I'll have to get back to you later with one.

 

 

Looks good - this probably works better on a darker color like my Sherwood green or black.

Did you paint these or am I looking at photoshopped images?

 

Where did the bottom half of those lights come from? They don't look as dark as the 2k SE tails, but I can see the carbon fiber pattern so I know they are not 2k2 tails. I would be happy if I could just get the whole tailights to look like the bottom half of the ones in the pics.

 

Sounds like you want 2K SE tails?

 

Hmmm...not sure if that really works for me. Interesting, but I think it just draws more attention to the tails.

 

On the outside??? Hmmm...yeah, I don't think that would work or look good. If you could only get into those sukaz....

I'm actually starting to grow fond of my 2k2 taillights. Although my car is black..not sure if I'd like em on any other color...maybe the artic white.

 

No I had a 2k before. The tinted tails on the 2k's are very dark. The ones in those pics look much lighter.

Oh well, it sounds like its going to be impossible anyway, I guess I'll just learn to love my stock tailights.

 

I found some spray on smoke for lenses here:

http://209.87.151.155/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=VA-3400

$24 buck might be a little high but if it works.....

 

I like the bottom half everyone is referring to. I think that CF looks much better than the 00-01 black,and the 02-03 silver. Anybody try contacting the owner of that car and figure out what they did?

 

i photoshopped what phydeaux described. i was aiming for the smoked 2000-2001 tails on the bottom half, but i guess i made them too light.

 

Oh

 

im sorry, i dont dig it. too much things going on with the lights. you dont know if it should be red or cleared or smoked. doest stream with the look of the car.

 

I agree it looks really weird
But i'm not digging it at the moment