Back in 04 I did the DTM style lights on my 98. The red and black look was nice on a black car. The stock tails look awful on my 99, Stearling Mist (silver/grey). Aftermarket red clears look great, yet the quality and fit usually suffer.

A trip to the hardware store and a $5 light panel was all I needed to clear out the tail lights. After heating the lights in the oven to open them I cut the parts to shape with an oscillating multi tool. I used some hot glue, super glue and silver paint I already had. I did them differently than previous versions and retained the marker light and reflector. I will do the inner to match.

 

Excellent job!

 

I think I would've left the marker lights alone but it still looks good. I actually use my cleared out marker as an additional signal.

 

I kept the marker light and reflector for legal reasons. Also I don't like it cleared with a red bulb that looks mismatched. The way I painted around the reflector does look odd to me. That was a last second decision. The good thing is I have another set of tails to play with at some point.

 

This is now a beautiful car bro. She looks good.

 

How refreshing. A modification thread instead of a "Help me" thread.

Nice job on those tails.

The rectangle around the reflector appears white in these pictures. What was your reasoning for not leaving the border red?

 

It's silver, didn't think about it much. I don't really like it either. I should have only painted the 1/4" or so next to the cleared part. It looked strange all red. The orange lense has a lip/rim around that covers some of the red. Won't matter now anyway since that parts car has red clears. I'll be making a new set exactly how I want.

 

Here they are before the outer lense went on.

 

The fix is one of those chrome 194 bulbs that glows red. Looks good parked, and being used.

 

I don't know if anyone noticed about the clear tales. Amerikaner83 noticed and had a thread about the new clear tales having fitment issues. The tales have to be flush mount and sanded down to fit the cars trunk. Not to hijack the thread, but we talking about clear tales. I know they still are making them new. The question here is has anyone figured out about the problem being resolved on the tales fitment.

 

I know there are fitment issues with aftermarket lights. That is why I wanted OEM parts to customize myself.

What style of lights do you have?

 

I know what you mean. Nothing a dremel can't fix in 5 minutes. Fits perfect afterwards.

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tails>tales

 

I got them from eagle eyes the company from tawian.

 

Oh yeah tails my bad lol.

 

I'm not of any help with the inners not fitting. I've never messed with them myself.


Round 2 tail lights finished. This is what I wanted from the get go. I took the clear lenses out of after market lights and transferred them into OEM lights. Fitment was close, a bit of trimming with a razor blade helped.

 

Muuuuuch better.

 

 

i like round 2 better ! nice ! =)

 

I guess I never put up pictures of the final version installed. So better late than never.

 

Where did you get that tailpipe end piece ? Looks nice.

 

The tail lights look good ... but those wheels ... OMG!

 

The exhaust tip is from Kool Vue. It's on the stock muffler right now.




C'mon, the wheels aren't that bad. I could do way worse.