Modifying Rear Lenses

[jason_l]

im planning on cutting up my rear fog lights (i have the clear ones)and spraying the chrome part black!

just wanted to know if anyone has done this and what glue did they use to put them back together, also has anyone done it to the main rear lights?

thanks.

jason

[Scorpion]

Silicone.

Dobedo took his apart and colour coded his. B)

[LennyLexus]

Silicone.

Dobedo took his apart and colour coded his. B)

the rear fogs too?!

[Bazza]

Silicone.

Dobedo took his apart and colour coded his. B)

the rear fogs too?!

my rear fogs came colour coded

rear lights were cut apart and then siliconed back together

not the easiest job to get apart, as it is a case of cutting through the plastic lens,.....one little mistake and there knackered :duh:

front fogs were seperated using the heat method, then heated up again to stick back with a little extra silicone to seal up

rear lights and colour coded fogs

front fogs

[LennyLexus]

Silicone.

Dobedo took his apart and colour coded his. B)

the rear fogs too?!

my rear fogs came colour coded

should have saw that coming :duh: :duh:

[SteveAudioX]

Unless you use the FEIN multi tool :winky:

[BESTY]

Unless you use the FEIN multi tool :winky:

does that mean you dont need to heat them up using that steve ;)

[TheDon]

UKAZN (alex) modded his rear lights a bit more than that! lol.

He removed the plexiglass cover, sprayed them matt black, only replacing the glass over the indicator/reversing lights. then using LED's had them as the brake lights etc. looked great having a 3D look to the rears and unlike all the nova's!

How about we get a "lexus light" company to make something different for us!!!

[jason_l]

silicon it is!

thanks guys and gals!

im looking at putting the fogs and rear clusters to black, might have to have a test on some old ones first!!!!

jason

[Bazza]

Unless you use the FEIN multi tool  :winky:

does that mean you dont need to heat them up using that steve ;)

the rears should not be attempted to be heated up !!!

use the fein tool to cut the plastic

the fronts will seperate with heat

[Bazza]

UKAZN (alex) modded his rear lights a bit more than that! lol.

He removed the plexiglass cover, sprayed them matt black, only replacing the glass over the indicator/reversing lights. then using LED's had them as the brake lights etc. looked great having a 3D look to the rears and unlike all the nova's!

How about we get a "lexus light" company to make something different for us!!!

stories are no good without pictures

cmon... get alex to stop being shy :D

[Scorpion]

I was surprised that you didn't put LED's in your ones Barrie.?

[TheDon]

UKAZN (alex) modded his rear lights a bit more than that! lol.

He removed the plexiglass cover, sprayed them matt black, only replacing the glass over the indicator/reversing lights. then using LED's had them as the brake lights etc. looked great having a 3D look to the rears and unlike all the nova's!

How about we get a "lexus light" company to make something different for us!!!

stories are no good without pictures

cmon... get alex to stop being shy :D

i would do but i think he is worried about people copying him at the min, lol.

did look so different tho! would love a full set of LED rear lights like the E46 M3!

Will see if i can coax a photo outa him

[ukazn]

here we go then. let me know what ya think peeps.

[SteveAudioX]

What do they look like ON. lights on that is...

[whitie]

Looks real nice.... They musta taken ages to do!!

[TheDon]

they look good, a few more tweeks to do i think but we have talked about a few ways of getting more light out!

they realy look goof tho on the car its self, gives the rear corners a completely different feel

[ukazn]

the lights are not bright enough. gonna buy some brighter leds and that should do the trick. Just depends when i can be bothered to do it.

[TheDon]

we still need to take a mold of the red light part and make a recessed well for each of the led's. that way after its been plastic chromed it will reflect more of the red light i think.

[Scorpion]

You need more LED's to get the desired affect,rings of LED's wont have the same effect as closely grouped ones.

Alex wheres the rest of the perspex.?

[ukazn]

I decided to chop it up and only use it to cover the indicator and reverse lights. the 3d effect on the rear lens.

[Scorpion]

Very nice though.

[TheDon]

looks even better on the car!!!

Definately needs to be done tho! come on alex, bring em over and we will finish them off!

[Scorpion]

They would look much better with the whole lense on,i like the idea but not the 3-d effect,i think you'll need a min 60 LED bulbs.

Let us see the pics when they are done though.

[ukazn]

i've already got about 30 odd leds in there but i reckon i gonna need a whole lot more and that are a whole lot brighter. thing is i may need to find another set of rears to get the red lens bit out so i can drill new wholes for the extra leds.