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Old Apr 16, 2009 | 03:49 PM
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Exclamation Re: Tail lights
Has anybody successfully opened up their tail lights without cutting them open?!!!

Baked them twice and...nada!

Need help ASAP.

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Old Apr 16, 2009 | 03:56 PM
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maybe this will work http://www.newcougar.org/forums/exte...eadlights.html
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Old Apr 16, 2009 | 03:59 PM
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Thanks for the link but it seems almost like they are completely sealed or like one piece.

Because if an oven doesn't work...I don't see how a heat gun would.

I don't know what to do other than cut them open...

Maybe I just have a really stubborn set...

But I'm about to cut them open in about an hour with a dremel.
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what ever you do just be real careful.....
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Old Apr 16, 2009 | 04:04 PM
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Fo realz...I got another Azine member helping me out.

He's had experience doing this on Maximas but I have not.

Just kind of worries me...
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They are my extra set of tail lights so I am feeling a bit more adventurous.
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let me borrow that dremel noah
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why you opening them up?
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Old Apr 17, 2009 | 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by aznboi2424
let me borrow that dremel noah
I'm borrowing some else's...

Originally Posted by evan03CL
why you opening them up?
Can't tell...

More details will be coming soon!

I promise...it's one of my secret mods.



Well...it was a success!

A few bits is what it took but it worked.

Will post some pics of us cutting them open later on tonight.

What a beotch though!
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are you going to put halo ccfls in them?

THE USES ARE ENDLESS!
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Nope.
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Old Apr 17, 2009 | 01:22 AM
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i know, i forgot the red text.
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Ha ha.
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I'm borrowing some else's...
darn!
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Did you cut or did they finally come apart with the baking?
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No...those are cut open.

Total beotch!
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altezza conversion!!!
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Originally Posted by nf3d0149ab
No...those are cut open.

Total beotch!
oh ok and yea i bet
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altezza conversion!!!
FTW
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hmmm, possibly trying to clear out everything , like some of people on the 3rd Gen's TL
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^?? pics of what youre talking about please
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hmmm, possibly trying to clear out everything , like some of people on the 3rd Gen's TL
like these? idk about that
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it seems like it would be tough to "clear" the tails.....

you would either have to find new plastic to overlay on them....or

well...i think that the red in the lense isn't just a "layer" so you couldn't remove it
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^something wrong here guys...
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LED's ??
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yup, my guess is that hes putting in leds where the reflector is
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This is what I'm talking about....check this thread

same pic as above but everything cleared

https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-photograph-gallery-96/dopes-custom-tails-pics-inside-715838/

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^ looks good
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he is topping off his blinker fluid
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^ ding ding ding!

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god that TL tail light mod is awesome....
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, The possibilities!
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that TL light looks
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holy shit! INFINITE water level?! Thats like...A LOT! (I would hate to see his utilities bill!)
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holy shit! INFINITE water level?! Thats like...A LOT! (I would hate to see his utilities bill!)
i just laughed out loud in my Econ lecture
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Originally Posted by nf3d0149ab
^ ding ding ding!

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