how many of you guys have smoked taillights? do you think spraying the whole lens black looks better than just the red section? give me your opinions

 

if you tint your tail lights, i will crash into you, and you will pay for my damages.


thats my opinion

 

hahah you don't like them that much?

 

well they're illegal and in my opinion, ghetto and ugly. I light smoke tinted the white, but that's as far as I would go.

 

well its not that i dislike the look, its just that the brake lights are harder to see in the daytime and i HATE that. plus they are illegal and if you do get rear ended, the other person can fight it and you might end up having to pay your deductible even though it wasnt your fault. ive heard of things like that happening before.

but if you do what Tequila did with the smoked turn signals, i think it looks decent. i was thinking of doing the same a while ago.

 

I tinted the red part black.
Never got pulled over for it.

 

I like them lightly smoked. And if you use thinned out black paint instead of VHT nightshade, the light can shine through better.. I completely blacked out my taillights on my accord and the brake lights were still really bright. But i got tired of the look so I took them off and got another set and just tinted the red portion to a maroon color. That's the best shade IMO. I plan to do my 02-03 Tails the same way in the future...

 

dont like it... acura got them right from the factory.

 

^This. The 02-03 tails are clean and perfect as is (minus not being LED).

 

man I'd kill for a custom LED set up!

 

^ someone has done it on the forum, it looks really good

 

i like the 02-03 50/50 look... so i kept that look n just tinted the red... to each their OWN ....i like it..

 

Yeah man, this thread is stupid... It's about personal preference...
Would you wear a blue shirt or a red shirt? You're going to get 50/50 answers.

 

Tint the Red !

 

No need to eff with the taillights. Good as it is already.

 

Everyone tints tails. Played out.... agree with the Acura got them right the first time comment.

 

personally I like the look of tinted tails. I went full black with mine and havent regretted it.. each to their own though

 

does anybody sell smoke tail lights for the tl,dont feel like tintin them!

 

imo, im not a fan of smoked out lights and i've seen it done before on our cars where the entire light was smoked out, also to where only the red part was smoked out and i still didn't like it. dont to it, non smoked out lights are perfectly fine.

 

can somone find it n post it!!!

 

i tinted the red only with light smoke and it works for me everybody has their own opinion so do what you like

 

This one?
https://acurazine.com/forums/2g-tl-1999-2003-98/led-tail-lights-small-problem-592767/

By the way, I used to have my tails tinted with the spray for about 1.5 years...never got rear ended or pulled over. The spray tint is made for the red to illuminate through the black. I took it off now though because I do like the clean OEM look better. Do what you want though...but do it yourself, it was too easy to pay someone else.

 

Ewww^^^

 

dont go completely black, thats just gay.

instead. take out the whole light.mask it up good. and do vvery light brown coats over the whole thing. start off slow you can alweays go darker but going lighter is a pain

 

Acura got it right the first time. I think the tinted tail lights make it look like a cheaper, more ghetto car.

 

cheaper??.. how so..lol..aside from acura..brand new infinitis and lexus be smoking there tails...

so this car looks cheap?

 

ohh sooo cheap...

 

Maybe if you buy the pre-cut tint from eBay and you don't know what you're doing so there are tons of bubbles.

 

that looks gorgeous! Now I know how far I wanna go with my taillights too, thanks

 

I think tinting just the red part looks really nice but it depends on your car color too. I had an AM so the colors went nicely together. You have a SSM or LGM so I would just leave it stock.

 

i wish i can black out my taillights tho and leave the white reverse white i got a silver tl so that shit will look pretty clean

 

that G and Cayenne would look so much better with the standard red tails...

if its not a batmobile.. it needs contrast... tail lights provide contrast.

 

I've died and gone to heaven!!!!

 

I did mine lightly on the red part only, I like how it looks

 

^^
Yep thats about as far as I would go.
But IDK how to keep the gloss look?
VHT is a nice shade and all but I dont like how it looks matte and kind of ghetto.

 

Well that is VHT in my pic above and it's pretty glossy