I'm thinking about tinting my tail lights. Anyone have images of their 2nd gen TSX with this look? And how much did it cost?

yup, several cars have it, try searching "tint tail lights" or go through the photo section

i tried doing it once, failed at it. might try again

I smoked my tails for $100 for the 4 taillights. I have seen them for cheaper but this is also Canadian rip-off pricing as well.

opboarding and kowloonsniper has their tails smoked. See pics below.

The tint I got is subtle, and I bet 99% of people will not see the difference, but I can tell the difference.

Before:

After:


opboarding:



kowloonsniper:

from my last year set up

I bought smoke vinyl for mine and put it on myself. Mine looks about the same shade as vinny's, I think it was like 92% or something. I bought a large sheet of it for $15 and put it on myself.

Heres another picture, the one above of mine has a some glare.

LaminX for me lightest smoke available. Somewhere in my build thread 2/3 pages back too lazy to find it atm...which may get a new up date soontimes dun dun duuuun.

$100 for front and rears? Eeeps I guess I got a good deal when it was $50 for me in Toronto

It was sort of an impulse buy when I was at autolinks in Scarborough. Was originally going to get my door-cups 3M'd and switched to tinting the tails.

Don't regret it though, just needed to work some OT to make up the difference...but yes out of the above I am the sucker.

My attempt... Need to get them redone

Autolinks is that place anygood? Never heard of them. East side I usually think of Speedstar or Nextmod or APH

For formula one pinnacle ceramic tints they were the best price and most recommended. So that is the reason I went there.

Good shop, and good service.

james_and7 - You thinking of lightly smoked or going for the blacked out look.

I had mine tinted from laminx a while back.



then reverse cut out.

^^^was that the precut laminx? how was it to install?

Thanks guys.

I'm looking to lightly smoke it like Vinny's. My car isn't black so I just want to cut down the contrast between the dark body colour and tail lights. Local tinting place wants to charge me $160 ($40 for each tail light) oh and then $20 for the reflectors. When I asked how much longer it would take to do 4 instead of 2, they said 5 minutes. Ya...that''s worth me paying double.

So clearly I haven't done anything yet.

pre cut was really easy actually, and it's not that cheap shit, it's very forgiving when trying to form it. It actually helped when I took it off because I cut around my turn signals and used the cut out to get the right shape for my red overlays.

In hindsight I would have gone with the pre-cut if I knew the amount of savings I could of had.

I think I got some reasonable prices from 3M trimline, and it seems there is one in Vancouver - try giving them a call.

I believe they have a charge of $25 per square foot, so I would assume with 3 sq. ft you might be able to get everything you need done - tails, reflectors etc.

3M Trim-Line 604-985-7058

I offer several variations of taillight overlays for the tsx . Email me if interested .

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