mrphantast1c

has anyone painted theirs to match the body color? curious to see what that'd look like.. i tried searching but couldn't find anything.. thanks in advance

brettallica

If you did that, wouldn't you block the light output, thereby rendering the side marker completely innefective? Many people have tinted them; I'm not super-big on tinted lenses of any kind so I haven't done that.

One thing I've contemplated doing, like way in the future, and it's only a concept at this point, is removing both sets of side markers and having no lights there at all. Not sure how it would look exactly, and it's definitely a permanent mod, so I'd have a lot to digest before going through with it. My guess is that I'd probably never get the balls to do a mod like that, but I have been thinking about it.

brettallica

That last post of mine really got me thinking, so I threw this together really quick:



No side markers.

mrphantast1c

that looks interesting.. i don't think it looks that bad

i asked if anyone painted it because i kinda felt the rear one was a lil redundant.. most cars have only the side marker in front no? so i didnt think it'd be that big of a deal to block out the light in the rear

thanks for the photoshop

brettallica

No problem. I think if you do anything, you'll want to just remove the lights altogether and then fill in the hole. That would look much cleaner than painting over the lights, at least in my opinion.

aznbenz07

i don't know brettallica, just fix your damn side markers lol. I know your having trouble with the shorting out markers like I might soon(knock on wood) or leave them in but disconnect them so they don't light up.

Jesstzn

A guy over in the VW forums actually painted his tails and they came out good and functional. So the side markers should work.

darksom1

^

brettallica

aznbenz07, that actually has nothing to do with my side marker issues. I had been thinking about that mod for a long time because I'm not a huge fan of extra lights on a car. The TL's look pretty good, though, so I enhanced them with the LED mod.

SteveP66

brett - you could always send them out to be chromed....LOL

brettallica

I think somebody is jealous that he couldn't get his grill chromed...

SteveP66

LOL..... Still working on it.... hasn't been warm enough to do anything yet. It's been raining all day - and it will be for the next 3-4 days

brettallica

Maybe THIS will inspire you to get your act together!

SteveP66

Oh just rub it in some more....LOL.

I can't even think about another mod until I do what I have backed up already.
The chrome job looks good.........soon enough I'll be thinking about it again