Rafee2k9

So I tinted my tail lights a couple months ago and love the look on my NBP tl. Then the other day, i got a crazy idea to cut a design onto the tints. I got bored and drew some different designs and hated them all except for one. now i dont know if this has been done before or if it is considered a taboo or if its going to be butt ugly, but i just wanted to get some feedback on what people think before i go cutting up my tints. thanks in advance

Here is my car





Here is the design. Note, the cut-out part of the tint goes over the LEDs in the brake lights cause i thought it would look better and the lights would shine brighter.

Rafee2k9

no thoughts?

t3hanarchist

i got it.....


DECEPTICON EMBLEM!!!!!! LIKE THE DODGE RAM TAILS

if you are down with this idea i think it would look tight if you did like the 08 TL tails leave the white area showing and cover all the red

anyways, i tried this on my headlights, realize that cutting your tint against the contour of the lighting will create different sh ades in your tail lights, which gets annoying,

Rafee2k9

haha you know, i actually considered that for a good 2 minutes. just temporarily, but how awesome would it be to have a decepticon car
i probably would if it wasnt for the different shades of light. The design i have above is cut out so the leds arent behind any tint though. wouldnt that make it all one shade over the red parts and one shade over the tinted areas?

alexSU

iTrader: (3)

i cant see pictures at work...damn

ballinfizzle89

iTrader: (6)

no

TonemanTLS

Naw man leave it alone it looks awesome smoked, maybe if you had the 07-08 tails maybe but i wouldn't imo

dwb993

iTrader: (13)

Interesting idea, but I'm unsure of the design. It appears to be cutting the turn signal in two, which may not look right.
On another note---OP, I work for Hopkins, too. I'm at Mt Washington, but find myself occasionally at Homewood or East Baltimore. I will have to keep my eyes open for your ride!

blkaspec

i purchased mine with the cutout, but you could do something similiar...

Trew

iTrader: (1)

It doesn't look terrible... Do it and see what it looks like. you can always rip them off if they don't look good.

Rafee2k9

Yea but im not too worried about the turn signals. and thats awesome, im actually a student at the homewood campus. ill keep my eyes peeled and maybe well run into each other at some point or another

Rafee2k9

nicceeee, i really like that design. i liked the smoked out tail lights on mine but they just seem a little plain. do you have any other pictures of the lights from the back with the lights off?

i think im gonna go ahead and try it out and see how it goes. ill post pics at some point to show how it turns out

blkaspec

blkaspec

Rafee2k9

wow i really like that design. i dont like completely smoked out, i feel like there needs to be some contrast. i was considering just cutting mine out to look like yours because it looks so good. then i went and opened my photo editing program and had a little fun and i think im gonna go ahead and try out my original design. this design really grew on me, but opinions are welcome

as a token of my appreciation blkaspec, I did it on your car too if you wanna know what it would look like lol. I like it with the lip spoiler because it looks classy, almost in a weird way like the newer bmws. I like it with a regular spoiler too because the curves of the design match the curves of the spoiler.

Rafee2k9

okay so i think the lights in the last picture are way too orangy. i think this one is more accurate

dave_ramkumar

iTrader: (5)

i think they look better the normal way

Rafee2k9

okay okay one last post. i forgot this was an old picture before i debadged it so i had to take the badges out. opinions welcome!!

Rafee2k9

yea i know, it doesnt look like a TL so much with that design. but i figure it looks different and i can just make it a temporary thing if i dont like it. 10 bucks for tail light tint isnt so bad

88hybrid

Ney... keep them Black.

leedogg

i saw a cutout once, it was a simple 1-2 inch bar through the middle of the upper portion, sorta like this all the way across:

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Didnt look that bad actually. If I had tinted tails, I might have tried something like that

zeezz

it's alright but it reminds me of one of the prior gen civic lights.

rockyfeller

iTrader: (6)

Looks kinda Dodgeish to me but that is just my opinion. Just buy a cheap $15 set on ebay and experiment.

If you have an idea on your head it will always play with your head. You never know till you try. Sometimes someone has your same idea but actually does it before you do in real life and you wonder why you didn't act on your idea first. Some mods look better in your head and when you try it you realize it doesn't look right. They are SO many mods I experimented with and never saw it installed in my car because I deemed them to be whack. (Good example is my anthracite headlight rings or my carbon fibered rear A-spec mod) Other times you might think it may not come out right and it come out better than you expected (example would be my carbon fiber roof spoiler, in-dash DVD mod etc etc.)

The idea has to materialize into reality. If you don't like em, chuck em. But you don't know till you try. That's how all the great AZine mods were born.

LessisBestmakingendsmeet

I never was a big fan of black out tints on black cars unless its some 500hp monster or something.....thanks for sharing though

Rafee2k9

I really appreciate this bit of enlightenment. i was actually dismayed wheni found that its EXTREMELY hard to cut tint thats already on the lights
surrounded by the negativity of most of the responses, i didnt really feel like it was worth it anymore. but you just motivated me. im gonna order another set of tints and cut it before i apply the tint and see how it goes. thanks for the push

Rafee2k9

so yesterday i dug around for my exacto knife and finally got to satisfying my curiosity. it wasnt that hard doing it this time, i was done in about 45 minutes. anyways, heres how it came out


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sorry for the crappy pictures and dirty car, ill have more pictures up and a cleaner car once i put on my roof spoiler tomorrow or the day after. anyways, im personally really digging the new look. but all thoughts and opinions are welcome, just dont be a dick

Trew

iTrader: (1)

I like it

CarrieLynn

iTrader: (2)

you would

swoosh

iTrader: (5)

man guess am thinking out loud....

i got the darkest road blocker tints from BM and cut out the brake light portion (was crazy tough) and put em on.....liked em for 3 months and then took it off....just today i saw blue bat mobile or some like that is selling it LOL !!!!

KUDOS to the new design but am not feeling it way too much....i liked the design, not the result....

in your final pictures i think u just cut the edges very bulky...i think some like this would have been better


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you can make it skinnier without bulging it

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or straighten the bottom out !!!

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alexSU

iTrader: (3)

idk i think the all red stock look is sexy! +1 on creativity though

wahshi

iTrader: (4)

+1 on creativeness.. as long as you like them thats all that matters

blkaspec

like this

d-townhakuzo

I agree with keeping them pure stock...

swoosh

iTrader: (5)

thats how mine looked....they were cut at home and not laser cut....

i took her in the car wash recently and one of the tints peeled off....and i feel in luv with the all red tail light, so them both off !!!!