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Interior/Exterior Smoking tail light turn signal. Anyone done this? Photoshop inside.

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Old 08-25-2009, 11:32 PM
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Smoking tail light turn signal. Anyone done this? Photoshop inside.

I was thinking of ordering some of the red/clear taillights, and opening them up and just smoking the white part in the tail light for the turn signal.
Perhaps also smoking the red part very lightly while in there and making the chrome part inside dark also.
I was wondering if anyone had done this and decided to throw together a very crude photoshop of what I thought it would look like.
This doesn't look the best but you get the idea.
Anyone have actual pictures from doing it?

(I don't know whose car I photoshopped just one i found with clear taillights and sorry that the thread title is just long and strange)
 
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Old 08-26-2009, 08:15 AM
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Why not just tint the lens with some LaminX?

Lots of folks have done that.
 
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Old 08-26-2009, 10:37 AM
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Not that I have ever seen. Go for it! Dare to be different.
 
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Not that I have ever seen. Go for it! Dare to be different.
I think I will in october. I'll dig up this thread and post them when I do. I think it would look classier to have the inside done and leave the outer lense clear than the laminx. Even though that looks good as well. I want to go for something else.
 
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I would recommend that while you have the lens off, do the tail light joey mod to get rid of that chrome as well.
 
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I would recommend that while you have the lens off, do the tail light joey mod to get rid of that chrome as well.
I must've forgot to write that but plasti dipping the chrome part is also part of the plan.
 
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Old 08-27-2009, 08:11 AM
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I will be smoking out my taillights in the near future. If i remember ill post pics.
I dont know if im goin to get rid of the chrome frame though.
 
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I did it to my lights, but I tinted the entire thing. Not just the turn signal. Also painted the chrome black.



 
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