Hey guys, this is something cool I thought I would share with everyone. Most people get their headlights painted and their tail lights tinted from the outside. But recently, I had the inside of my tail lights painted to bring out the details and lines that are masked by the all red look.
Here are some preview pictures I have while the inner tails are painted. I should have more pics of them installed hopefully by next week or early the week after next.
yep! i've seen a few q50's with this setup, it looks much better than stock, and really makes the back look a lot more up to date (similar to the revised q70)I hear it's a real pain to take apart the lights and reassemble however..
Tint overly does not compare especially when you're looking at the lights on an angle. It also wont bring out the lines of the tail lights unless they're on.
So is it painted in such a way that only areas where the LED's are at are not painted, or is the whole thing stilled smoked out? Looking modthispny's picture, it appears to be the housing is darkened in area's where the LED design is not at.
I currently have just the 60% overlay with the back up light cut out.
Not much of a difference for the common Joe who doesn't know, but us Q50 owners will immediately see the difference with the darker red.
Looks good! Would like to know more detail regarding how difficult it is to take apart the housings to paint the inside? I thought they were sealed up very tightly from the factory?
You can't bake the tail lights open like the headlights, so it's fairly hard. You essentially have to cut the lens off of the rest of the housing and weld them back together after you paint them.
I bought the tail lights off Keyur last month, LOVE the look. I had vinyl on my previous coupe and after 2 years, it just started to fade and didn't have that clean look. I'm loving this look so far.
With the lights painted like that on the inside is it still street legal? Tickets now for smoked tail lights are up to around $500 but since this isn't covering the whole light I figured it was worth asking. Does anyone know?
Goonz- Love the look, did you vinyl wrap your roof or paint it black? I was considering doing a blacked out look on my graphite shadow Q50 RS. I'm planning to dechrome it and get black 20" rims. I was considering doing the roof too. I got the black grille replacement, do you guys think painting the chrome the body color or matte black to match the vinyl is a better way to go? Thanks for any feedback.
The area's that light up in the tail light are not painted so it will look nothing different than OEM, below is the best pic I can do for now, this was when I first installed them in January.
They reseal them through the use of plastic welding. I?ve had them throughout a NJ winter and all types of other weather, they?ve held up fine. Something as simple as blacking out the housings makes a huge difference for lights like these that have a lot of details!
The price is going to be different now since I was one of the first to have Q50 lights done by JP Customs. You can contact him directly for a price quote if you message him on Facebook.
Hi I recently purchased a 2016 Q50 and was wanting to do this to my tail lights. Can you tell me where I can get these done and how much it costed you?
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