Q: Clear tail lights - Page 2

Duffman · 29-01-2005, 08:41 PM

If you made the bit clear and the light use to take a clear bulb for the orange indicator... wouldnt that mean that a orange bulb wouldn't fit the socket which took the clear bulb?
Though nothing a bit of force couldnt fix. Maybe its different in the e-series but i know its like that in the au's.

trick_xd · 29-01-2005, 09:15 PM

i have been wanting clear tail lights in my EL for a long time now and was ****ed at no one doing it so i started it my self
with a hole saw i cut a piece of red and orange (1 1/2 inch ) then smashed out all the lens , used a old bar heater to bend 1.5mm clear perspek and whirth glued the stop-tail red and orange blinker into it later i thought stupid me just use a vk commadore blinker.. well it leaks a bit to much 4 my likeing (and the cops) even with a good sealer around it. but i still want them so i went back and started again after i asked around at the summernatts and they told me they would not make any to suit so looks like if you want them you got to do them your self

LUXO_8 · 29-01-2005, 10:13 PM

woah all that trouble.
you do realise that you could have fitted EF tail lights, which have a clear indicator!

or do you mean the fooly ricer styles full clear light??

NC_Steve · 29-01-2005, 10:34 PM

mmmmm clear !!! Will post some pics soon of them on the car. Just need to buy the orange bulbs.

LUXO_8 · 29-01-2005, 10:36 PM

steve you sly dawg.

i will give you some globes and holders if you help me to do my indicators.
i tried to get them apart but couldnt

Psycho Chicken · 29-01-2005, 10:44 PM

Just a thought, how well is the light going to refract from the globe without that orange piece in there?

NC_Steve · 29-01-2005, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by MADNC_8

steve you sly dawg.

i will give you some globes and holders if you help me to do my indicators.
i tried to get them apart but couldnt

I didn't take mine apart. I simply smashed up the orange lens very carefully inside the light and then used needle nose pliers to brake up the lens further so it can fit through the globe socket hole. Here are some more pics. Madnc if you need a hand let me know.

LUXO_8 · 29-01-2005, 10:54 PM

perfectly well rob
the reflector is silver painted, and is staggered to reflect light out, all the orange does is change the colour from white light to orange light.

if you put an orange globe in, it will reflect orange light just as well - thats all they did for the new monaro's exposed orange globe

LUXO_8 · 29-01-2005, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by NC_Steve

I didn't take mine apart. I simply smashed up the orange lens very carefully inside the light and then used needle nose pliers to brake up the lens further so it can fit through the globe socket hole. Here are some more pics. Madnc if you need a hand let me know.

well bugger me, that easy eh!

i might have to have a go tomorrow

looks like you still have a few bits of orange plastic in there - give em a really hard shake mate

NC_Steve · 29-01-2005, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MADNC_8

well bugger me, that easy eh!

i might have to have a go tomorrow

Yep took me 30 minutes per light. But don't know if the same method can be used for E series lights.

Yeah the pic on the car is just a test fit. I washed all the crap out after the pic.

Psycho Chicken · 29-01-2005, 11:56 PM

**** it, I'll give it a crack tomorrow!

har har har crack.

Duffman · 30-01-2005, 11:29 AM

You could just get an AU then you have several rice lights to choose from.

Though for an E-eseries couldnt you find a altezza light from another car around the same size as an e-series one and get a plastic welder to fit it up?? Then just get some custom made clear perspex for the cover then you have some altezzas.

EFFalcon · 30-01-2005, 01:35 PM

damn... those NC ones came up nice!
i look forward to seeing these on cars very soon

LUXO_8 · 30-01-2005, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by blinkau

You could just get an AU then you have several rice lights to choose from.

Though for an E-eseries couldnt you find a altezza light from another car around the same size as an e-series one and get a plastic welder to fit it up?? Then just get some custom made clear perspex for the cover then you have some altezzas.

LOL
dude, the whole point is we DONT WANT altezza lights, just clear lenses all round.
personally i think altezza lights SUCK.

Psycho Chicken · 30-01-2005, 07:19 PM

Smashing the orange out on the sedans clearly isn't the way to go!

There's no way to get it all smashed up.

LUXO_8 · 30-01-2005, 07:28 PM

and you found that out on your good light didnt you?

off to JR's for a replacement

needfordspeed · 30-01-2005, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by MADNC_8

and you found that out on your good light didnt you?

off to JR's for a replacement

You should do it Wayne! Me and Sunny went to pick-a-part today to try it out, it's simple as....but we kinda demolished the tail light

I think you could probably take the bulb out and start cracking the orange part from the back after that just remove the orange peices, that's what NC_Steve done I think.

RUQ1KA · 30-01-2005, 09:13 PM

me thinks the wagon will have el lookin lights tomorrow

NC_Steve · 30-01-2005, 09:14 PM

Yep that's exactly what I did. I used a large flat blade screwdriver to break up the walls of the orange lens and break it in half. Then I used needle nosed pliers to grab the lens and pull it through the socket hole and once it got stuck in the hole I turned the pliers to shatter the lens bit by bit. I also found out today that the orange tinted globes don't fit in the sockets as those pins on the side of the globe are slightly offset differently. But it was nothing a few minutes with a die grinder didn't fix.

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LUXO_8 · 30-01-2005, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by needfordspeed

You should do it Wayne! Me and Sunny went to pick-a-part today to try it out, it's simple as....but we kinda demolished the tail light

I think you could probably take the bulb out and start cracking the orange part from the back after that just remove the orange peices, that's what NC_Steve done I think.

yup thats what steve did.
i was going to do it today but i left my pliars at work along with all the other headlight muck around tools that i have at work...

might do it in my lunch time tomorrow.

i already knew teh globes wouldnt fit in your holders
was gonna mod em for ya

LUXO_8 · 30-01-2005, 09:16 PM

the wagons have orange plastic lenses tommi, not the orange filter in the clear lights - you have to just replace the units with EL ones

Psycho Chicken · 30-01-2005, 09:32 PM

lol I advise against the hammer and screwdriver method with the sedan.....I put a hole through the lense with the hammer. Glued it back on, keeps popping off when I close the boot lmao

RUQ1KA · 30-01-2005, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MADNC_8

the wagons have orange plastic lenses tommi, not the orange filter in the clear lights - you have to just replace the units with EL ones

just found that out:(

LUXO_8 · 30-01-2005, 09:57 PM

lol, how, by smashing the lens???

will fully laugh if you did.....!

RUQ1KA · 31-01-2005, 04:46 PM

nah i wasnt that stoopid:P
i pulled out the globe shined a torch into the light and i could see the clear lense was on the inside:P

i was about to get at it with a screwdriver but i wasnt sure cause it looked to me like the outer lens was painted hence the checking:P

huggiebear · 28-10-2005, 09:42 PM

can someone who saved those pics of the lights repost them as they no longer work and im interested in the pics on page 2