painting altezza taillights

[jeeper_x]

i put red vinyl on the real deal on my old car.....

and i love it!!!.......

[iRONDONkey]

rofl..

you mad he getting fake tail lights?

it's some god damn tail light. just stfu.

[D14]

Painted $200 eGay taillights:

[jeeper_x]

^^^ that's the ugliest taillight i ever seen in my life....

and the painted mid section? GROSS!

what a waste of the rims and engine!

[D14]

Good thing they're not mine...

[iRONDONkey]

[iRONDONkey]

What do you guys think about the tails for the coupe?

[jeeper_x]

Originally Posted by D14

Good thing they're not mine...

no shit....lolzz

it got some euro license plate on it....

[origin_s135]

Originally Posted by iRONDONkey

What do you guys think about the tails for the coupe?

it looks good. but god damn those hatcback ones are UGH.

[iRONDONkey]

Originally Posted by origin_s135

it looks good. but god damn those hatcback ones are UGH.

lol good thing i own a coupe.

[LA_phantom_240]

Originally Posted by one_flip

I bought my first '89 240sx back in '67. State of the art shit is boring me nowadays, I think I'd like to time travel else where before the internet was created.

Your sarcasm is weak young padawan.

Body work in progress. Didn't have many pics after she was painted cause it got hit and then the KA crapped out. Sold it quite a few years ago.




Yeah, the reverse lights were atrocious.... but hey, I was 15.

[D14]

Originally Posted by iRONDONkey

What do you guys think about the tails for the coupe?

They look cool but I'd be worried about how well they're sealed. I saw some at HIN in October that had a lot of moisture inside the lens.

[LA_phantom_240]

Originally Posted by D14

They look cool but I'd be worried about how well they're sealed. I saw some at HIN in October that had a lot of moisture inside the lens.

Fools shoulda hit up the blowdryer before the show. LOL.

[s13dan]

Anybody done the vinyl on the center section too, so the whole thing is red?? I wanna see what the looks like.

[HyperTek]

why dont one of u guys get these and just hack it up, wire up an led panel and be done?

I think these would look 10x better then the "altezzas"


oem kouki tho is still my fav when the rest of the car pulls it off


People say they wont spend $400 on some tail lights, well what do you expect? rare-imported brand new never been offered in the US tail lights will come at a price, compared to some chinese mass produced aftermarket lights. It was originally a drastic facelift for the car, even requiring a lower panel and new key lock cylinder, more a conversion then just some tail lights.

[LA_phantom_240]

Originally Posted by HyperTek

why dont one of u guys get these and just hack it up, wire up an led panel and be done?

I think these would look 10x better then the "altezzas"

I considered doing such, but sold my s13s long before I got handy with LEDs. All the s14 aftermarket tails look like ass.

[derek_s13]

Originally Posted by jeeper_x

^^^ that's the ugliest taillight i ever seen in my life....

and the painted mid section? GROSS!!

....you know the midsection came body color from the fucking factory, right?

i mean you must. it's clear you do. since you're questioning it and all.






also, i'd like to add the red/clears look great IMO. when i had my s13 i considered selling
koukis and getting those to switch it up. i really like them on the firemaster s13 with ns01's.

also the chi-town white hatch with them looks good stateside. yep.

[holaback]

Originally Posted by LA_phantom_240

I considered doing such, but sold my s13s long before I got handy with LEDs. All the s14 aftermarket tails look like ass.

last ones look decent

[soreballz]

^First three styles look like steaming hot piles of dookie. The last style looks cool.

[LA_phantom_240]

The last style is okay.... but I don't like buying pre-fab LED tails. Never have any idea of their quality. At least I know what I use, and the quality of my materials and workmanship.

Originally Posted by D14

nice ford probe....... thats tiiiiiiiiite y0

Originally Posted by HyperTek

People say they wont spend $400 on some tail lights, well what do you expect? rare-imported brand new never been offered in the US tail lights will come at a price, compared to some chinese mass produced aftermarket lights. It was originally a drastic facelift for the car, even requiring a lower panel and new key lock cylinder, more a conversion then just some tail lights.

its not just this forum, its happening on other forums as well. i have customers with 350Z's and G35's and they're telling me the same thing: the forums are getting filled with n00bs who are buying the cars at a fraction of what they cost when they were new.

BAM.. thats when it happens, the cheapness-factor takes over. All of a sudden you have these 20 year old kids that mommy and daddy bought them a car (probably out of guilt) and now they're trying to look baller and want to modify them with as little money as possible.

you basically end up with people buying knockoff seats, megan coilovers, and all sorts of cheap shit. it kills the quality in the community.

just read through this thread, you've got a butt-load of idiots complaining that these cheap lights actually look good (in comparison to what, herpes?). Anyway... its a waste of time. Once you go quality you dont turn back.

"oh but im a drifter" - no, you're an idiot. if you're a drifter, than install stock 89-94 tail lights which cost DIRT, i give them away to people for free.

but i guess logically, it makes more sense to drift with shitty overpriced aftermarket tails than it does with no tails, or OEM 89-94 tails.

idiots.

[!Zar!]

Originally Posted by LA_phantom_240

I painted some altezza tails on my s13 in '03. Shit's old.



You really need to shut the fuck up and gtfo of whatever kind of drugs you're into to make you think you're the almighty lighting god. Not everyone can afford OEM Kouki tails. Some of us daily drive our cars, and with the price of Kouki tails, we can't afford to replace them if they break. Some of us drift or just generally fuck off in our cars that would put the tails in danger.

The point is, OEM JDM tails aren't in all of our budgets. For others, we just don't like the Kouki tails. I personally don't. Mind you, I don't like s13 fastback tails in general.

So with that logic, why buy the ebay tails? I mean, you're going to crash right?

Or better yet, don't mod your car at all. I mean, why mod what might break in a crash?

Even more so, don't even drive! That money you spend on a car might be waisted if your car is totaled.

Shit, what's the point of being alive? You're just going to die at some random time.



Why can't anyone ever own up to their cheapness? Instead you get people who rag on the guys who spend money on quality/high end parts (WTF? LOL) then try to tell them that cheap knockoffs look/work just as good.

[s13dan]

i just wanted the LED euro/altezza lights all red , except the reverse lights.. Maybe ill just buy some and do it so i can show you all.

[projectb13]

wow this thread is fucking retarted !

[murderrsirenss]

heres mine..



sike!

[Matej]

So good.

[projectb13]

Originally Posted by azndoc

^^^^ I like that.

I actually do.

seven star sticker is the shit

[D14]

Originally Posted by ixfxi

its not just this forum, its happening on other forums as well. i have customers with 350Z's and G35's and they're telling me the same thing: the forums are getting filled with n00bs who are buying the cars at a fraction of what they cost when they were new.

BAM.. thats when it happens, the cheapness-factor takes over. All of a sudden you have these 20 year old kids that mommy and daddy bought them a car (probably out of guilt) and now they're trying to look baller and want to modify them with as little money as possible.

you basically end up with people buying knockoff seats, megan coilovers, and all sorts of cheap shit. it kills the quality in the community.

just read through this thread, you've got a butt-load of idiots complaining that these cheap lights actually look good (in comparison to what, herpes?). Anyway... its a waste of time. Once you go quality you dont turn back.

"oh but im a drifter" - no, you're an idiot. if you're a drifter, than install stock 89-94 tail lights which cost DIRT, i give them away to people for free.

but i guess logically, it makes more sense to drift with shitty overpriced aftermarket tails than it does with no tails, or OEM 89-94 tails.

idiots.

QFT.

I can't remember if it was here or NICO or one of the other Nissan boards, but just the other day I saw a guy "introducing" yet another shitty brand of ultra-low priced coilovers; the sad part was that the damned things were only $600 and people were still trying to organize a group buy.

[HyperTek]

^^times have changed.. the cars have became cheaper, more popular, more 3rd gen owners etc etc lol.. Theft be a major concern for me to get another one for daily driving... Its the new 89 honda civic in the import tuning craze lol