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      01-05-2013, 02:37 PM   #1
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Smoked tail lights

Where to get some quality cover or cut film for our tail lights? I want to see if anyone have some first hand experience. Seen lots of them online, but tough to tell quality
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      01-05-2013, 02:39 PM   #2
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      01-05-2013, 02:59 PM   #3
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      01-05-2013, 03:23 PM   #5
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Smoked tail lights are ugly/tacky IMO. Instantly cheapen the look of any car.
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      01-05-2013, 03:30 PM   #6
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Even for the civic M3, tinted tails would look cheesy.
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It isn't for my ///M, its for a friend's 335is...She seems set on it...
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      01-05-2013, 04:12 PM   #9
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It isn't for my ///M, its for a friend's 335is...She seems set on it...
Explain to her that she is ASKING to be rear-ended. Ask her if she likes being rear-ended.....
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      01-05-2013, 04:17 PM   #10
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      01-05-2013, 04:32 PM   #11
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      01-05-2013, 05:28 PM   #14
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Where to get some quality cover or cut film for our tail lights? I want to see if anyone have some first hand experience. Seen lots of them online, but tough to tell quality
OP, use the money to purchase LCI tails.
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      01-05-2013, 05:55 PM   #15
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Smoked tail lights are ugly/tacky IMO. Instantly cheapen the look of any car.

+4. No way. Do the golf tee 335 exhaust mod instead.
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      01-05-2013, 06:10 PM   #16
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Please don't do it, don't smoke your taillights it looks so tacky.
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      01-05-2013, 06:11 PM   #17
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      01-05-2013, 06:19 PM   #18
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It isn't for my ///M, its for a friend's 335is...She seems set on it...
Are you sure??
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      01-05-2013, 10:16 PM   #19
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      01-05-2013, 10:59 PM   #20
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I'm going to go against everyone here, but honestly. If the smoked tailights matches the theme of your car, then it will look good. For example, a blacked out car with a smoked taillights fits the trend.

But if you have a white M with brushed steel rims, and you throw on smoked taillights, that might look a bit off.

I'll post a pic of my e90 with smoked tails, and people are free to bash as much as they want
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      01-06-2013, 03:50 AM   #21
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I smoked mine 6 months ago.... I lasted about 9 days and I ripped them off. Space gray looks good with tinted taillights too, except it just did NOT feel right. It's an M.... it just doesn't work.

Anyway, when I ripped them off my car I was in love with the LCI taillights all over again. It was like the day I first saw them.
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