Pigman

So I'm too cheap to buy 2001 tail lights and I hated the amber, red and clear look of my ES's tails, so I decided to paint them.

I taped off the amber parts, scuffed them and painted them with Testor's transparent Candy Red. I then wet sanded and cleared averything to blend it all in.

What do you guys think?

Before:


After:

Rollin'ES3

nice! i like it, something new, clean work

Pigman

Thanks, too bad the car isn't clean though. I had to bump it out to the driveway now since I picked up the RX as well.

92ES5sp

It looks good! It reminds of seeing the back end of an old LS400 actually, but its got that 'it was made that way' look ya know? Looks very clean! Nice job dude

tuan92129

Hmm looks nice
Too bad you can't red out 100% though..o well

Pigman

I thought about it, but then nobody would know when my reverse lights were on. Plus it wouldn't pass a safety like that if I ever sold it.

Lexucan

Wow, I like that look a lot!
And since you did such a great job of it, I think we can probably forgive you for not washing her before you took the pics....but just this once!

VTFIJI

Looks good. Has anyone ever considered tinting the middle strip? I have a black ES and was considering that, but wasn't sure how it would look w/ 2 red stripes for tail lights.

vin 78

Ha, I'm kinda like you, the only difference is that I'm getting tired of my `01's....I might revert back to the originals.
The orange ones as more character IMO.

Parker Gen

Looks good.
Actually yeah, I am thinking of tinting my rear lights black, with standard window tint.

maniax

iTrader: (3)

Damn you stole the idea from my head!

ES BL155

iTrader: (3)

Hey if you ever decide to sell them let me know. i can take them off your hands

Lexucan

Up to you, but I woudn't recommend it for safety reasons. Cathafer in the 2IS forum got her tails blacked out and then got rear-ended really bad last week 'cause the driver of the car behind her said he couldn't tell her brake lights were on.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=279183

Parker Gen

That's no good. I can't see the pictures at the moment but I'll have to check it out... to see how dark they were blacked out. Sounds bad.

TeamAM

the only one i found.