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anyway to make red outs blink orange??

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Old 06-17-10, 04:24 AM
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hey guys

i live in australia and it's illegal to have your indicators any other colour, other than orange

i've bought red outs from ebay for $15 (this was before i knew it was illegal)
i havent applied them yet, but whenever i look at the back of my car, the orange part of the lights just look ugly

im on my P's (provisional license) so the cops love pulling me over for no reason and wasting my time, but i dont want them to fine me for having red indicators either, lol

could i change the bulb to another colour? to make it blink orange? or close to it
i saw a new Audi Q7 today, and noticed the tail lights were red, but the indicator blinks orange

this is just a temporary mod till i get my hands on some ebay LED IS-F lights, atleast i think thats what there called
they look the same as the IS-F one, but use LED's

unless someone in australia, sydney wants to trade there IS-F lights for my OEM lights + money

thanks!
Old 06-17-10, 07:03 AM
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you can buy whatever bulb color you want and it still wont blink anything but red if your using the redout film. sorry bro
Old 06-17-10, 11:11 AM
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im thinking mdgrwl is right. its gonna be hard to show orange through the redout film.
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^ Correct. You'll have to get IS-F tails or the eBay lookalikes (Eagle Eye is the brand name for the eBay tails).
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maybe a yellow LED bulb? since yellow and red make orange...
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well, dont know about the redouts, but....I once saw the 05 TL. Their tail lamps are all red, yet the guy managed to make them blink orange/amber over the stock red. Dont know how though
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Originally Posted by ULTiMaX99
maybe a yellow LED bulb? since yellow and red make orange...
That's an interesting thought... something tells me with the OEM amber reflector and the redout vinyl on top of that, a yellow bulb wouldn't do much though.
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put amber vinyl over red out... then you have both
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Originally Posted by k2sty1
...i live in australia and it's illegal to have your indicators any other colour, other than orange...
question: so the nissan G35/37's have orange tails there? in the US the G's lens's are all red.
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Originally Posted by ULTiMaX99
maybe a yellow LED bulb? since yellow and red make orange...
Old 06-17-10, 02:56 PM
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thanks guys, ill just wait for isf lights then
also, they dont sell infiniti in australia, u have to buy imported nissan skyline 350gt or something to get as close to a infiniti g35
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I don't like red, that's why I bought ISF tails.
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Originally Posted by k2sty1
i saw a new Audi Q7 today, and noticed the tail lights were red, but the indicator blinks orange
The Germans seemed to have figured this out. The MB CLK does the same thing. Pretty cool. I believe amber turn signals are mandatory in Europe as well.
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saw my friends '98 Passat and it has "half" red outs

well, the the indicators are red and orange
wat it looks like is, if i put red outs on my IS250, but cut horizontal lines, so some of the orange shows up
i think i might try that
it blinks orange, so should be fine
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I wonder if you bought IS-F tails, put redouts on with a yellow bulb underneath if it would accomplish this. Of course, it's stupid to put redouts on IS-F tails, but just throwing it out there.


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