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Old 07-25-02, 10:02 PM
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Default Clearing my 93 taillights...

I am going to try and clear the 93 sc400's tailights. Has anyone tried this yet? i know there are companies that do it but i'm not stupid enough to pay that much for cleared tailights. I intend on buyin some from a junkyard and experimenting with them. Please let me know if you have any pointers. thanx
Old 07-26-02, 02:16 AM
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92-94 taillights are hard to work with...

get yourself a set of 95-96 style lights and you'll be able to clear the bottom easier...

Tony
Old 07-28-02, 12:06 AM
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keep us updated on clearing ur tail-lights.
i been looking at mine everytime to see if it's possible to clear our lights.
maybe i'll work on mine after my summerschool ends.
Old 07-28-02, 05:53 AM
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I honestly don't think it's possible w/ the 92-94 tail lights. The outter lens covering itself is amber. You would need to either create an entirely new outter lens or find a way to physically change the amber to clear (which I doubt there is any relatively simple way of doing) I've had mine out before & decided to save myself the trouble. I agree w/ Tony, 95-96 are the best bet. I'm trying to get myself a cheap pair & then get to work!
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I dont know how this guy in Japan did this to his rear lights.
There were no details or costs with the picture.
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Old 07-28-02, 08:14 AM
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Originally posted by 'S'Low Rider
I dont know how this guy in Japan did this to his rear lights.
There were no details or costs with the picture.
OMG....HOW DID HE DO THAT. I would pay top $ for those lights. Do u remember when u found that site?
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The sad news, is that the pictures weren't on a website...... they were on a Japanese 'auction' site, for sale......... over 6 months ago.

The seller didn't want to ship outside of Japan, so I couldn't even buy them......

Still at least we know it can be done, so all we have to do is to work out how........
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Originally posted by 'S'Low Rider
Still at least we know it can be done, so all we have to do is to work out how........
Thats tru. It DOES look like the lense is the factory lense, he just somehow got the orange out. I wish i had a spare pair to mess around w/ but i don't. Ill go out and look at mine tho since I'm bored
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wow! i would love to have those.... i'd pay a pretty penny for those...
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i remember a while back someone here in Rosemead was charging 150 to clear the top section of the SC's tail light. I'm going to look into that this week... i should have the number somewhere...
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do-luck, if you get the number, please share it, I would send my lights out to there to have my lights done, maybe we could get a group something or other with this place..

thanks
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WOW! Those do look nice! I wouldn't mind putting those on my car!
Old 07-29-02, 09:38 PM
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Why is it that most japan cars that come to America have white and red taillights (in Japan) and orange and red (in US)? It would be just our luck that it's not the case with the SC(Soarer)
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How sweet would those lights be!!!!

Stop getting excited, it's photoshoped
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Old 07-30-02, 02:28 AM
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You think it's photoshopped? I've seen the one you did a while back and I knew those were photoshop, but this one looks kinda real. And you know the japanese do crazy stuff!!


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