so most everyone knows how to open a headlight to do retrofits... so my question is... has anyone tried opening up tail light housings? has anyone done it? do you bake it? anyone know how you would go about doing that?

 

I'm sure you just bake it. what are you planning there buddy?

 

haha... well im not trying to be secretive cause i think the ideas on here are great and that's where i got some of mine...

i currently have the tyc tail lights... i wanted to crack em open and at the bare minimum smoke the amber so it isnt so amber or candy apple red coat them so they arent amber at all... i have to be mindful of the local laws here in california which IMO are way too strict...

depending on if i paint my headlight housing white to hide the ccfl ring, i want to paint the black deadspace on the tail lights white to match the headlights...

of course this is all dependant on what i do with my headlight housing as well as if i can even open up the tail light housing...

 

The tails can't be baked like the headlights, they have to be cut open.

 

^^ what he said...

no baking for the taillights.... gotta cut.

 

Laws-shmaws . Just do it. I did...

It would have to be a really **** Police/CHP man to pull you over just because you painted over your 'reverse' lights. Plus, mine look very similar to the Accord Tail lights sans the 'reverse' lights on the hatch near the license plate. (Honda.com) Good luck trying to get those TYCs open. j/k.

 

i cut mine. theres a spot and its perfect.

 

Yeah, thorwing 'em in the oven would be a really bad idea.

 

hey do you mind showing me where you cut? or even describing it? and i also assume you resealed it? silicone maybe?

 

I imagine you would cut along where the transparent part of the lens meets the black plastic of the housing. Dremel time! :D

 

yeah but i wanna make sure it looks as clean and oem as possible...

 

Then take your time and be carefull.

 

there is a lighter red part where it looks like it was melted plastic and it semi oozed out. its even, and not drastic, but its where the lenes meets the housing, its a redish ooze i guess is the best way to describe it. and yes, a dremel and your golden. i used dap silicone to put it back togheter, not a single leak. nothing but silicone. it has to be flexible kinda. esp if you have to get back in there. silicone lasts foever.

 

i don't think you can bake the tyc tails coz u might melt the LEDs that are in it. try baking it and see what happens and tell all of us what happened so we could learn something.lol

 

why are people affraid of the dremel?

 

why are people affraid of the dremel?

Because it is not like tape where you can take it off, cause once you cut it, its forever...

 

Yeah, I am going to have to go with what he said.
But Macguyver... can you show us a DIY or show us a pic of where you cut. I don't like the idea of cutting the lights, but if that's the only way that I can get in them, I will. I need to get in there so I can install strobes.

If no one else does it some time soon, I will write up a DIY to get into the lights...

 

ok here it is. there is a spot that looks like melted plastic between the flat edge of the back of the tail and the back of the lense. it looks like it was gooey and they set the lense on it and it oozed out to form the seal. you cut that ooze part w/ the dremel wheel parallel to the lense. not any other way than PARALLEL to the lense