Well I hate my clear tail lights, and really dont like the stock ones either, so i had an idea too mask off the circles that are in the stock lights and paint all the rest impulse blue metallic to match the car. yeah i know that it is illegal, and i really aint sure how long i will have them in before i get stopped. just figure until i do it should look pretty good. here they are taped off and ready to be painted i hope this weekend with my dash if i get time of work.

Should look pretty cool I did my inners solid like the car even tho mine look gay lol.
I have never gotten stopped for them.

Why is that illegal?

I don't see why his would be but mine don't have reverse lights now.

I was told they would be illegal for the fact the am painting over the reflective parts of the tail lights.

Unless I'm mistaken, part of the inner round part is a reflector...

Yeah i agree, i dont really see the big deal with it either. I hope it doesnt cause a problem cause i think i will like it when its done. my buddy does inspections and the only thing he said he could see them bitching about is from the side you would normally see the reflector on the outer tail light. now you wont see that. either way i am going to do it, wont be the first time i got pulled over and had to change something, sure it wont be the last,

@ inspections.

Glad I live in an area that doesn't have 'em. My cav wouldn't pass w/ the Toyos if that was the case w/ the reflectors.

Any pictures of them painted and installed yet?


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I will put up some pics of them painted tomm. they took last priority for the moment. i painted them when i did the dash. i had no dash at all in the car so i wet sanded and buffed those peices and got them back in the car before i worried about the tail lights since i already had a set of them in. But i will get some pics first thing tomm of them painted, they are wet sanded though so they arent going to look great but it will give you an idea of what they are going to look like. I am really pleased with them and think they are going to look really good in the car.

Well here they are painted. they were just wet sanded so thats why they look dull. i wanted to level out the clear so you couldnt feel the lip where the light wasnt painted. i am going to lay about three more coats of clear on them then wet sand them and buff them. hoping to have them done some time next week, depending on work and weather.

im digging it... i would do this, but my paint matches the stock tails color haha looking good though. cant wait to see em on the car

That looks really good. However I do not know how it would be anymore illegal than the newer Impalas that have the paint matched covers that make the lights look round.



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hey looks good man shouldn;t be illegal i have seen worse

Thanks everyone for the commpliments. now if i can just get the weather on my side and get some time off work i will get them finished and in the car.

Hey, what kinda paint did you use?? I wanna do that to mine, looks real nice bro.

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lookin good. make sure you clear them so they stay that color. then install.
did you sand them down any?


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Ok well bringin this post back from the dead. I finally got some time to finish my painted tails project, it took forever for me to get the time but here they are. They are painted impulse blue metallic to match the cars color, and they were cleared so there is no lines left on the tails. overall i am super happy with them. now i just have to brace my type-j rear some more, still got some sag in it, thats next weeks project so please over look that lol. enjoy.

Those look great man, much cleaner than covers.

looks liked the turned out good. im not a huge fan cause they look like the covers but at least you did them the right way. as far as legality goes they could be considered illegal just for the fact most laws would state any modifying to the tails is illegal. chances are cops won't say anything though. most problaby wont even know they are nonstock.


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i like it, it looks great

Very nice!

Glad I didn't do those in body color.


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looks awesome, good work.



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if your really sweating getting stopped use liscence plate bolts with red reflectors then you have a rear facing red reflector and it's all good



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