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I was just wondering if it was possible to buy a set of cheap LED taillights (clear ones) and swap the lense cover with the OEM ones(not clear ones), so it kinda looks like the nismo LED ones? Would that work? Or the lense covers just won't fit?

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Yeah, the one he was doing was like $300-400? But I think he said it looks like the HSV LED lights?

But I was just wondering if I get my hands on some East Bear style ones, for like $150 or something, would I be able to replace the lense cover with my stock ones?

nah his look similar to the eastbear ones.. Just with standard covers.. he said no to nismo looking ones cause they have the staggered look and was more $$$ and more risk of breaking i think.. anyways check his thread as he's got piccies up now..

also eastbear lookalikes are 3-400$$$ as it is.. where you gonna get second hand ones?.. also lenses "should" be interchangeable.. But i don't think anyone would've been game enough to heat up their lenses just to see :)

the east bear leds wont fit in the stock housing .. the indicator circle for example on the EB tail lights is much smaller diameter. The EB leds look good, just need to paint the indicator centre with amber plastic paint AND possibly the whole housing with some black spray/tint to remove some of the bling..

They're just too friggin reflective as they have the chrome reflector inside. I was thinking of opening mine up with a heatgun eventually and spraying the chrome reflectors with some black sparay (not solid black paint ..see through)

he wants to put the OEM housing (red plastic) on the eastbear tail lights.. so looks factory till they light up..

look at getting some nightshade tint for that then.. will still have the light but take away the chrome..

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the oem housing wont fit over the EB leds I dont think .. just look at the size of the blinker circle on the oem and EB housings, the EB one is half the diameter..

As for taking away the chrome ..has anyone done this with the EB led lights ??

I'm thinking spraying the external housing with tint won't have the desired effect just make a little less obvious. To do it properly would probably need to open them up and spray the actual chrome reflectors. Why they put those tardy chrome reflectors in there I will never know.

Well I don't particularly mean the EB one, just some after market EB "looking" ones...

Because yea, I just don't like any after marketing lenses, it makes the car look cheap...That's why the Nismo one looks best, because it has the OEM lense with LEDs inside and no chrome crap.

I'm gonna give that a try today unless the weather turns shit ... gotta do an oil change so i'll remove one of the EB tail lights and try to open the lense up with a heatgun. And I totally agree about the stock lenses looking much better than any of the aftermarket ones.

already done ..seriously, what a c**t of a job that was ...wasted all day. All siliconed up now and drying so maybe some pics tommorow... turned out a bit darker than planned but still looks better than before. Might still spray the reflectors (the little circles on the outter big lenses) as they kinda look ghey due to their small size and lighter colour now

Ok here's a few piccies I just took .. the car's very dirty I know :) Preparing it for a detailed clean but the weather turned crapola.. anyway.

With lights off:

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Lights on:

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Brake on:

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Turned out probably twice as dark as originally planned but you can still see the lights and brake lights clearly so it's not unsafe.

edit: the "lights off" first 2 photos I think I may have had the lights on actually ..not sure now hmm. Will take some better pics anyway soon once the car is detailed.

whats the big deal with the nismo setup? Other than using stock lenses there's nothing special about it .. I hate that star shape, it actually looks worse than these cheap copies.. I'm sure the one Dan's making will/does look better IRL than the Nismo star shape..

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