ambettail light question

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tonynalli
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i was wondering if there is any way to get the amber out of the tail lights of the coupe? if im not mistaken one of my friends did it in his honda,not like im making any comparison to a nissan to a honda only as a point of reference. if anyone has taken apart their coupe tail lights or something of that nature any info would be greatly appreciated. thanks


silkk
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Something like that? Thats from http://www.clearcorners.com. You send them your lights and they remove it for you but it costs a lot. I'm not sure how they do it but they charge you $375.

tonynalli
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thats exactly what i want. damn im in love. but for 375, i dont love them that much. i assume that mabey they replace the amber with clear or mabey teh amber can be removed by taking a soldering iron to the areas that they are attached to, i jsut need a test tail light. anyone got one lying around?

RedRum240
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they basicly change out your light bulbs and put in LED lights. then they make a new cover for the lights entierly. and a new plastic piece. they want you to send in your lights cause they keep some of the pieces and wires. then throw the rest out on ebay or junkyards.

my best friend did the conversion with clearcorner's they do good work but all they pretty much do is change it form light bulbs to LED's then make a new cover for the lights

kouki-gymkhana
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RedRum240 wrote:they basicly change out your light bulbs and put in LED lights. then they make a new cover for the lights entierly. and a new plastic piece. they want you to send in your lights cause they keep some of the pieces and wires. then throw the rest out on ebay or junkyards.

my best friend did the conversion with clearcorner's they do good work but all they pretty much do is change it form light bulbs to LED's then make a new cover for the lights


OK, there is a way to remove the amber lense from the tail light but you'd then have to fab up a whole new clear lense to replace it. Unlike many of the Hondas that have just an amber insert behind a clear exterior lense, the 240sx turn signals are entirely made of the amber plastic. What you could do is get some clear lucite sheets, cut out a replica of the original lense and then stick that in there. This is more or less what clearcorners.com does. BTW, let me be the first to say that clearcorners does a fantastic job. Yes, their products are expensive but in reality, who's their competition? Right, no one. Also, (with all due respect) doing a custom LED retrofit is no small task so please don't belittle the effort it takes to pull it off.


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