Fly Eye head/tail/fog light tints

[grenade]

Got some fly eye from eBay, tinted head lights. Looks good. Easy to apply...then I did the centre rear tail light, stupidly leaving the hardest till last, the outer rear tail light. How many curves can you fit on one light? Wow! Tried 4 times gave up! So obviously took the rest of the fly eye off the other part of rear tail lights. Going to do front fog lights too but I'm in a huff now so will do it another time.


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[grenade]

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[Ckpearce91]

I like it. Looks pretty rude. How does it affect the LED's? I'm also thinking of doing this. Especially the rear lights

 

[grenade]

Well the site said fully legal, as not a tint so let's all the light out. It's a black mesh with loads of holes in it so the light can get through just like before. Did my fog lights too. Looks great. No photos yet as just dropped car off at dealers because of annoying wind noise coming through driver side door on the motorway.
The rear lights a nightmare good luck! Hopefully your better then me at it


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[Ckpearce91]

Did you have to take the lights out to wrap the tint film on?

 

[grenade]

No just clean the area, stick it on, removed the bubbles and smooth it out then just use a blade around the edge to cut the excess off. Then with a bank card and hair dryer seek it around the edge. Here's a video I used
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vaNRO1k3n-8



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[GrahamFR]

can you see the mesh when you get close tho?

 

[grenade]

Yeah. I should hopefully get my car back today and I'll add a few more pictures. Like I say, an actual tint is illegal I think so think this is the only option


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[GrahamFR]

i still think subtle tint is ok but gun smoke is illegal, not that you will ever get stopped like

 

[Ckpearce91]

I think it's all legal as long as you can see the light reflect through the tint or something like that I read in the regulations

 

[grenade]

Here's the fog lights done too

And a close up of the headlights

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[Fred99]

Sounds logical.

You buy a car with possibly the best headlights on the market and you stick plastic all over them to reduce the light output.

 

[GrahamFR]

Sounds logical.

You buy a car with possibly the best headlights on the market and you stick plastic all over them to reduce the light output.

All for the love of asthetics lol

 

[grenade]

Black grille next me thinks


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[simonali]

Sounds logical.

You buy a car with possibly the best headlights on the market and you stick plastic all over them to reduce the light output.

They are a very long way from "the best headlights on the market". Xenons piss all over these weak LED lights.

Anyway, back to the original topic, didn't people use tights for this effect back in the day?

 

[GrahamFR]

Yes I use tints but laminx subtle tint is hard to come by so I had to get an eBay special.

 

[GrahamFR]

With-

Without-

 

[Doug_m]

Looks good but does it affect light output alot?

 

[GrahamFR]

Not that I have noticed but physics suggests it must

 

[morini]

They are a very long way from "the best headlights on the market". Xenons piss all over these weak LED lights.

I think they're awesome, but then I am coming from halogen on last cupra. Car before that had xenons though and they were nowhere near as good as these LED's.