Great video. What a ton of work. Results look great, very unique. I've never met a car guy that wants to build a car identical to someone else's. (Excluding movie prop cars.) That butyl tape is interesting stuff. Mahalo for sharing! : )
You should fix your reverse lights they are tinted red and that's not legal and will probably confuse people. The turn signals being red is ok but not ideal
Just a heads up for anyone wanting to do this, you gotta have white reverse lights. Other than that, great build and the final result looks great. Though id definately go with the second revision you mention in the video. I personally prefer seperate amber turn signals. The combo turn and brake lights add ambiguity to the system. Not to mention in europe you have to have amber turn signals anyway
If you're in Europe, don't even think about it. It's not checked whether your lights fulfill the requirements but whether they are approved for this kind of car which can cost tens of thousands of dollars
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR! There's so many videos out there that talk about making custom taillights, but none of them ever outline the entire process start to finish. They're always either using premade parts, or only talk about the tech or removing/installing the lens. Truly incredible work, and I applaud you for showing and reflecting upon your mistakes. Keep it up!
I really like this. Personally I would've used less leds for regular tail lights and then used more for the brake portion. That way it's easier for cars behind you to know when you're braking. Too small of a brake light can be really hard to notice.
you can add resistors to "dull" the driving lights and with a diode can even use the same string of leds for both brake and driving creating a "high /low intensity" setting
this really is one of those "trust the method" sort of things hey? it would be so intimidating when youre half way through one, and then knowing you need to make the other one match. Really impressive. Looks sweet!
This is incredible man. I LOVE seeing passionate people make what they want in their own shops. This is going in my playlist for when I finally get the guts to do it myself lol
I very rarely comment on videos but this was too impressive not to. Been delving into automotive DIY over the past 10ish years (wiring, LEDs, etc) and always dreamt of being able to do this. Having unique taste and being hardheaded is a deadly combo but often leads to incredible results. Awesome job dude and thank you!
For someone who's planning on doing a custom job on my own car, this has definitely been an informative video regarding the process and things to keep in mind. Mine will however be much more complex, but that's exactly why something like this helps a lot. Thank you
@@sean640 almost there. Decided to go with 3D printing instead as my other options just didn't accommodate my requirements and the design style I'm going for. Just ordered my 3D printer the other day, plus I also already got the LEDs I'll be testing to accommodate the changes, so the prototyping continues. Also worked on the code for the Arduino / ESP32 that'll add customization for "show mode", so I'm excited to report that progress is being made. I'll outsource the lazer cutting of acrylic sheets to a contact of mine once I've got the majority of the design done. Once the rear is done I'll rework the front as I went with 7" jeep lights and a single debadged grille for my Mk1 golf in the meantime
Amazing! I've been mulling over how to make custom taillights for my '89 Celica and this just popped up in my feed! Great video, nice that you didn't shy away from showing the jank.
Tip for spreading sealant into tight/close areas is to use acid brushes and trimming the bristles by about half to increase the precision where it goes. Excellent video!
Worked out better than I expected, this is something I’ve wanted to try for ages. There are ways you can get white and orange to show through a red lens, lots of modern cars pull this off, I believe there’s a colour filter over the LEDs to cancel out the red. Good work 👍👍
@@IMEEMADE yeee you can make white thats how rgb works you have red soo tou need to find out what exacly color do you need to make it white , rgb works like this 3 main colours that make white when they combine you can just wire blue and green bec you have red already i mean by that red plastic from stops idk if gonna work this eay bec stop red is not a lighting soo maybe not gonna work but try anyway
Fellow automotive UA-camr here and I must say, your video is awesome. Great quality, great shots, great editing, and great commentary. Keep up the great work and wishing you the best with your channel. 😎🤙🏼
I used that oven trick to replace the lens on my car's headlights. I messed up when restoring them, and decided to just buy some aftermarket replacements. They were so cheap that I couldn't align them correctly. (The beam was too high) So I just swapped the new clear lens onto the original headlight assembly. Works perfectly, and the headlights looked brand new :D
They look great man! Good on you. Most people (including myself) don't have the courage to do this sort of thing. You have no just a custom part but a completley personal and hand made one. Only you have it and you'll have people asking you where you got them from and will feel amazing to say "Made them myself they're one offs" Keep it up!
Being an auto sparky and a nut for my own car; this video really helps outline a lot of the steps needed to make well, custom LED light houses. I did notice there was still a significant amount of bleed but hey, it's a first time and it looks absolutely SICK, if not heavily illegal forn australian standards. Definitely book marked though and honestly thanks for uploading my man, a real saint.
Just got to the end of the video and the first thing that came to my mind happened to be "I wonder how much jail time this gets you in the UK" our Gov doesn't mess around with stuff like this "Because it's not to standard and could blind other road users" and yet every other brand new car off the dealers forecourt comes with headlights that blind everyone on dipped beam, makes sense hey hahaha
I'm amazed how good that replacement lens came out for what is effectively half of a DIY vacuformer. Really cool to see how clean you can do with determination.
This is amazing, impressive work! I do wish my CR-Z had that diffused LED look rather than the exposed LED style, but it is a product of the early 2010s.
I was enjoying the video from the beginning, then you brought out that amazing oven and won me over lmao. Love it! Beautiful results, btw! Car looks gorgeous
I really like how you showed how its like to do a diy project. Nothing goes like you planned, you just gotta compromise and adapt your diy project to the circumstances you are forced with
I was about to buy new tail lights for my trailer because the plastic lenses are broken and it's cheaper to buy new led tail lights than it is to buy replacement lenses. I have plenty of clear acrylic pieces and it never occurred to me to heat and shape them until I saw your video. I'm sure I can find an easy enough way to colour them. Thanks for shining a light on a free fix using materials I already have!
I mean amber lights for blinkers/turns is cool, but not mandatory on older models, whites for reverse is. If he ever gets stopped by someone who knows his car can be deemed street ilegal.
Very, very cool. Thank you so much for sharing this project! As a person who owns a car with pretty much zero aftermarket parts available to buy, DIY seems to be the only option. Hopefully over the coming months I’ll have done enough research and be confident enough to give it a shot.
The whole way through the video, I was saying out loud what I thought you should do for the next step, and then you did. Lol. I think I WAY underestimate my ability to take on more projects outside of what I normally tackle! Really awesome job. Earned a sub for sure. My brother would get a kick out of this, too.
Black acrylic could also work, giving that same dark taillight look whilst retaining the colours of the LEDs beneath it, although do note that the LEDs have to be significantly brighter in that case.
This is the kinda thing I've been looking for for ages, the idea of modernising an older car but not one of those restomod things where the the only thing resembling the original thing is the body shell where the thing just becomes a typical modified car
Your content is so chill and at the same time hilarious and I see you are a fellow ender 3 pro owner so that earned you a sub And you are absolutely right about self-doubt with DIY projects I'm currently working on a 3D printed F1 car scale model and I had lots of self doubt about how good it will look but Never Give Up
A vacuum port on the bottom side of the oven would allow you to easily form the plastic to the new tails. I haven’t made one yet but your video has definitely given me a lot of ideas and inspiration. Thank you and wonderful job!!
Always been pretty fascinated by custom tail lights. I have a pair of custom tail lights for my truck, but I bought them pre-made. They look pretty good, but there's nothing better than custom making stuff to be exactly as you want it. Next car I get, I'm gonna be doing something like this.
Great video, surprised you didn't try dynamic indicators or stuff like that as well. Red for reverse just seems like a really bad idea safety wise though
YOOOOOO! ive been thinking of doing this on my scooter! nowadays, you have these Piaggio Vespa's that get custom designed lights with cool leds, but my old gal gets left behind! this video is a god send
Modifications like this are hit and miss. With that being said, I love this kind of mod. Creative, unique and fun to do. Good job on both the lights and the video. Very impressive.
true!. i thinkn he could have done better with the design itself, but this dude's trials here are so inspiring. I'm def not as afraid to go into a project like this on my own thanks to him!
I really like your process. I think a couple of improvements could be made in how this was done though: 1) When forming your lens, perhaps building a vacuum former would be ideal. I've seen some made that use melamine boards, pegboard, a shopvac and silicone to achieve. Then you could get a much closer fit. It could even be worthwhile to consider making a negative template from your original lens for your new lens material so that you get an exact duplicate rather than a slightly oversized one. 2) Instead of using foil tape to secure your light separators, maybe make some posts, secured with epoxy or CA glue for those channels to attach to (via a hole and nut, or some other fastener). This, I think, would be more secure to temperature changes, whereas foil tape, I don't know how well it does. It could be an ideal tape, I'm admittedly ignorant about this product. So this suggestion I assign with an asterisk. 3) The separators don't have as straight of a line as I would like to see personally, so perhaps some c-channel aluminum or even PVC pipe split down the middle? I think this could provide much more uniform and straight lines. Again, I love your process. Very creative and it shall be stored in my brain for potential future projects.
Great video! I love how approachable this is for mild DIYers such as myself (I’m always in the lookout for me to get into more extreme projects). Out of curiosity do you think you might modify your new LEDs to use clear reverse lights? I’m curious how one would go about that if yes. Also the old housings are pretty reflective when not lit up, is there a good way to add reflective material (let’s say between the LED strips) for safety like when the car is parked?
Looks great, you may want to try polycarbonate / lexan instead of acrylic from a functional standpoint. It's not as clear looking and gets slowly sun damaged, but it It has far better impact resistance and won't shatter. Most factory headlights use polycarbonate or actual glass, if a rock were to hit an acrylic lense hard enough it could crack and shatter into pieces, although it's more likely on a headlight and not a tail light. Polycarbonate can still crack and scratch but it's far stronger than acrylic and is more shatter resistant.
Glad I stumbled upon this video. The 2022 Civic hatchback is a pretty sharp car, but everyone is doing super fancy custom work for the Sedan. Now I know the rough process to make my own one-of-a-kind lighting fixtures for my car.
Been thinking of fabbing lenses just like you did. Will give it a try. I'm in UK, with annual road worthiness tests being compulsory. So of course having 2 set of lights is necessary, 1 stock & 1 modded. Then fitting stock lights for the testing station.
Personally, I would’ve left the lights original. That said, what you did was very, very clever! I’m extremely impressed with the way you did the mod and your video skills, too.
Manufacturers should just make tail lights replacements like these for late 90's and 2000's cars, it would bring a lot of them back into life and make their designs stand out more. Very good job, I loved the end result, and would for sure try to build one if I had half the equipment.
Thanks for making this video! Im going to start a similar project on my first car, with halo lights. It's a 2007 Seat Ibiza so halo lights keeps with infitting with the original round design of it. Im going to reuse the clear lense already on the housing and tint it, and use amber halo for the indicators and red and white for the other lights, the only thing i need to figure out is rear fog as rear fog lights are mandatory on all cars in the UK so I need to either re use the original fog bulb which can just stay where it is and have a halo around it, or just use an LED for it. I'm not sure of the legality of it as its a grey area as it would pass an MOT technically. But it's definitely going to be a fun project to do, thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you so much for this video, its been a pain finding a shop that would do a mould for my tail lights and making a mould myself with clay/acrylic has been a huge pain until I came across your video. I purchased the same stove thing and Im finishing building my box today. Hopefully I can get this project done this week!
@@IMEEMADE Hey so the heat box wasnt getting the acrylic hot enough for me, my next step would be to line the inside with that insulation and find any heat leaks BUT in regards to me not wanting to wait that much longer im using my oven. Issue is that the sheet either cools down too quickly or doesnt get soft enough. I didnt buy the sheet you used as my tail lights are way longer but Ill look again.
This was an excellent vid brother, mainly because you removed ALL mystery and doubt that we can make our own tail lights using current gen LED tech. THanks🙏🏽❤
I didn't know this car existed, thought it was a custom built CRX after seeing that clip in the beginning. Then I googled "Honda Beat" and saw what I'd never heard of before. Looks like an EG6/Del Sol hybrid. I own an 88' CRX Si with the JDM 90-91' tails and bumpers. :) Most of the mods are interior, like power windows, a really high quality carpet, custom floor mats with the red "CRX Si" stitching in the middle that looks stock, alarm, humble audio setup. The mod I'd love to do the most is retrofit some HID projectors in there like I did on my daily but I'd have to find a way to grind off enough of the fluting on the glass and polish so as to allow the beam pattern to come out as intended with that sharp, colorful cutoff like the Morimotos on my daily. I'll get to it sometime...
This is really Brilliant and Creative Idea my guy!! I don't need to keep searching any expensive rare headlight for the car(albino headlight) anymore! thanks BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉👍
Working on something similar and this is bigtime underselling the amount of work and planning this project took. Great video though, I'll have questions in the future.
The end result kinda surprised me to be honest. They turned out pretty clean. Honestly thought they were gonna look janky that middle of the mall bullshit 🤣🤣🤣 but turned out DOPE! Good work too! You did everything yourself! Look good, one of kind, and you got the practice and technique down for future builds. Awesome video bro!
Bro, this is some of the most brilliant and creative crafting ive seen in a long time! I would have never even thought of doing something like this. Well fucking done my man!
Great video. What a ton of work. Results look great, very unique. I've never met a car guy that wants to build a car identical to someone else's. (Excluding movie prop cars.) That butyl tape is interesting stuff. Mahalo for sharing! : )
Thanks Gary, you're the best!
There's a lot of car that look the same tbh, especially some FRS/GR86/BRZ builds or some WRX build
You should fix your reverse lights they are tinted red and that's not legal and will probably confuse people. The turn signals being red is ok but not ideal
03 G35 on deck less go with the ideas
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Just a heads up for anyone wanting to do this, you gotta have white reverse lights. Other than that, great build and the final result looks great. Though id definately go with the second revision you mention in the video. I personally prefer seperate amber turn signals. The combo turn and brake lights add ambiguity to the system. Not to mention in europe you have to have amber turn signals anyway
Easy fix, just remove the reverse gear from your transmission.
for reverse light, you can install external white light at the back.
who use reverve ?
If you're in Europe, don't even think about it. It's not checked whether your lights fulfill the requirements but whether they are approved for this kind of car which can cost tens of thousands of dollars
Pretty sure most of this custom tail light is illegal in Europe
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR! There's so many videos out there that talk about making custom taillights, but none of them ever outline the entire process start to finish. They're always either using premade parts, or only talk about the tech or removing/installing the lens. Truly incredible work, and I applaud you for showing and reflecting upon your mistakes. Keep it up!
Thanks for watching all the way!
And to think I was about to drop $700 for some custom led tail lights. This is just what I was looking for!!!
Right on! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions during the build. I'd love to see the finished product!
Did you do it ? If so How much did it cost you ?
WHERE LOL
everywhere I look for my car custom tails start at $1000 with the ones I actually want being more like $1400
@@Meekmillan Are you going to dyi it?
yikes, they arn't legal. just be careful out there
legitimately one of the best, most accessible diy videos Ive ever seen about tail light mods that go this deep. jeebus nice work
Wonderful video
I really like this. Personally I would've used less leds for regular tail lights and then used more for the brake portion. That way it's easier for cars behind you to know when you're braking. Too small of a brake light can be really hard to notice.
you can add resistors to "dull" the driving lights and with a diode can even use the same string of leds for both brake and driving creating a "high /low intensity" setting
@@jackass123455 Why waste energy with resistors if it's normally done with PWM or constant current regulator.
@do oby i think he meant effort when this can already be done way more easily without resistors
I don't think practicality (or legality) was even on the list of requirements
@@jackass123455 I need to see that video
Ive always considered amber LEDs for rear turn signal to be superior and wish cars in America would do this more instead of red turn signals
I don't think there are many at all with red turn signals. The only ones that come to mind are cars with sequential turn signals like a Ford Mustang.
@@Mookaton No, there definitely are.
tons of cars have red glass over it all causing it to be just be red.@@Mookaton
@Mookaton Red turn lights are incredibly common in the US. Majority of anything truck runs red only at the rear.
11:48 looks like something off of gran turismo lol, such a cool build!!🤙🏻
this really is one of those "trust the method" sort of things hey? it would be so intimidating when youre half way through one, and then knowing you need to make the other one match. Really impressive. Looks sweet!
Bro this video is great editing, not boring at all, keep up the good work! I was exactly looking for something like this.
Thank you so much!!
This is incredible man. I LOVE seeing passionate people make what they want in their own shops.
This is going in my playlist for when I finally get the guts to do it myself lol
Awesome! Please tag me on the results, would love to see what you make!
Get the GUTS?!
Seriously, @imeemade: man, this is superb.
For future, you can make curved LED shapes by sticking the LED tape along the side of the C-shaped foil you cut, although you would actually use "
Good to know! 👍
I very rarely comment on videos but this was too impressive not to. Been delving into automotive DIY over the past 10ish years (wiring, LEDs, etc) and always dreamt of being able to do this. Having unique taste and being hardheaded is a deadly combo but often leads to incredible results. Awesome job dude and thank you!
For someone who's planning on doing a custom job on my own car, this has definitely been an informative video regarding the process and things to keep in mind. Mine will however be much more complex, but that's exactly why something like this helps a lot. Thank you
Happy building!
Did you get around to it yet?
@@sean640 almost there. Decided to go with 3D printing instead as my other options just didn't accommodate my requirements and the design style I'm going for. Just ordered my 3D printer the other day, plus I also already got the LEDs I'll be testing to accommodate the changes, so the prototyping continues. Also worked on the code for the Arduino / ESP32 that'll add customization for "show mode", so I'm excited to report that progress is being made. I'll outsource the lazer cutting of acrylic sheets to a contact of mine once I've got the majority of the design done. Once the rear is done I'll rework the front as I went with 7" jeep lights and a single debadged grille for my Mk1 golf in the meantime
@@morpheon_xyz awesome 🙌 looking forward to seeing what you ocme up with too
Amazing! I've been mulling over how to make custom taillights for my '89 Celica and this just popped up in my feed! Great video, nice that you didn't shy away from showing the jank.
Thanks for watching!
I really like this style of video. You don't have crazy expensive tools, you use common sense and patience. Good job.
Thanks so much!
I love them and the car idk what it is but it looks awesome im a truck guy so this should be an eye opener of how clean your car is
Tip for spreading sealant into tight/close areas is to use acid brushes and trimming the bristles by about half to increase the precision where it goes. Excellent video!
Thanks for the tip!!
Worked out better than I expected, this is something I’ve wanted to try for ages. There are ways you can get white and orange to show through a red lens, lots of modern cars pull this off, I believe there’s a colour filter over the LEDs to cancel out the red. Good work 👍👍
Hmmm that's interesting! Thanks for the heads up!
Green filter will be yellow through a red lens.
@@IMEEMADE yeee you can make white thats how rgb works you have red soo tou need to find out what exacly color do you need to make it white , rgb works like this 3 main colours that make white when they combine you can just wire blue and green bec you have red already i mean by that red plastic from stops idk if gonna work this eay bec stop red is not a lighting soo maybe not gonna work but try anyway
@@highnoon4515 sooooo…. Make a white LED and put it under the red Acrylic? Yeah, that’s _exactly_what IMEEMADE did, without “making” a white LED.
Fellow automotive UA-camr here and I must say, your video is awesome. Great quality, great shots, great editing, and great commentary. Keep up the great work and wishing you the best with your channel. 😎🤙🏼
Thanks for watching and sticking around! Much love! ✌️
I used that oven trick to replace the lens on my car's headlights.
I messed up when restoring them, and decided to just buy some aftermarket replacements. They were so cheap that I couldn't align them correctly. (The beam was too high) So I just swapped the new clear lens onto the original headlight assembly. Works perfectly, and the headlights looked brand new :D
They look great man! Good on you. Most people (including myself) don't have the courage to do this sort of thing. You have no just a custom part but a completley personal and hand made one. Only you have it and you'll have people asking you where you got them from and will feel amazing to say "Made them myself they're one offs" Keep it up!
Thank you so much!
this is EXACTLY what i was looking for THANKS MAN SUBSCRIBED! side note i may try this with a homemade vacuum former
Right on! Thanks for watching!
Being an auto sparky and a nut for my own car; this video really helps outline a lot of the steps needed to make well, custom LED light houses. I did notice there was still a significant amount of bleed but hey, it's a first time and it looks absolutely SICK, if not heavily illegal forn australian standards. Definitely book marked though and honestly thanks for uploading my man, a real saint.
Thanks for watching 🤘spark on!
Just got to the end of the video and the first thing that came to my mind happened to be "I wonder how much jail time this gets you in the UK" our Gov doesn't mess around with stuff like this "Because it's not to standard and could blind other road users" and yet every other brand new car off the dealers forecourt comes with headlights that blind everyone on dipped beam, makes sense hey hahaha
This video is exactly what I needed! Even the part about the self doubt 😅
😅😅 what's a project without a little existential crisis
I'm amazed how good that replacement lens came out for what is effectively half of a DIY vacuformer. Really cool to see how clean you can do with determination.
This is amazing, impressive work! I do wish my CR-Z had that diffused LED look rather than the exposed LED style, but it is a product of the early 2010s.
Sounds like it’s time for you to do your own mod!
I was enjoying the video from the beginning, then you brought out that amazing oven and won me over lmao. Love it! Beautiful results, btw! Car looks gorgeous
Hahaha glad you like the high tech oven. Thank you for watching!!
I really like how you showed how its like to do a diy project. Nothing goes like you planned, you just gotta compromise and adapt your diy project to the circumstances you are forced with
Haha yup! It’s always a shit show
I was about to buy new tail lights for my trailer because the plastic lenses are broken and it's cheaper to buy new led tail lights than it is to buy replacement lenses. I have plenty of clear acrylic pieces and it never occurred to me to heat and shape them until I saw your video. I'm sure I can find an easy enough way to colour them. Thanks for shining a light on a free fix using materials I already have!
The main issue is that all of your lights are red. White for reversing and orange/amber for signals is as you said the better way.
I mean amber lights for blinkers/turns is cool, but not mandatory on older models, whites for reverse is. If he ever gets stopped by someone who knows his car can be deemed street ilegal.
@omi6816 it's standard in every country not starting with North America
Very, very cool. Thank you so much for sharing this project! As a person who owns a car with pretty much zero aftermarket parts available to buy, DIY seems to be the only option. Hopefully over the coming months I’ll have done enough research and be confident enough to give it a shot.
Yes, you got it!
wow incredible work! i was shocked to see this only had 5k views! this should be viral :)
Thank you so much!
The whole way through the video, I was saying out loud what I thought you should do for the next step, and then you did. Lol. I think I WAY underestimate my ability to take on more projects outside of what I normally tackle! Really awesome job. Earned a sub for sure. My brother would get a kick out of this, too.
You should give it a try! You got this
Black acrylic could also work, giving that same dark taillight look whilst retaining the colours of the LEDs beneath it, although do note that the LEDs have to be significantly brighter in that case.
This is the kinda thing I've been looking for for ages, the idea of modernising an older car but not one of those restomod things where the the only thing resembling the original thing is the body shell where the thing just becomes a typical modified car
Your content is so chill and at the same time hilarious and I see you are a fellow ender 3 pro owner so that earned you a sub
And you are absolutely right about self-doubt with DIY projects I'm currently working on a 3D printed F1 car scale model and I had lots of self doubt about how good it will look but Never Give Up
That’s right! Never give up! 🤙
A vacuum port on the bottom side of the oven would allow you to easily form the plastic to the new tails. I haven’t made one yet but your video has definitely given me a lot of ideas and inspiration. Thank you and wonderful job!!
I think that looks fantastic man!
Thanks so much!!
Always been pretty fascinated by custom tail lights. I have a pair of custom tail lights for my truck, but I bought them pre-made. They look pretty good, but there's nothing better than custom making stuff to be exactly as you want it. Next car I get, I'm gonna be doing something like this.
Good luck!
I love the concept, and it would be cool to see a second generation with amber indicators and maybe some fancier animations (similar to what Audis do)
🤔🧐
@@IMEEMADE If any part of my comment confuses you, I'd be happy to expand haha - just lmk
The end result at the end of the video is absolutely awesome, it turned out great, well done, deffinitely inspiring!
Thank you so much!
Great video, surprised you didn't try dynamic indicators or stuff like that as well. Red for reverse just seems like a really bad idea safety wise though
bro amazing job! I like how you literally made your own lense by forming a new one with acrylic. Final result looks great too!
That looks sick!! Nice work
Thank you!!
YOOOOOO! ive been thinking of doing this on my scooter! nowadays, you have these Piaggio Vespa's that get custom designed lights with cool leds, but my old gal gets left behind! this video is a god send
Fun! Would love to see that!
It’s all fun and games until the time comes where you’ll have to replace a wire or an LED strip
Hate to change the led stripes and fix it back, and just for no reason to get shutdown
LOL @0:11 "Piece of Cra-.. -- Cut"
Modifications like this are hit and miss. With that being said, I love this kind of mod. Creative, unique and fun to do.
Good job on both the lights and the video. Very impressive.
true!. i thinkn he could have done better with the design itself, but this dude's trials here are so inspiring. I'm def not as afraid to go into a project like this on my own thanks to him!
Thanks for watching!
I really like your process. I think a couple of improvements could be made in how this was done though:
1) When forming your lens, perhaps building a vacuum former would be ideal. I've seen some made that use melamine boards, pegboard, a shopvac and silicone to achieve. Then you could get a much closer fit. It could even be worthwhile to consider making a negative template from your original lens for your new lens material so that you get an exact duplicate rather than a slightly oversized one.
2) Instead of using foil tape to secure your light separators, maybe make some posts, secured with epoxy or CA glue for those channels to attach to (via a hole and nut, or some other fastener). This, I think, would be more secure to temperature changes, whereas foil tape, I don't know how well it does. It could be an ideal tape, I'm admittedly ignorant about this product. So this suggestion I assign with an asterisk.
3) The separators don't have as straight of a line as I would like to see personally, so perhaps some c-channel aluminum or even PVC pipe split down the middle? I think this could provide much more uniform and straight lines.
Again, I love your process. Very creative and it shall be stored in my brain for potential future projects.
Came out pretty well. And I dig your sense of humor. Good video Bravo brother
Thanks for watching!
Great video! I love how approachable this is for mild DIYers such as myself (I’m always in the lookout for me to get into more extreme projects). Out of curiosity do you think you might modify your new LEDs to use clear reverse lights? I’m curious how one would go about that if yes. Also the old housings are pretty reflective when not lit up, is there a good way to add reflective material (let’s say between the LED strips) for safety like when the car is parked?
dude this is sick! I once retro fitted some HID projectors into my headlights of an Accord. Ton of work. I cant imagine designing them myself as well!
"won't catch fire" *shows it catching fire* lmaooo
Awwww, that looks SOOOO COOL on your car didn't know that car even exist til now kinda jealous, great work !
This is not allowed in my country. Yet We here in the West would like to pretend we have "freedom"
Where r u from?
@@SleepyCatto_ Belgium... lots of restrictions on vehicle modifications
@@PutsOnSneakers ah ok. I thought Hong Kong.
Cuz there you also can't do it. Sorry...
Ahhh gros la France c’est la même force a nous
I've never thought of heat molding acrylic as a replacement lens definitely an interesting project!
Not only are they unsafe and illegal, but they look way worse than the old ones!
Lol k
Like your Mustang
gw kira beat mberr
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From camera position, quick an easy commentary and end result.
I'll say you did a pretty good 👍
Thanks for watching!
I used to use the same concept in the 90's to make clear taillights for cars using florescent diffusers. Everything old is new again. 👍
for sure! can't wait until JNCO jeans makes a comeback 😂
Looks great, you may want to try polycarbonate / lexan instead of acrylic from a functional standpoint. It's not as clear looking and gets slowly sun damaged, but it It has far better impact resistance and won't shatter. Most factory headlights use polycarbonate or actual glass, if a rock were to hit an acrylic lense hard enough it could crack and shatter into pieces, although it's more likely on a headlight and not a tail light. Polycarbonate can still crack and scratch but it's far stronger than acrylic and is more shatter resistant.
Glad I stumbled upon this video. The 2022 Civic hatchback is a pretty sharp car, but everyone is doing super fancy custom work for the Sedan. Now I know the rough process to make my own one-of-a-kind lighting fixtures for my car.
Been thinking of fabbing lenses just like you did. Will give it a try.
I'm in UK, with annual road worthiness tests being compulsory. So of course having 2 set of lights is necessary, 1 stock & 1 modded. Then fitting stock lights for the testing station.
Nice, good luck! please tag so we can see your results!
Personally, I would’ve left the lights original. That said, what you did was very, very clever! I’m extremely impressed with the way you did the mod and your video skills, too.
Manufacturers should just make tail lights replacements like these for late 90's and 2000's cars, it would bring a lot of them back into life and make their designs stand out more.
Very good job, I loved the end result, and would for sure try to build one if I had half the equipment.
Word!
This is the best video on how to make custom lights imo
The result was very satisfying. You've got a good way for it, bro.
Thanks for watching!
The first 35-36 seconds of this video was enough for me to subscribe! This was enjoyable!
Thank you!!
That's awesome, always wanted to upgrade my K1200S light to look modern. Legendary DIY!
Thanks!
Just came up on my timeline this is amazing that car is SICK 🔥 the tail lights look fresh well done!!
Never heard or seen that kind of honda but it looks 100% better with your tail lights
Thanks!
Thanks for making this video! Im going to start a similar project on my first car, with halo lights. It's a 2007 Seat Ibiza so halo lights keeps with infitting with the original round design of it. Im going to reuse the clear lense already on the housing and tint it, and use amber halo for the indicators and red and white for the other lights, the only thing i need to figure out is rear fog as rear fog lights are mandatory on all cars in the UK so I need to either re use the original fog bulb which can just stay where it is and have a halo around it, or just use an LED for it. I'm not sure of the legality of it as its a grey area as it would pass an MOT technically. But it's definitely going to be a fun project to do, thanks for the inspiration!
Much needed info that I didn't know I needed to know. I drive an ole e39 and my tail lights are A MESS in all the rain lately..
Thank you so much for this video, its been a pain finding a shop that would do a mould for my tail lights and making a mould myself with clay/acrylic has been a huge pain until I came across your video. I purchased the same stove thing and Im finishing building my box today. Hopefully I can get this project done this week!
Right on!!
@@IMEEMADE Hey so the heat box wasnt getting the acrylic hot enough for me, my next step would be to line the inside with that insulation and find any heat leaks BUT in regards to me not wanting to wait that much longer im using my oven. Issue is that the sheet either cools down too quickly or doesnt get soft enough. I didnt buy the sheet you used as my tail lights are way longer but Ill look again.
I figured it out lmao, the "Acrylic" sheets I bought was actually polyplex... that ish is garbage to use lol.
This was an excellent vid brother, mainly because you removed ALL mystery and doubt that we can make our own tail lights using current gen LED tech.
THanks🙏🏽❤
Thank you so much!
30 seconds into the first vídeo I watch and I’m subscribed. You totally won me with that real custom shiiit. Keep it up.
Yo your beat is actually sick asf. Great video covering exactly how to make them!
My car already has led tail lamps and I still watched it through lol.
Amazing work bro.
Lol thanks for watching!
Two things I was not expecting while watching this video:
1) a Riff Raff reference.
2) the word dingle berry.
Great video, super cool project!
Expect the unexpected! Thanks for watching!
this is the coolest thing I have seen on youtube in a while
I didn't know this car existed, thought it was a custom built CRX after seeing that clip in the beginning. Then I googled "Honda Beat" and saw what I'd never heard of before. Looks like an EG6/Del Sol hybrid. I own an 88' CRX Si with the JDM 90-91' tails and bumpers. :) Most of the mods are interior, like power windows, a really high quality carpet, custom floor mats with the red "CRX Si" stitching in the middle that looks stock, alarm, humble audio setup. The mod I'd love to do the most is retrofit some HID projectors in there like I did on my daily but I'd have to find a way to grind off enough of the fluting on the glass and polish so as to allow the beam pattern to come out as intended with that sharp, colorful cutoff like the Morimotos on my daily. I'll get to it sometime...
Thanks for watching!
This is godly level 'ricing'. Respect!
big ups for that vintage riff raff clip in the beginning !
Definitely going to the junk yard to get some spare taillights for my mk4 gti and trying this. Thanks man!
awesome project. I really liked the idea of the acrylic plastic. I didn't know it could be done. Defo learned something new.
This is really Brilliant and Creative Idea my guy!! I don't need to keep searching any expensive rare headlight for the car(albino headlight) anymore! thanks BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉👍
Thanks for watching!
This looks amazing dude
Technical and humorous!! Excellent content!!
Thank you’
I was suggested these and instantly subbed! Amazing car and super cool lights!
Thank you so much!
Maaaaaaaan, the "OVEN" idea is AMAZING!
Thanks! Be careful with it tho 😅
Working on something similar and this is bigtime underselling the amount of work and planning this project took. Great video though, I'll have questions in the future.
it looks great bro, respect the hard work with passion and you have an excellent result
Thanks so much man!
I'm subscribing because of this video - glad it was a part of my recommendation feed. Well done!
Thanks for watching! Welcome aboard
This is very tempting, as it give me ideas to do with my 190e and giving it a sort of retro cyberpunk thing
Nice work! I love the Honda Beat ^-^
Thanks! 😄
The end result kinda surprised me to be honest. They turned out pretty clean. Honestly thought they were gonna look janky that middle of the mall bullshit 🤣🤣🤣 but turned out DOPE! Good work too! You did everything yourself! Look good, one of kind, and you got the practice and technique down for future builds. Awesome video bro!
Ha, thanks for watching till the end!
The oven acrylic sheet trick is clever
Such a clean build, and very well captured in the video. Great job! The end product looks absolutely beautiful🚥
Thank you 🙏
Bro, this is some of the most brilliant and creative crafting ive seen in a long time! I would have never even thought of doing something like this. Well fucking done my man!
Thanks for watching brother!