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Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out #431385 Mar 31, 8:26pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland well i did a few mods over this dreadfull winter as some of you ohio poeple know , but heres my car before winter then some pics after , enjoy Last edited by Vlad; Mar 31, 2005 8:27pm.

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431386 Mar 31, 8:29pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland after

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431387 Mar 31, 8:31pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland front w painted foglights and sidemarkers

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431388 Mar 31, 8:32pm Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 245 north carolina silverbeast Member 2000 Toyota Celica silverbeast Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 245 north carolina

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431389 Mar 31, 8:34pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland taillights

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out silverbeast #431390 Mar 31, 8:34pm Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 945 Nassau,NY PnOyGtS Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica PnOyGtS Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 945 Nassau,NY nice

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431391 Mar 31, 8:37pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland finished product, they came out great but black gets dusty realy quick so you might see some that i tried to wipe off

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431392 Mar 31, 9:01pm Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 106 celica209 Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT celica209 Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 106 what clear coat did you use on the tail lights?

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out celica209 #431393 Mar 31, 9:04pm Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 102 Anaheim/Palmdale/Whatever t12ansf0rmer Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT t12ansf0rmer Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 102 Anaheim/Palmdale/Whatever not a fan of smoked taillights

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out t12ansf0rmer #431394 Mar 31, 9:08pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland i used dupli color enamel clear coat

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out t12ansf0rmer #431395 Mar 31, 9:08pm Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 636 Palmdale, California mrluilou Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT mrluilou Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 636 Palmdale, California Great job on the lights i dont know bout painting the fogs though

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out mrluilou #431396 Mar 31, 9:10pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland nah you cant even see the fogs but i painted them blue with glass paint il get some pics later with them turned on it looks nice

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431397 Mar 31, 9:37pm Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,869 Washington cycocelica daman 2000 Toyota Celica GT cycocelica daman 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,869 Washington you smoked your fogs?? can we say retard

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out cycocelica #431398 Mar 31, 9:40pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland before you make stupid coments liek callin me a retard, read previouse post i said i painted them with BLUE GLASS PAINT which makes them light up blue NOT BLACK TINT

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431399 Mar 31, 10:23pm Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,417 Florida SmutasticGT Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica GT SmutasticGT Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,417 Florida sweet, i love the wingless look, and the smoked tails look soo sick what kind of paint did you use ?

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out SmutasticGT #431400 Apr 1, 12:04am Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland i used vht tail light tint

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431401 Apr 1, 12:35am Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 375 Michigan Sparty Member 2000 Toyota Celica Sparty Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 375 Michigan damn, i think i just made a decission to paint my tails.. was it hard? mind throwing in a link on how to do this? im lazy to search but great job, looks cool.

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Sparty #431402 Apr 1, 3:57am Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,546 Pennsylvania sbocaj55 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica sbocaj55 Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,546 Pennsylvania Looks great bro glad everything worked out. What I might do is create a how-to instructional since a lot of guys have asked me. Then a lot of guys will probably do their taillights themselves instead of going to me..but oh well. Thanks for the props for guiding you through this Last edited by sbocaj55; Apr 1, 2005 4:01am.

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out sbocaj55 #431403 Apr 1, 7:27am Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL wow ur car looks awsome buddy. keep upt he great work

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out hombredelassrtas #431404 Apr 1, 7:46am Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 797 Calgary, Alberta shox Senior Member 2003 Toyota Celica GT shox Senior Member 2003 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 797 Calgary, Alberta Looking good!

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out shox #431405 Apr 1, 7:51am Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 427 Calgary, AB, Canada speed_celica Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica speed_celica Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 427 Calgary, AB, Canada I'm interested to see how the fog lights will turn out! If it doesn't look too ricy maybe I'll do that too!

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out speed_celica #431406 Apr 1, 10:32am Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland here i have kinda an old pic of fogs looks better at night but heres an idea

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431407 Apr 1, 10:35am Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland hardest part in painting them was gettin the painters tape lined up on the reverse section, but painting it not a big problem. you mess up just wetsand it down and put another coat , wetsanding was a key thing to make them look great after doing these tails i feel like i can paint anything

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431408 Apr 1, 12:25pm Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 1,899 Maryland Gen7fan ThE iRoN mAiDeN 2003 Toyota Celica GT Gen7fan ThE iRoN mAiDeN 2003 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 1,899 Maryland I like that alot!

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Gen7fan #431409 Apr 1, 3:00pm Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 66 WA, Seattle johnsm Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT johnsm Member 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 66 WA, Seattle how many inches is that lowered?

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out johnsm #431410 Apr 1, 4:13pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland its eibach sportlines , 2.4 back 1.8 front

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431411 Apr 1, 5:59pm Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,296 Orlando/Gainesville, FL bmw52786 Specialist 2001 Toyota Celica GT bmw52786 Specialist 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,296 Orlando/Gainesville, FL car looks real good! love the tails

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out bmw52786 #431412 Apr 1, 6:07pm Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 278 Houtzdale, PA VSCelica24 Member 2001 Toyota Celica VSCelica24 Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 278 Houtzdale, PA Awesome I love the tails

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out VSCelica24 #431413 Apr 1, 10:27pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 754 Columbus, Ohio FastCelicaGT22 Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT FastCelicaGT22 Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 754 Columbus, Ohio good work...looks hot "If your not the lead Dog the View never Changes"

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out FastCelicaGT22 #431414 Apr 2, 2:29pm Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 163 Veilside Celica GTS Member Veilside Celica GTS Member Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 163 Yeah... You did a nice job on the tails Vlad haha.

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Veilside Celica GTS #431415 Apr 2, 6:35pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland thnx juliya lol i give you most the credit for the help wouldnt have looked as good if i didnt wetsand or should i say if you didnt wetsand, thnx for the help, did you paint ur headlights yet? how you like this weather saturday im surprised i didnt crash

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431416 Apr 2, 7:40pm Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,694 Tampa, Florida Polykarb Metal Storm 2040 2000 Toyota Celica Polykarb Metal Storm 2040 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,694 Tampa, Florida You're gonna get pulled over if you have your fogs on while driving at night, FYI.

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Polykarb #431417 Apr 2, 7:50pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland umm done it before its fine didnt get pulled over anyways , if i do il take paint off its not hard or paint purple or somin , so far so good

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431418 Apr 3, 11:38am Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 822 Northern VA GTQuentin Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT GTQuentin Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 822 Northern VA does light still shine through the tails good? o and i think the clear corners before they were tinted flow better w/ur car. Last edited by GTQuentin; Apr 3, 2005 12:45pm.

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out GTQuentin #431419 Apr 3, 5:52pm Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 20 Colorado doady22 Member 2000 Toyota Celica GTS doady22 Member 2000 Toyota Celica GTS Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 20 Colorado what did you use to paint the foglights? They look really good If you can't beat em, spends lots of money to make ur car faster, or if ur a pun tang take the ass whoppin and walk away!

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out doady22 #431420 Apr 3, 7:35pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland the light shines good through tails , i think il be fine with that, clear corners i like them a lot black better, im doing silver and black so it goes better i think i dont regret it... the foglights i just painted with some glass paint my cuzin had i dono wat its called go to some craft store and find it because i gave it back

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431421 Apr 3, 7:54pm Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,977 San Diego, CA Zero Furi Kuri 2002 Toyota Celica GT Zero Furi Kuri 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,977 San Diego, CA you need to tint you headlight to complete the blacked-out look. I've mastered the art of the After Image Technique.

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Zero #431422 Apr 3, 8:57pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Vlad Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 394 Cleveland yea i prob wil soon but not likes urs il prob do the inside, have to wait for this snow to clear up , can you believe it we had like crap load of snow on spring break 2 days after it was like 65 degrees stupid cleveland

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Vlad #431423 Apr 4, 6:27am Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,977 San Diego, CA Zero Furi Kuri 2002 Toyota Celica GT Zero Furi Kuri 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,977 San Diego, CA ^^^you still have snow? that sucks. I've mastered the art of the After Image Technique.

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Zero #431424 Apr 4, 7:11am Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 992 Springfield, MO Celica2k Jace 2000 Toyota Celica GT Celica2k Jace 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 992 Springfield, MO you should have left it alone

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Zero #431425 Apr 4, 7:17am Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL someone else did that to his fogs, but much darker blue. i tried to tell him its going to flag cops but so far nothing i say spend the money on spark blues and is more legal...ish

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out hombredelassrtas #431426 Apr 4, 5:01pm Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 100 Ohio Super_celica Member 2001 Toyota Celica Super_celica Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 100 Ohio Looks great man, yea the winter here in ohio was rough, I lost power for 11 days

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Super_celica #431427 Apr 4, 5:34pm Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 242 St. Louis Designer_GTS Member 2000 Toyota Celica Designer_GTS Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 242 St. Louis Your car looks great, I love the silver and black!

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Designer_GTS #431428 Apr 6, 3:50pm Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 112 FL YourNameHere Member 2000 Toyota Celica YourNameHere Member 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 112 FL Honestly, your fogs turned out a lot better than I thought they would when I initially read this post. I just don't like how they clash with your blue parking lights. (sorry I'm anal about that stuff) Interesting mod though

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out YourNameHere #431429 Apr 7, 8:49am Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 227 Ireland Marlyman Member 1999 Toyota Celica GTS JDM Marlyman Member 1999 Toyota Celica GTS JDM Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 227 Ireland that looks class

Re: Painted Tail lights, side markers , lowered my car check it out Marlyman #431430 Apr 7, 9:47am Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,304 West Chester, Ohio SLVCELI Specialist 2002 Toyota Celica GT SLVCELI Specialist 2002 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,304 West Chester, Ohio I must say the tails look sweet BETWEEN WHO YOU ARE AND WHO YOU COULD BE BETWEEN HOW IT IS AND HOW IT SHOULD BE

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