Taillight Overlays
#11
Re: Taillight Overlays
Originally Posted by 06hch2
your ignorance is hereby pardoned. its called modding, doing little things to your car to personalize it, to make it different from every other car out there, to make it yours. lots of women, and people from other planets, don't know about modding.
I've seen taillamp overlays that mask out some of the unused areas and give a distinctive look to the lamps, but as this isn't a particularly noticeable change, why bother?
But I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt by wondering if I was missing something.
Last edited by blinkard; 09-26-2006 at 06:14 AM.
#12
Re: Taillight Overlays
It is considered cool by some.
Being cool is important to some people.
Other people don't get it.
People are different; nobody is wrong.
But in this case safety is compromised.
I'd find another way to be cool.
No point being cool and dead.
Being cool is important to some people.
Other people don't get it.
People are different; nobody is wrong.
But in this case safety is compromised.
I'd find another way to be cool.
No point being cool and dead.
#14
Re: Taillight Overlays
Originally Posted by noflash
Well, personally I don't care for it.
However, I do know the brake lights are still clearly visible.
All that matters is that YOU like it.
However, I do know the brake lights are still clearly visible.
All that matters is that YOU like it.
No, they are less visible.
In many situations and with many drivers it may make the difference between being noticed or not.
This is not just a personal choice of style issue.
#15
Re: Taillight Overlays
Originally Posted by kenny
No, they are less visible.
In many situations and with many drivers it may make the difference between being noticed or not.
This is not just a personal choice of style issue.
In many situations and with many drivers it may make the difference between being noticed or not.
This is not just a personal choice of style issue.
The red may be less visible in the daytime, but forunately you have the entire car as a visual indicator that there is a car.
It is comparable to tinting your windows. Is it a safety issue that you can't see out of tinted windows?
Anyway, this is silly. I'm done.
#16
Re: Taillight Overlays
Tinting windows also reduces visiblity.
What, you think you can darken something and it doesn't darken something?
The question is if the owner cares.
It is a fact that putting on dark taillight covers make the taillights darker.
It is a fact that darkening a window makes it darker.
Safety is not black and white.
In an emergency in unfavorable lighting conditions tinted windows will make anyone a little less able to see dim things, like this scar with darkened brake lights.
Now, if you don't care then so be it.
But don't say darkening taillights make them as clearly visible as non-darkened taillights.
I'm done too.
Unless you're not.
What, you think you can darken something and it doesn't darken something?
The question is if the owner cares.
It is a fact that putting on dark taillight covers make the taillights darker.
It is a fact that darkening a window makes it darker.
Safety is not black and white.
In an emergency in unfavorable lighting conditions tinted windows will make anyone a little less able to see dim things, like this scar with darkened brake lights.
Now, if you don't care then so be it.
But don't say darkening taillights make them as clearly visible as non-darkened taillights.
I'm done too.
Unless you're not.
Last edited by kenny; 09-26-2006 at 01:33 PM.
#18
Re: Taillight Overlays
for the record, with the shade of tint i chose, the signals are still plainly visible in both bright-and-dark lighting situations. the leds in the civic's brake lights are very, very bright.