Ideas for Striping Tails
 

I really wasnt a big fan of them, but even after redding out my entire tail light im not pleased with it, and ive decided i dont want to smoke them. I did these patterns on mspaint, I think some of em look pretty good actually, but id like a second opinion, and a third, and a fourth, and so-on. lol. um well here they are and tell me what you think is best, or if you think theyre all fugly:

Stock (w/ Red Outs):


Idea A:


Idea B:


Idea C:


Idea D:


Any comments, ideas, suggestions, are welcome. Im open minded so i wont bash you if you hate em lol. just tryin to get ideas. Thanks!

Don't do it! Step away from the tails.

go big or go home

personally, i like the unmodified alero tails. its a clear indicator of what car we drive... no other car has tails like ours.

Stripping on some tails of our cars look ok but with ur car it looks really clean so leaving them how they are will look the best.

go big as in smoke them?

go big as in do the whole thing or leave it alone

true but idk, mine looks too stock, which i dont like. the only reason i brought up striping is because i wanted to see if something different would look good, but now im considering either leaving it alone or using some light smoke vinyl from rvinyl, but i wanna see how that specific product looks on an alero, n idk anyone thats used the light smoke film on here. what id really love to do is shave the trunk lights, but i dont have that kind of time and money.

heres 2 different styles

personally i dont want pitch black, i think itd contrast too much on my car, and that second alero is ugly as hell. im thinking of a light smoke, but i wanna see if anyone used that vinyl i was talking about to see how it looks first.

lol thats what the first pic is, 20% tinted, just do like 35% if u dont want it too dark

How'd you tint them? I got bored one day and tried putting some 20% on the Park Ave but the tails had too much of a contour.

But really Ralero.. dont stripe! That's all I have to say.

Anderbra, I think it is, makes custom tails. They're expensive but they look damn nice, search around on google and you'll run into his site I think.

well i guess im not gonna stripe em since 80% is saying "no" and i really wasnt too big on them anyway. btw if you used a film and tried to stick it on a contour, you should use a heat gun or a hair dryer to make it stretchy and malleable. thats what i did when i redded out my mom's rear turn signals on her yukon xl. its the same idea

You could always put pantyhose opn them!!

Gack, heatshrinking. I tried that on my rear window because it was too curved for just the film. It had bad results, haha. I'll just use niteshade whenever I get around to getting some sometime here.

if you use niteshades you can do anything you want but remember the tint melts onto your tail light so if you tape it you will have to pull it off when wet. this is what i did and i love it.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...ro/misc011.jpg

Ya, nothing like blocking out 2/3 of your brake lights so the guy behind you can't see you stopping.

that looks really badass.. but unsafe

DONT... especially the edging, contoured pinstriping... or risk looking like my car a few years ago. Yeh i pinstriped the side of the car as well, later. *shudders*


lookie here :
http://www.aleromod.com/forums/attac...1&d=1172644515

^yikes

pantyhose FTW haha

agreed

nice pinstripes candace...not

hahaha wow it looks worse in chrome and on an actual photo =X

I like my taillights, like I like my women...naked...don't do it man

Yeah everybody that does it regrets it. spend your time and money elsewhere ;)

Hells yeah!!! :)

damn candace talk about bad taste

I have my tails pin striped, I think it looks very good..

I have mine pinstriped with the reverse light area clear of pin striping and a large vinyl stripe between the tops and bottoms of the light..

It looks really good..

I'll get pics if anyone gives a dam..

Thats why you do the 4 brake lights mod. Then its still hella bright.

hey guys give me a break, we all go through our ricer stages... some worse than others!

Sure go ahead. :D

I think they'd look pretty good Chromed out with LED's.

wow candace... quite ugly tails

yeh yeh i get it!!!! that was years ago though i didnt even have my razzi then, see??? I have had this car well before i even got my license...it was bound to go through all my 'phases' with me.
point is i was trying to convince him not to pinstripe, lol.

pretty convincing deturant. hahaha

lol, agreed.

i really like grims but i dont know how tinted would look on a red alero

i think theyd look great on a red alero, cuz black and red look great, but i think maybe just leaving them as-is for a white one would be best.

As long as we're on the topic of tail lights, I figured I'd share this. I spent a few minutes in photoshop last week and came up with these. I know the pictures aren't awesome quality and this is not what I'm planning for my car or anything like that, just basically another possibility for those that like to get into their bodywork. I think it could look half decent if done right.

Blacked out housing Lexus IS300 tail lights: