Tailight Replacement

Tribecrist · Post by **Tribecrist** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:58 pm

Opinions.....

http://www.stylinconcepts.com/part.aspx ... egoryID/25

AZS10Crew · Post by **AZS10Crew** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:15 pm

Not the worst I've seen.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:41 pm

To me it looks Ford-like

snocat1 · Post by **snocat1** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:48 pm

Maybe paint the flat black the color of our crews and then maybe

Post by **Walt** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:38 am

Jim wrote:To me it looks Ford-like

I'm getting a set of those! I love the look, plus my local body shop manager will paint them to match my truck for free

SONOMA915 · Post by **SONOMA915** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:14 am

I have those taillights. I opted to paint them the color of my truck, I think it looks alot cleaner.

Tribecrist · Post by **Tribecrist** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:12 pm

Sonoma915 ~ Do you have a pic??

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:59 pm

I have them on my truck in chrome

snocat1 · Post by **snocat1** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:40 am

Those look good.But uf go with the flat black I would paint them the color of the crew.

SONOMA915 · Post by **SONOMA915** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:25 am

Sorry I dont have a pic. I can tell you that I get alot of compliments from othes s series owners. If you get the lights you can always have a sticker put on that is the same color as you truck. You can get a rough idea that way.

Tribecrist · Post by **Tribecrist** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:19 am

My crew is black and I was planning on painting it the same color (satin black) as i did my center grill piece

SONOMA915 · Post by **SONOMA915** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:20 am

Hey Tribe where did you get that pre runner light bar? I have been looking for one like that for a while? Sorry to be off subject

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:24 pm

thats not his truck its Steves in the link
I think it might be a Fabteck bar

JimmyDiamond · Post by **JimmyDiamond** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:01 am

Please don't! Those type of tails should be kept on riceboy cars, not trucks.

Something that looks good depending on the color or your truck is tinting your stock taillights. I had them done on my S-10.

Steve

Swoosh · Post by **Swoosh** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:25 am

Ooh!!! I like the tinted stock lights. How do you go about doing that? Is it done with regular window tint or is there a different approach?

JimmyDiamond · Post by **JimmyDiamond** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:25 pm

Swoosh wrote:Ooh!!! I like the tinted stock lights. How do you go about doing that? Is it done with regular window tint or is there a different approach?

I didn't do mine, a guy on another S-series forum was selling the service. What he does is first sands the lights smooth with a fine grit sandpaper to remove dot stampings etc. He then uses black paint in a spray gun and applies light coats until the desired darkness is achieved. Once he's done painting he then applies a couple coats of clear. The result is very nice.

The guy that did my S-10 lights I don't think does it anymore but I know of another guy from that forum that does. I'm going to have him to the lights on my Jimmy. The tinted tails look better on darker colored vehicles.

JimmyDiamond · Post by **JimmyDiamond** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:28 pm

Here's a before and after I did when I installed them

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Actually with the red truck color, the stock blended in better than the tinted!

Swoosh · Post by **Swoosh** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:35 am

Thanks for the info. I may consider it, but you're right about the red tails blending better with the red paint. By the way, your ZQ8 sure was a beauty.

JimmyDiamond · Post by **JimmyDiamond** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:53 am

Swoosh wrote:Thanks for the info. I may consider it, but you're right about the red tails blending better with the red paint. By the way, your ZQ8 sure was a beauty.

Thanks

It was my toy but once the baby came along a regular cab with bucket seats kinda became useless. I sold it with a whopping 14k miles on it after almost 2 years. I didn't want the Bonneville to be the vehicle we always had to drive so I bought the Jimmy that way we would have 2 vehicles we could all ride in.