Orange/ Blue Tailight Lens Project!

Hi all! I recently did. something I thought I’d share. It’s definitely one of those DIY projects that will divide opinion and I myself am not convinced I like what I’ve done ( specific to the orange bit 🤣)

Background: I’ve always felt that the clear lens section on the A2’s taillight was lovely but abit dull and ‘ brownish’. Either due to the way the light bounces off the orange signal bulb? Or the manner it was designed. But the clear brownish lens made the taillights look super dated in my opinion.

Idea: I’ve done this successfully on a Honda Fit in the past and it came out brilliant. So the idea was to get light blue and orange stickers, and to stick over the clear portions of the taillights.

Let me know what you think! I’ve added before/ after photos. I really like the crisp blue on the reverse lens area. But I’m still not sure if I truly like the orange bits over the signal lens portion. Makes it look too 90s JDM Honda Civic Racer car I feel.

But I’ll keep the orange on for now and see if it grows on me. Failing which, I’ll just cover the signal lens portion with the light blue too!

Just thought I’d share! 🙂
 

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Had early cars been issued with Amber lenses and later with clear lenses I would imagine the early car owners would have been "upgrading" to clear and as most cars have clear lenses I strongly believe many folk would chose Amber these days if it was an option as its now quite retro!
Personally I really like it, means no more need for painted bulbs which cost a lot more and generally the paint fails before the bulb does!

Please share how this was achieved!!
 
Had early cars been issued with Amber lenses and later with clear lenses I would imagine the early car owners would have been "upgrading" to clear and as most cars have clear lenses I strongly believe many folk would chose Amber these days if it was an option as its now quite retro!
Personally I really like it, means no more need for painted bulbs which cost a lot more and generally the paint fails before the bulb does!

Please share how this was achieved!!
Thanks Howey! Definitely getting divided opinions. I myself would prefer no orange and just the light blue for both signal and reverse lenses.

Here are the links to the stickers I used:

1. Light blue ( local and super fast shipping): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26155016...ar=560424831022&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

2. Orange ( from china and super slow, but the orange I wanted): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40374769...ar=673660493287&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Both are of really good quality and easy to stick on. Hope this helps! The first vendor for the light blue has other colour options too!
 
Hi all, a small update!

So I felt the orange lens stickers were too much and I got sick of them quite quick. Took the car back 20yrs and I didn’t like that.

I then tried red lens stickers and I quite like the final result! So red on the signal lens and blue on the reverse lens.

I find this to be the nicest, cleanest combination so far and the car just looks proper.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
 

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