How to Customize the look of your Taillights
Custom tail lights have become a huge craze in the custom automotive industry. Customizing your tails can be a simple yet affordable head turner for your ride. Whether it's easy aftermarket tail lights that slip right in or complicated custom work, if you're into customizing your ride, you may want to read on.
For those who are looking to change the look of your tail lights, you will have quite a few options. First, there are the Euro tail lights (or altezza tail lights), which are clear tail lights with colored bulbs or they can have clear outer plastic covers with colored plastic inside covering the bulbs. Euro tail lights can either have a chrome looking insert, be colored to match, or have a carbon fiber look. Also, you have the choice of LED tail lights (which are a lot brighter) or your average tail light bulb. Euro tail lights are extremely easy to find, depending on your vehicle of course, but sites like Ebay.com or any type of car accessory website you search for on google.com will more than likely carry them. The common makes for euro tail lights tend to be made for Hondas or very common cars/trucks like Civics, Cavaliers and even F150's. Be careful though, because the cheaper you go for them the cheaper it costs to make them. So, you can get faulty wiring, cheap plastic, or even improper fitting. You get what you pay for with these.
Lastly, if you are willing to spend a few extra bucks for that special custom look, you can either take on the task yourself or hire a shop to do some custom tail lights. Where you get the idea of what you want to do, will be up to you, but remember that doing this will definitely win you some points on that judging sheet and turn some heads.
Tail lights may be a small customization of your ride, but they can make a big effect and not always a good one. While this is seen as an opinion, with what I've seen on the road lately, I would like to make a suggestion. Save yourself from ridicule and customize cars that aren't falling apart. One last tip I want to remind you of is that while cheaper is easier on the wallet, what you spend is what you get especially with auto accessories. Whether it's a small or large project you decide to take on, customizing makes your car that much more of an extension of you.
