tinted or led tailights?
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tinted or led tailights?
getting the car paint freshed and installing black stripe and painting lower rear fasia. All matte black. Have found led's that are black and also looking at smoked tailights.
Car is mad red and looking for opinions.
Car is mad red and looking for opinions.
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I love the look of tinted tails and other black out mods, however since my Vette already draws enough attention I don't want to give a LEO an easy reason to pull me over.
I stuck with the regular LED halos and corner LEDs.
I stuck with the regular LED halos and corner LEDs.
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Tinted only. I was following a fellow Vette owner in our club and his were tinted and I couldn't see his brake lights during the day.
Ask yourself 2 questions.
1. Do you feel safe with tinted lights?
2. What do you like better?
Ask yourself 2 questions.
1. Do you feel safe with tinted lights?
2. What do you like better?
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I hear some cops have the little cardreader on their ticket writing machine so they can slide your credit card through. One stop shopping. Neat! 
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You are correct I got stopped 3 times in a week by the same LEO, so I went back to the stock tail lights. The same LEO saw me a few days after I changed them and he came up to the car and started reading me the riot act about illegal tail light tint, I had to take him back and show him that they were the stock lights with the DOT stamp, apparently he just assumed that I still running the tinted lights, he went stomping back to his motorcycle and left. Hasn't messed with me since.
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You are correct I got stopped 3 times in a week by the same LEO, so I went back to the stock tail lights. The same LEO saw me a few days after I changed them and he came up to the car and started reading me the riot act about illegal tail light tint, I had to take him back and show him that they were the stock lights with the DOT stamp, apparently he just assumed that I still running the tinted lights, he went stomping back to his motorcycle and left. Hasn't messed with me since.
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Unfortunately that's one of the disadvantages of living in a smaller town; if some local Dudley Do-Right gives a warning and it's disregarded or forgotten about, he's more likely to make a "project" out of you than some guy working in a big city that likely you'll never cross paths with again, especially if he's a solo, because those guys are only bout half-baked to start with.
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Tinted taillights look good, but personally I want all the light I can get on the back end of the car to ensure those following me can see the car. If it were me, I'd get the LED Halos without the tint.
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I'm with Jack on this one and that's what I'm saving up for.Okie
