Great video. What a ton of work. Results look great, very unique. I've never met a car guy that wants to build a car identical to someone else's. (Excluding movie prop cars.) That butyl tape is interesting stuff. Mahalo for sharing! : )

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gary, you're the best!

@Maaaaaax-07

Жыл бұрын

There's a lot of car that look the same tbh, especially some FRS/GR86/BRZ builds or some WRX build

@FriedTendi

Жыл бұрын

You should fix your reverse lights they are tinted red and that's not legal and will probably confuse people. The turn signals being red is ok but not ideal

@RfAlSiTpA

Жыл бұрын

03 G35 on deck less go with the ideas

@xlajcikxyolo6201

Жыл бұрын

@@IMEEMADE 6

Just a heads up for anyone wanting to do this, you gotta have white reverse lights. Other than that, great build and the final result looks great. Though id definately go with the second revision you mention in the video. I personally prefer seperate amber turn signals. The combo turn and brake lights add ambiguity to the system. Not to mention in europe you have to have amber turn signals anyway

@OkammakO

Жыл бұрын

Easy fix, just remove the reverse gear from your transmission.

@undefinednotfound

Жыл бұрын

for reverse light, you can install external white light at the back.

@22Epic

Жыл бұрын

who use reverve ?

@y.k.7737

Жыл бұрын

If you're in Europe, don't even think about it. It's not checked whether your lights fulfill the requirements but whether they are approved for this kind of car which can cost tens of thousands of dollars

@lidge1994

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure most of this custom tail light is illegal in Europe

legitimately one of the best, most accessible diy videos Ive ever seen about tail light mods that go this deep. jeebus nice work

@lucasduck95

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful video

And to think I was about to drop $700 for some custom led tail lights. This is just what I was looking for!!!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Right on! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions during the build. I'd love to see the finished product!

@Maaaaaax-07

Жыл бұрын

Did you do it ? If so How much did it cost you ?

@Meekmillan

Жыл бұрын

WHERE LOL everywhere I look for my car custom tails start at $1000 with the ones I actually want being more like $1400

@Maaaaaax-07

Жыл бұрын

@@Meekmillan Are you going to dyi it?

@SurfTheStreets01

Жыл бұрын

yikes, they arn't legal. just be careful out there

I really like this. Personally I would've used less leds for regular tail lights and then used more for the brake portion. That way it's easier for cars behind you to know when you're braking. Too small of a brake light can be really hard to notice.

@jackass123455

Жыл бұрын

you can add resistors to "dull" the driving lights and with a diode can even use the same string of leds for both brake and driving creating a "high /low intensity" setting

@uvwuvw-ol3fg

Жыл бұрын

@@jackass123455 Why waste energy with resistors if it's normally done with PWM or constant current regulator.

@dooby1445

Жыл бұрын

@@uvwuvw-ol3fg The "wasted energy" is so miniscule it shouldn't even be considered.

@yaishmatheen4274

Жыл бұрын

@@dooby1445 i think he meant effort when this can already be done way more easily without resistors

@andrewholdaway813

Жыл бұрын

I don't think practicality (or legality) was even on the list of requirements

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR! There's so many videos out there that talk about making custom taillights, but none of them ever outline the entire process start to finish. They're always either using premade parts, or only talk about the tech or removing/installing the lens. Truly incredible work, and I applaud you for showing and reflecting upon your mistakes. Keep it up!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching all the way!

Ive always considered amber LEDs for rear turn signal to be superior and wish cars in America would do this more instead of red turn signals

@Mookaton

11 ай бұрын

I don't think there are many at all with red turn signals. The only ones that come to mind are cars with sequential turn signals like a Ford Mustang.

@fosty.

6 ай бұрын

​@@Mookaton No, there definitely are.

@T10Titan

5 ай бұрын

tons of cars have red glass over it all causing it to be just be red.@@Mookaton

@jaxithfox

2 ай бұрын

​@Mookaton Red turn lights are incredibly common in the US. Majority of anything truck runs red only at the rear.

Bro this video is great editing, not boring at all, keep up the good work! I was exactly looking for something like this.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

I very rarely comment on videos but this was too impressive not to. Been delving into automotive DIY over the past 10ish years (wiring, LEDs, etc) and always dreamt of being able to do this. Having unique taste and being hardheaded is a deadly combo but often leads to incredible results. Awesome job dude and thank you!

Fellow automotive KZreadr here and I must say, your video is awesome. Great quality, great shots, great editing, and great commentary. Keep up the great work and wishing you the best with your channel. 😎🤙🏼

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and sticking around! Much love! ✌️

Amazing! I've been mulling over how to make custom taillights for my '89 Celica and this just popped up in my feed! Great video, nice that you didn't shy away from showing the jank.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

For future, you can make curved LED shapes by sticking the LED tape along the side of the C-shaped foil you cut, although you would actually use "

@Sinjinator

Жыл бұрын

Good to know! 👍

this really is one of those "trust the method" sort of things hey? it would be so intimidating when youre half way through one, and then knowing you need to make the other one match. Really impressive. Looks sweet!

For someone who's planning on doing a custom job on my own car, this has definitely been an informative video regarding the process and things to keep in mind. Mine will however be much more complex, but that's exactly why something like this helps a lot. Thank you

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Happy building!

@sean640

Ай бұрын

Did you get around to it yet?

@morpheon_xyz

Ай бұрын

@@sean640 almost there. Decided to go with 3D printing instead as my other options just didn't accommodate my requirements and the design style I'm going for. Just ordered my 3D printer the other day, plus I also already got the LEDs I'll be testing to accommodate the changes, so the prototyping continues. Also worked on the code for the Arduino / ESP32 that'll add customization for "show mode", so I'm excited to report that progress is being made. I'll outsource the lazer cutting of acrylic sheets to a contact of mine once I've got the majority of the design done. Once the rear is done I'll rework the front as I went with 7" jeep lights and a single debadged grille for my Mk1 golf in the meantime

@sean640

Ай бұрын

@@morpheon_xyz awesome 🙌 looking forward to seeing what you ocme up with too

This is incredible dude. Thanks so much for sharing this!

I used that oven trick to replace the lens on my car's headlights. I messed up when restoring them, and decided to just buy some aftermarket replacements. They were so cheap that I couldn't align them correctly. (The beam was too high) So I just swapped the new clear lens onto the original headlight assembly. Works perfectly, and the headlights looked brand new :D

This is incredible man. I LOVE seeing passionate people make what they want in their own shops. This is going in my playlist for when I finally get the guts to do it myself lol

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Please tag me on the results, would love to see what you make!

@personalname2056

Жыл бұрын

Get the GUTS?!

@ThreeBrosUnite

Жыл бұрын

Seriously, @imeemade: man, this is superb.

Tip for spreading sealant into tight/close areas is to use acid brushes and trimming the bristles by about half to increase the precision where it goes. Excellent video!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!!

I'm amazed how good that replacement lens came out for what is effectively half of a DIY vacuformer. Really cool to see how clean you can do with determination.

They look great man! Good on you. Most people (including myself) don't have the courage to do this sort of thing. You have no just a custom part but a completley personal and hand made one. Only you have it and you'll have people asking you where you got them from and will feel amazing to say "Made them myself they're one offs" Keep it up!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

This video is exactly what I needed! Even the part about the self doubt 😅

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

😅😅 what's a project without a little existential crisis

Worked out better than I expected, this is something I’ve wanted to try for ages. There are ways you can get white and orange to show through a red lens, lots of modern cars pull this off, I believe there’s a colour filter over the LEDs to cancel out the red. Good work 👍👍

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm that's interesting! Thanks for the heads up!

@kip8790

Жыл бұрын

Green filter will be yellow through a red lens.

@highnoon4515

Жыл бұрын

@@IMEEMADE yeee you can make white thats how rgb works you have red soo tou need to find out what exacly color do you need to make it white , rgb works like this 3 main colours that make white when they combine you can just wire blue and green bec you have red already i mean by that red plastic from stops idk if gonna work this eay bec stop red is not a lighting soo maybe not gonna work but try anyway

@JasonWD

Жыл бұрын

@@highnoon4515 sooooo…. Make a white LED and put it under the red Acrylic? Yeah, that’s _exactly_what IMEEMADE did, without “making” a white LED.

It looks so much better. Very nice work.

Excellent video man, I've been looking to do this for a friends car and I really like your process! Thanks for detailing it so well!

Your content is so chill and at the same time hilarious and I see you are a fellow ender 3 pro owner so that earned you a sub And you are absolutely right about self-doubt with DIY projects I'm currently working on a 3D printed F1 car scale model and I had lots of self doubt about how good it will look but Never Give Up

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

That’s right! Never give up! 🤙

this is EXACTLY what i was looking for THANKS MAN SUBSCRIBED! side note i may try this with a homemade vacuum former

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Right on! Thanks for watching!

dude this is sick! I once retro fitted some HID projectors into my headlights of an Accord. Ton of work. I cant imagine designing them myself as well!

Such a clean build, and very well captured in the video. Great job! The end product looks absolutely beautiful🚥

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

That looks sick!! Nice work

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

I think that looks fantastic man!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!

The end result at the end of the video is absolutely awesome, it turned out great, well done, deffinitely inspiring!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Absolutely amazing, def gets my creative juices flowing. Thank you for sharing this with us!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

wow incredible work! i was shocked to see this only had 5k views! this should be viral :)

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Black acrylic could also work, giving that same dark taillight look whilst retaining the colours of the LEDs beneath it, although do note that the LEDs have to be significantly brighter in that case.

This is great! Thanks for including all the steps

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I really like this style of video. You don't have crazy expensive tools, you use common sense and patience. Good job.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

This is amazing, impressive work! I do wish my CR-Z had that diffused LED look rather than the exposed LED style, but it is a product of the early 2010s.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like it’s time for you to do your own mod!

I really like how you showed how its like to do a diy project. Nothing goes like you planned, you just gotta compromise and adapt your diy project to the circumstances you are forced with

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Haha yup! It’s always a shit show

Entertaining, straight to the point and inspirational. Good work!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great video man! Been looking for a step by step on how to do this for a while! Thanks!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!!

Great video! I love how approachable this is for mild DIYers such as myself (I’m always in the lookout for me to get into more extreme projects). Out of curiosity do you think you might modify your new LEDs to use clear reverse lights? I’m curious how one would go about that if yes. Also the old housings are pretty reflective when not lit up, is there a good way to add reflective material (let’s say between the LED strips) for safety like when the car is parked?

That's alot of work but the reward looks so worth it.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Definitely happy with the results ☺️

This is amazing, thank you for going over everyting in detail.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching all the way!

Amazing work!

Great video, surprised you didn't try dynamic indicators or stuff like that as well. Red for reverse just seems like a really bad idea safety wise though

The main issue is that all of your lights are red. White for reversing and orange/amber for signals is as you said the better way.

Just came up on my timeline this is amazing that car is SICK 🔥 the tail lights look fresh well done!!

You are an absolute genius, please make more ❤❤❤

I love the concept, and it would be cool to see a second generation with amber indicators and maybe some fancier animations (similar to what Audis do)

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

🤔🧐

@wilkgr

Жыл бұрын

@@IMEEMADE If any part of my comment confuses you, I'd be happy to expand haha - just lmk

I really like your process. I think a couple of improvements could be made in how this was done though: 1) When forming your lens, perhaps building a vacuum former would be ideal. I've seen some made that use melamine boards, pegboard, a shopvac and silicone to achieve. Then you could get a much closer fit. It could even be worthwhile to consider making a negative template from your original lens for your new lens material so that you get an exact duplicate rather than a slightly oversized one. 2) Instead of using foil tape to secure your light separators, maybe make some posts, secured with epoxy or CA glue for those channels to attach to (via a hole and nut, or some other fastener). This, I think, would be more secure to temperature changes, whereas foil tape, I don't know how well it does. It could be an ideal tape, I'm admittedly ignorant about this product. So this suggestion I assign with an asterisk. 3) The separators don't have as straight of a line as I would like to see personally, so perhaps some c-channel aluminum or even PVC pipe split down the middle? I think this could provide much more uniform and straight lines. Again, I love your process. Very creative and it shall be stored in my brain for potential future projects.

Really cool project, and well edited video. The outcome looks very modern. 👍

Looks great, nicely done!

They're gorgeous they actually look more dated than anything in a retro futuristic way as in what they thought the future would look like in the seventies under the constraints of the technology they had....

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

I get what you mean. Thank you!

This is not allowed in my country. Yet We here in the West would like to pretend we have "freedom"

@SleepyCatto_

2 ай бұрын

Where r u from?

@PutsOnSneakers

2 ай бұрын

@@SleepyCatto_ Belgium... lots of restrictions on vehicle modifications

@SleepyCatto_

2 ай бұрын

@@PutsOnSneakers ah ok. I thought Hong Kong. Cuz there you also can't do it. Sorry...

Awesome video and great skills!

I love them and the car idk what it is but it looks awesome im a truck guy so this should be an eye opener of how clean your car is

customing lights for 5 years, well its time consuming work and ppl cant understand it so often xd... well

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Haha people don't like fun things it seems. Thanks so much for watching!

@Quesune

Жыл бұрын

@@IMEEMADE np :) check out my works on Lumen Noise

gw kira beat mberr

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

🤓

Glad I stumbled upon this video. The 2022 Civic hatchback is a pretty sharp car, but everyone is doing super fancy custom work for the Sedan. Now I know the rough process to make my own one-of-a-kind lighting fixtures for my car.

This looks incredible, great video!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Not only are they unsafe and illegal, but they look way worse than the old ones!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Lol k

@charisma7268

Жыл бұрын

Like your Mustang

Very, very cool. Thank you so much for sharing this project! As a person who owns a car with pretty much zero aftermarket parts available to buy, DIY seems to be the only option. Hopefully over the coming months I’ll have done enough research and be confident enough to give it a shot.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you got it!

bro amazing job! I like how you literally made your own lense by forming a new one with acrylic. Final result looks great too!

This looks amazing dude

New and different approach with great info super cool! thanks!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thx for watching!

This was an excellent vid brother, mainly because you removed ALL mystery and doubt that we can make our own tail lights using current gen LED tech. THanks🙏🏽❤

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Fantastic video ! Thank you for the time you spent to make this

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Subscribed instantly when I saw the riff raff meme. Much love. This is amazing content and subject. Awesome job and video. Can’t wait to see what else you do

dude this is VERY impressive! great job, this looks amazing

Really nice. Thanks for the vid

That looks GREAT on the Beat, great work man 👍🏼

Looks good, thanks for sharing the process!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching all the way!

That's awesome, always wanted to upgrade my K1200S light to look modern. Legendary DIY!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Dang that was one of the most creative videos I've seen in a while. Great job I learned a lot

awesome project. I really liked the idea of the acrylic plastic. I didn't know it could be done. Defo learned something new.

Love this Honda you customized.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

These came out freaking sick!

This is godly level 'ricing'. Respect!

Always been pretty fascinated by custom tail lights. I have a pair of custom tail lights for my truck, but I bought them pre-made. They look pretty good, but there's nothing better than custom making stuff to be exactly as you want it. Next car I get, I'm gonna be doing something like this.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Good luck!

it looks great bro, respect the hard work with passion and you have an excellent result

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much man!

This is very tempting, as it give me ideas to do with my 190e and giving it a sort of retro cyberpunk thing

this is freaking awesome. Great vid

Amazing video I think that Honda Beat looks amazing as well ❤❤❤

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😁

Awesome video, this is what I was looking for.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I used to use the same concept in the 90's to make clear taillights for cars using florescent diffusers. Everything old is new again. 👍

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

for sure! can't wait until JNCO jeans makes a comeback 😂

beautiful work

Technical and humorous!! Excellent content!!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you’

that looks really good!

Exactly what we wanted ❤❤

These look insane! Such a good job.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

holy heck - amazing DIY. this is the kind of car content im into! TRUE DIY! Subbed for sure. Love the crazy ideas and just going for it! Cheers m8

Dude, that looks so good! A job, most certainly, well done!

The whole way through the video, I was saying out loud what I thought you should do for the next step, and then you did. Lol. I think I WAY underestimate my ability to take on more projects outside of what I normally tackle! Really awesome job. Earned a sub for sure. My brother would get a kick out of this, too.

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

You should give it a try! You got this

That looks incredible!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

A vacuum port on the bottom side of the oven would allow you to easily form the plastic to the new tails. I haven’t made one yet but your video has definitely given me a lot of ideas and inspiration. Thank you and wonderful job!!

Great job man, incredible video!

That was a great vid! Great job too! That's a bit different way to diy lights I haven't seen yet. Very cool and gives me some different ideas I can do by incorporating some of your techniques. Thanks!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

It looks great! Awesome job! 👌🏻👍🏻🔥🔥🔥

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Amazing craftmanship!

@IMEEMADE

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

absolutely slick