Lenses on the back bumper

turbocad6 said:
guys, I hate to put a damper on things, but cars have reflectors in the rear for a reason, & yes, dot regulations do state that all cars must have rear facing red reflectors. I'm not crazy about how they look either on my black fx, but I wouldn't want to totally loose the rear reflectors either... would suck to wind up having my fx rear ended for the sake of a mod...

if you ever get stuck or even parked on the side of a dark road the difference in visability to on comming traffic is huge... with reflectors your car is visable from 1000'+, without them they may not see you till it's too late to react,you may not realize that ALL cars have them because some cars have reflectors built into the tailights...

when I build my custom tailights I'll build reflectors into them more than likely, then can eliminate the bumper ones safely... you do what you want, not looking to slam anyone but posting this just for those that weren'rt aware of the fact that all cars do need, or should have rear reflectors...
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Agreed... you are right from a DOT standpoint. But there is a price to pay to look good!
 
Tried a couple different types of reflective silver tape with no luck. Even though the reflector is inset you can still see the color difference between it the body color. Had the front windows tinted the other day and asked the tech to apply a medium overlay on the reflectors and they look better, not so bright-red. I have some paint work coming up in the near future and i think what I'll end up doing is having them sprayed to match the body. I'd really like to get them filled in.....not sure how that would look with having more work done though.
 
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