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Old 04-11-2007, 08:38 AM
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i been pondering for a couple weeks now on if i want to smoke my headlights, taillights, blinker lights etc etc, or if i want to just replace the front w/ clears and just do HID lights in the front, i have a 98 white Z with the black top/T-top, i have a friend that owns a body shop so wont really cost much to have the lenses smoked, (regardless on if i smoke the lenses or not im gona get the back panel painted black just curious on other peoples opinion, thanks!
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Smoking is unhealthy.
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i think it would give a good offset to the black ZR1's wheels i got on her but ive seen the clears and those look great too
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I personally can't stand "smoked" lenses... Just looks ghetto to me. I like my lenses to retain their depth and I would recommend the same to you:

Whistler Headlights
Black Housing Clear Corners
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Did my truck at the shop came out bad ***. Just reduced the hell out of reg black paint and then cleared over it. I like them alot on alot of cars.
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Smoking is unhealthy.
+1 , it was cool at first(lenseshading and what not) but now , to tell you the truth I think stock lenses look best. A set of export tailights can be pimp though
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smoked corners (ones you buy, not DIY) look 10X better
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thanks for all the insight guys, im still up in the air, the stocks that i have do have some haze on them so i might smoke them and buy some halos too and go with the best set
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IMO White cars should get chrome everything, but if you are going with the black out theme, then definatly go with whistler, and black markers. IMO I would never tint my tailights... I always thought it was ******* cheesy...



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