Dimpled Tail lights???
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Ya know this is funny u mentioned this. My boss has a 01 SS with the same dimpled tails your describing. The car has around 40k on it and has always been garaged kept and him and I both thought it was like that due to tail light covers. The problem is that this past weekend was the Barrett Jackson auction and we both saw a GM 02 SS pacecar for sale with strobes, etc, etc. The car only had around 5k on it and was in perfect shape. Iam also wondering if heat would be the cause of this or is it some sort of defect. I just find it hard to believe that on a car with only 5k on it that a little sunshine would cause the tail lights to dimple like that.
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Its caused by tail light covers most of the time. they trap heat, generated externally or internally doesn't matter. It can also occur from heat alone without the covers but that is less common.
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I had this happen to my old car but it did have covers on it.. I have had this Z for over 3 years and the tail lights have not dimpled.. Also there isnt any covers on these lights.. (They have started to leak water though![Sad](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies/LS1Tech/gr_sad.gif)
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Other than that I think you can try and salvage them by filling in the dimple and possibly blacking them out with nite shades. If it's a small enough dimple it won't really matter if the light doesn't shine through.