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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 10:29 AM
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I have a silver 02 Z28 and was wondering what everyone thinks would be best for my car clear corner lenses like the ones I have, or the smoked ones. My front right corner lens is now leaking water and keeps blowing my turn signal bulb!!! Seems to be from the heat of the bulb warping the plastic where the bulb screws in! Also is there an LED type bulb I can put in there to reduce the heat??? Here is a pic of the car. Also if I do change to the smoked ones should I change the rear corners to smoked also? I have the clear ones in the rear as of right now also.


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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 11:12 AM
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Clear, I'm just not a fan of the smoked look. They look dirty inside to me.
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 11:36 AM
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I would say it depends on what the rest of your car looks like. If you have the stock headlights stick with the clear corners. By your sig, I would say just remove them, seal them back up properly, and reinstall them.
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 11:37 AM
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 11:42 AM
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depends, ig\f you plan on doing any headlight mods like the whistler mod or black halos i would do smoked corners but if you were gonna keep the stock headlights or do clear halos go with the clear corners
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 11:49 AM
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clear would look the best on silver, smoked tends to look best on dark cars
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 03:20 PM
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I vote clear.. Altho smoked would match your hideous tail lights but why would you do that!
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by 01ls1lover
I vote clear.. Altho smoked would match your hideous tail lights but why would you do that!
Actually I changed out the taillights to the stock ones!!! LOL I need to change the sig pic I guess! Also feel free to post up pics of both!!!

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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 06:42 PM
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thanx for changing the tail-lights back to stock. Was lookin at ur car and thought, "damn, sweet *** ri--------ew, nasty import tail-lights!!" I personally like the look of the smoked ones, looks more proffesional to me than the played out clears!
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 06:43 PM
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love the wheels to man, somthin different, whered ya get em?
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by gyrene2003
love the wheels to man, somthin different, whered ya get em?
Actually you can't find them anymore Eagle discontinued them in 2004 if I'm not mistaken. Got them from local tire place! I am thinking of selling them too. I get tons of comments on the wheels, I guess alot of people don't have them or havn't seen them. They are an Eagle 185
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by stroked383z
Actually I changed out the taillights to the stock ones!!! LOL I need to change the sig pic I guess! Also feel free to post up pics of both!!!

Thank god! They made me want to shoot myself everytime i looked at them..
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Old Jan 26, 2007 | 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 01ls1lover
Thank god! They made me want to shoot myself everytime i looked at them..
Yeah I like the stock ones 97-02 better too. Still would like some 93-96's too. Just to change it up everyonce in a while
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Old Jan 28, 2007 | 10:41 PM
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Go with the clear.
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