Cool brake light mod curteosy of Night-Shade (says MAZDA)

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » December 7th, 2009, 11:38 pm

I will get a pic of it shortly from the night time. But it looks reaaaaally awesome!!

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » December 7th, 2009, 11:49 pm

some more shots i just took from the night:

fowljesse · Post by **fowljesse** » December 7th, 2009, 11:57 pm

That looks good. Good job!

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » December 8th, 2009, 12:01 am

If anyone wants a scanned image of the Mazda emblem (the Mazda badge on the back) I can send it to them. It's what I used when I modified the brake light.

davejon · Post by **davejon** » December 8th, 2009, 4:37 am

Nice work!The 'Mazda' looks good in cool brake light.

pox · Post by **pox** » December 8th, 2009, 10:16 am

Did you do this on the front or the back of the glass?

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » December 8th, 2009, 10:46 am

pox wrote:Did you do this on the front or the back of the glass?

you mean the plastic? And I did it on the "front".. the part that touches the hatch.

Daninski · Post by **Daninski** » December 8th, 2009, 10:57 am

How about one saying KLZE

_-Night-Shade-_ · Post by **_-Night-Shade-_** » December 8th, 2009, 1:57 pm

Good job!

You said you painted it? Did you paint the actual 3rd brake light or the glass?

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » December 8th, 2009, 2:03 pm

_-Night-Shade-_ wrote:Good job! You said you painted it? Did you paint the actual 3rd brake light or the glass?

I painted the 3rd brake light. Used adhesion promoter with a stencil I made with the Mazda badge on the back, and then very lightly coated it with black paint.

I did all of the on the front side of the light assembly.

_-Night-Shade-_ · Post by **_-Night-Shade-_** » December 8th, 2009, 2:07 pm

It looks like there is still some light showing through a little bit, but at least the 'mazda' is clearly visible.

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » December 8th, 2009, 2:14 pm

_-Night-Shade-_ wrote:It looks like there is still some light showing through a little bit, but at least the 'mazda' is clearly visible.

Yeah there is a good bit visible (and It's mainly due to me being overly careful.. I didn't want to coat it too much with paint to where it was ugly)... but if you look at it in the daytime, it actually doesn't look that bad.. it's very visible in the day, and really it almost looks likes the tail light is smoked

edit:

I have to fix it by the "Z" and "D" though.. you can see a section on both those parts where the light isn't going through and that's because i screwed up there with the stencil... so I'll just get a tiny bit of paint thinner and clean that bit up..

Mnemonic · Post by **Mnemonic** » December 8th, 2009, 4:04 pm

nice cheap easy mod that I always thought was needed. this could be achieved for about 5 dollars

Post by **Mooneggs** » December 8th, 2009, 4:50 pm

this is awesome...

so you used the oem mazda badge from the mx-3? I guess I didn't think it was that big to make a stencil like that...

I wonder if you could scan in the stencil and we could cut it out?

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » December 8th, 2009, 5:00 pm

Here you all go!

MX-3.com

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