My 2006 Yaris (Carpento)

[sh0rtlife]

so the trick is to add a layer of thin white transperant plastic in there..it will "dim" them but not tint them...and it gets around any laws regarding "paint and tint" as it can be considered part of the lamp assembly

i useualy use something similar to ultra thin lexan that comes in a matte finish..but you can use lexan and sand it with 200grit..it will difuse the light and take the "edge" off of them being crazy bright..sign companys have empolyed this trick for decades

you just have to figure out how to open up the assembly to get it between the led's and the lense

[Carpento]

Originally Posted by sh0rtlife

so the trick is to add a layer of thin white transperant plastic in there..it will "dim" them but not tint them...and it gets around any laws regarding "paint and tint" as it can be considered part of the lamp assembly

i useualy use something similar to ultra thin lexan that comes in a matte finish..but you can use lexan and sand it with 200grit..it will difuse the light and take the "edge" off of them being crazy bright..sign companys have empolyed this trick for decades

you just have to figure out how to open up the assembly to get it between the led's and the lense

Could have had been an option but I am totally not sure how these units are glued together in the factory. Getting them open might break them and even if I managed to get them open undamaged it would have been questionable if I were able to glue them back together so that it would hold and be water tight as well.

So in the end I went for painting the lights with special paint for this purpose (Motip Backlight Spray) and put on quite a few coats. When the lights are off the units look almost completely black but with the lights on at night the result is not too bad. It still is a bit brighter than the original single bulb but it does not look so much overdone.


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