DIY: Rear Bumper Side Marker LED Conversion.

[NashvegasCG]

It all started one night when I was sitting on the front porch drinking a Miller High Life. I was staring at the damage my dad had caused to my back bumper and then turned my disgust to those side markers. I tinted them to match my tails, but when the light hits them at night it is ugly and scattered. I decided at that point to do something. I had some Led's sitting around in the house that a buddy of mine left. He was going to do the AUDI LEDs in his headlights. He said I could have the LEDS and here we are.....

The time it took was 30 for the modding, and 1hr for the epoxy to dry.

The tools I used were...

I tried not to cut the OEM marker, but there was no way around it. I couldn't get the Lens off of the housing. With the help of my handy dandy gun lighter, I heater up the surface and cut out a hole approx. the width of the LED strip.



Once the rectangle was cut out, I put the strip in there, and VVVWWAAAALLAAA! I used Epoxy to hold it in place. The hardest part was lining it up straight.


That liquid is silicon i put on top to keep it water proof...LED + Water = BAD NEWS




Nighttime pictures are hard to do well, but I think you get the idea..


I know this isn't the most BAMF mod, but it was a good time, passing time.

 

[NashvegasCG]

29 views... no responses...im starting to feel unaccomplished

 

[nathan007]

hehe

IMO, it's a good idea, but the job you did looks abit ghetto (for my taste), but props for doing it

 

[CG6Lemon]

i like it.

 

[9450erick]

came out super clean. good job lining it up straight lol

 

[NashvegasCG]

hehe

IMO, it's a good idea, but the job you did looks abit ghetto (for my taste), but props for doing it

well i do live in downtown nashville.... which is know for being ghetto...or wait. maybe its rednecks..i can never keep it straight. Do you think the method is ghetto or the outcome?

 

[NashvegasCG]

came out super clean. good job lining it up straight lol

that is what took the longest..

 

[00accord91]

i kin dig it

 

[Cpyro]

I like the idea, maybe ill give it ago. I would have to assume they open like headlights some heat and pull but i dunno. You covered your hole with epoxy what did you do to the OEM hole? just put the bulb socket back on? I like the idea maybe ill try it. Good Job

 

[KnightRyder]

they dont open like headlights, the pieces are fused together so the only way to split the front and back halves is to cut then glue it back together.