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shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:21 AM
Hi
i have a shaved trunk...and i dont have any reverse light on my car...so i would like to know if it exist OUTTER TAILLIGHT (like apc,toyoto cavalier,etc) that have 2 socket to put light into the outter taillight?
thanks!
sry for my badf english!

Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:27 AM
pretty much anyone with shaved inners goes without reverse lights...i do the same. some have came up with a way to still have reverse lights. just by looking, no one would even know, but durring inspection is when you would have an issue





Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:30 AM
Who needs them. Im always moving forward in life!
Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:32 AM
i got a @!#$ inspection last year...i needed to buy a new trunk...
so that why i want them this year ..lol
Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:32 AM
Uncivilized R.T. wrote:Who needs them. Im always moving forward in life!


wow, great quote/timing!!





Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:33 AM
your best bet would probably be to grab a set of the revers lights from a sunfire and either put them in the lid, or the back bumper like on the fires





Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:35 AM
that's what i think....but toyota cavalier outter light dont have 2 socket ?
Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:37 AM
not positive bout the yota's....im sure someone can answer that, but regardless....you'd still be shooting light into a red reflector, making it red.

unless you wanna try opening the tails up to take out a reflector, but ithats an expensive set of tails to be modifying by chance.





Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:06 PM
mold a set of fire reverse lights where the inners used to be i think it would look bitchin. ok so my 1 min shop looks like crap but it would look better than that

03 Sunfire - Sold.
Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:28 PM
just swap out the shaved trunk lid with one with tail lights for inspection and then swap it back ?


Thanks
Shaun
www.ShowStopperTuning.com

Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:30 PM
^^ not a fan. purpose of a shaved lid is to get rid of it not to change the look of it the lights.


when i had a shaved lid i never ran reverse lights. i had a stock lid that i swapped on for inspections




Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:10 PM
you can put some little like fog lights the rectangle ones at the bottom of the bumper they will kinda be smooth looking idk though just an idea



Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:34 AM
a local guy here had a nice idea, had a set of small sidemarkers with clear bulbs, then mounted them on the bottom of the outers, ran the wiring through the light itself so it was clean, looked good and still had reverse lights



Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:17 AM
what some do is just wire up white LED's in the license plate screws ...gives off enough light to see where ya go(unless ur windows are tinted)



Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:09 AM
if ya have a body kit n it has a notch in it id say run sum retangualr led's behind the mesh where the cut out is on the body kit n u got urself a hidden but legal rev light set up



Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:32 AM
there are some cavi tail lights that have to two sockets in the outer light. i had them on my 97 but i grabbed them from a junker and wasn't really sure what year they were.



Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:23 PM
i dont use 'em


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Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:10 PM
the cavy's that had the outr lights with 2 sockets was the 95's and SOME 96's. my 96 came with them and others didnt. its just one of those GM things.





Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:54 PM
Just put your stock trunk on during inspection and after inspection swap back to your shaved one.



Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:20 PM
2k Toyos have a clear outer lens and 2 sockets on the outer housings.



Quote:

the cavy's that had the outr lights with 2 sockets was the 95's and SOME 96's


03+ has them as well. I have a set of dual sockets in my toolbox from my Cav

Another alternative is to get a 2000-02 Fire sedan bumper (with the reverse lights in the bumper).

Crystal (crazycavgirl) put an LED strip in the license plate box... if I can find a pic, I'll post it up.










Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:51 AM
Paul Tjepkes wrote:Just put your stock trunk on during inspection and after inspection swap back to your shaved one.






Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:07 PM
If you have a spoiler with a brake light, just make a clear lens for it and use that as your reverse light.



Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:12 PM
best bet is def. the toyotas (00+ style as pictured)




Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:21 PM
MOLD! Custom! Everyone is "JDM"
Re: shaved trunk...Where did you put you reverse light?
Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:43 PM
okay so if someone have outter tail light with 2 socket
email me...
clear APC tail light (the set that come only with outter light)have 2 socket?
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