AK Benz

Getting the chance to smoke the tailights, any opinions on shade or ideas?
the car is platinum blue with pano roof and black tint...(matches black lights)
thanks in advance

j_belll

mine's platinum blue metallic too!! i thought about smokin the tails, but doubt it will look good. post pics once u get it done, maybe u will change my mind

gotoschoolhere

A friend had a black W211 and he smoked the tail lights...

It just took away from its prestige... Made it look like a

j_belll

lol see. my C240 is smoked on the red part only and the car is black so it looks decent. since the E class has different light shape and body shape, im pretty sure it wont look too good, but we'll see. i wanna see his done

001kz

hey i did smoke mine very lightly i also did it on the bimmer, which is blue. thought it would turn out bad, but it came out to be better than on the merc.
ataching some pictures, i hope it would help some of you on the final decision. i personally like the new style tail lights, but they r too expensive.

gotoschoolhere

Tell you what,

I will admit that it looks better on the E (with light tint) than it does on the 335ci...

But that doesn't say much now does it.

I like it, I'm just not sure I would want to do that to my car...

j_belll

yea but ur car is black, thats an exception. every black car needs to have lightly smoked tails its just a necessity, PERIOD.

any other car color, however, is what makes the final decision a tough one.

Hoop

001kz, if you ever want a second opinion about that plate configuration, let me know because I have one.

001kz

hoop go ahaed...

AK Benz

thanks for the responses guys, im gonna smoke the lights meduim shade since the car color isnt too dark

001kz

how about white cars. i personally think white cars look best with tail lights tinted, well kinda depends on the style of the tail lights itself. white C-class looks very good with tail lights tint. next cat i wanna get in white, just so i can smoke the tail lights, unless i am gonna get a G-wagon.

LB Bnz

the smoke tailights look good on a black car...but the pix you posted--I think you had the lights on during the day so 'smoked' look doesn't really show...IMO. at night w/lights on they look great, during the day w/o lights they look good too....

I smoked the lights on my CLK and will be doing the same on the E350..

Heres a thread that I posted some time ago (it has pix of the tailights and spoiler)

https://mbworld.org/forums/clk-class-w209/190842-good-news-trunk-spoilers.html

001kz

i love ur tail lights. the design of the tail lights it self is much better (in my opinion) on the CLK, it looks super nice. now, the reason mine dont look smoked during the day, is because i did the light color. i was aiming more for a very dark red instead of completely black.

ps. was thinking about taking my rear trunk spoiler off, kind of tired of it. opinion pls. thanks!

LB Bnz

thanks...I already miss my CLK... I have already started to mod the E350...

anyways, about your trunk spoiler, it looks like the Lorinser..? I looked at those but it seemed to me that the spoiler came up too high for my liking. I wanted a subtle look--just to finish off the back...The place that customized the trunk spoiler on the CLK just installed another one for me on the E350...

Your car looks good, too...I think the spoiler looks good on it...

001kz

thanks for the opinion, i guess i am just gonna leave the spoiler alone.

what do u have in mind as far as the mods on the 350?

AK Benz

Alright guys it has been done, got it back a few hours ago and so far lookin great, i really like how it came out, the clear centers were lined perfectly and a scratch on the light has been taken care of as well, pix will follow shortly throughout this week. thanks for all of your opinions and advice :

gotoschoolhere

I would agree with:
1) Getting the tail lights of a BLACK or WHITE w211 medium tinted (perhaps leaving the white part, white).

AK Benz, we are looking forward to you loading up your photos.

Ugh, I hate this... I thought I was done with the customization phase of my life but...

I haven't even taken delivery of my white E350 and I am already thinking about getting black-end e63 wheels and now tail lights.

Perhaps I'll just keep it stock.

001kz

u might be happy with stock car for a while, but u know u wont be able to be satisfied with it for too long. why? because u r thinking about modding it already. there r people who dont like mods and there r people who do, i think u r leaning towards those who do. its just there r way too many e-calsses on the road looking all the same. and it is human nature by default wanting to stand above or at least out of the crowd. therefore, why not treat your EGO. after all we live once, and that once lasts a moment at the most.
in addition, we gonna enjoy another moded w211 on the road

AK Benz

Alright here is the moment everyone was waiting for







Enjoy and hope it helps out others in decision making, I honestly like them much more than the typical stock red or the dark dark...

001kz

nice i like it. it looks like dark red. especially when the car is started.many would said to me that is looks ghetto. oh well, everybody has right for an opinion/

001kz

wait do u have pano roof?

AK Benz

yup and black tinted windows...

j_belll

i wont be doing it to my car for sure now lol. but hey, if u like it i love it!

001kz

i think black pano roof and tinted tail lights are a nice balance