Custom Mod Tail Lights (Pics)

Just got these back from the paint shop today, they turned out flawless.

Here's the details:

Main housing: Matte black

Three reflector/LED bowls: Gloss black

Side and center reflectors: Gloss black

Trim around lens (outer): Matte black

Resealed with Morimoto retro-butyl, added black aluminum LED bulbs for back-up.

Final assembly before lens


Lens installed you can see the Matte black trim around the outer edge, hides the seam gives a clean look




Installed

 

I'll add some pics of the tail lights lit up tomorrow, Spyder claims the LED's are Phillips super bright and crisp.

 

Very nice, clean look. Nice job!!

 

Nice clean job.

 

Contemplating having the white LED tubes "smoked" give the lights more stealth look, thoughts?

 

Nice job dude!

 

As I was looking at the pics I was saying to myself, "he should smoke those white tubes". So yeah I'd say smoke them out. Curious as to some pics with them lit up. Especially the reverse lights. You have auxiliary lights in the bumper so I guess it's not a huge deal for you, but reflector-less backup lights don't sound like they will work well. They sure do look good though.

 

Painting the reflectors is definitely going to lower the output, I installed the brightest backup bulbs I could find to offset the paint As you mentioned with the bumper backup lights it wasn’t a big concern. I did paint the bowls a high gloss not sure how much that helps.

I was on the fence on smoking the DRL tubes, I figured it was a nice match to my headlights, since I frosted the LED DRL’s they have a white look to them.





Maybe I’ll sell this set of tail lights and mod another set, it pains me to think about re-opening them since they turned out IMO perfect and a sealed really well.

 

Ooooooooo those headlights look cool. Any pics of them all together? I haven't seen to many retro'd of the new style

 

Oh wow beautiful truck

 

Thanks Dan. I added the TRD Pro Rigid fog lights since those pics above, great light output

 

Wow. I really like the grill color choice. Nicely done sir

 

If those taillight tubes weren't so bright, that'd be the exact look I'm going for

 

Is there a write up for your headlights? Everything looks very clean

 

Where are the night pictures

 

These Spyder tail lights, look like neon-tubes when lit up at night. The red is the perfect color, the clear lens gives a super crisp look.

 

https://www.tundras.com/threads/2018-led-headlights-customized-pics.35045/

 

Love them ! I am gonna order a set tonight ! We have the same color truck , what do you think about the smoked version though ?

 

The smoked version loooks good, they are the standard Spyder tail light though not the “retrofit friendly” version. You could however, smoke the lens on the retrofit version after you’ve customized the inside.

 

Hi, I got these and installed them tonight. They look amazing but the signal lights and the reverse lights dont work any suggestions?

 

Welcome from NY.

 

You might have already tried this, flip the signal connector, it’s polerirty specific. If you are using an LED reverse bulb flip it around as well. If that doesn’t work, you might have blown fuse for the tail lights.

 

@TundraCoast that truck looks very nice. Sliver Sky Metallic looks sick with all the mods you did. Nice work!!!

 

Thanks Chris, I knew the day I picked up my Tundra how it would look, hard parts been getting there.

 

Need some help wiring all this. Where did you connect the yellow turn signal wires? Where did you run the red and black to? Do you have pictures of your wiring set up? Where you ran all the wires under the truck?

 

Are those Spyder? The light set I installed didn’t have any external wiring that wasn’t plug-n play (into the vehicles tail light harness). The internal wires were mostly connected as well.

 

Changed the rear