Detango rear lights?

[Mikebmth]

Hi all,

Know on my old Astra I had Gsi rear lenses but now bought my Cav Gls and wanna know can I detango (take out orange bits) out of my standard Gls rear lights or do I need to source some Gsi rears?

[Envoy CDX]

People have done it before with a soldering iron, however I've never done it myself.

[Mikebmth]

Know on my Astra ones I just broke Orange insets with screwdriver carefully and then put in Silvertec bulbs that flash orange..

Anyone done a Cav????

[HAIRIBO]

I did it to a set of Cav turbo lights. It takes time but its worth it.

I used screw driver and niddle nose plyers.

[Mikebmth]

Cheers guys,

May have to go find cheap standard set and try to detango them that way if I f**k them up then I still have my stock ones on the car!!

[Gaz]

gls are sort of tinted orange lenses, turbo ones have the insert to "de tango"

You cant detango a gls set.

[Mikebmth]

Cheers Gaz!! May have to tint them if thats legal?

[piercedrab]

i was wanting to do the same as you mate and the easiest way was to put a layer of transparent vinyl film on teh indicator and revers light bit the light still comes through and is still very clearly visable the stuffs £4 inc postage on ebay

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to this




easy to aply just use a hair dryer and sharp knife perfect also done my headlights as a light brow and indicators have it aswell

[Mikebmth]

Cheers matey, worth considering...

Just done a quote on spares 24/7 to see if they can find me some Gsi rears...Hopefully one scrappie will have some!!

[HAIRIBO]

Can you find the ebay link to that mate? As I'll use it to turn the dark/tinted orange lights I've got into turbo replicas.(For the BTCC rep)

The face lift cavs had 4 different lights on the rear.

Early face lift had bright orange. Turbos had grey. Late Models have dark orange. and some SRis had a tinted orange.

[piercedrab]

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/vinyldepot-retail/

thats teh ebay store i got it from they dont have it on teh site the now but you could message them and ask its transparent grey colour but looks smoked once on

[HAIRIBO]

cheers mate!

[piercedrab]

np the stuffs realy easy just dampen the area your gona aply it to then aply and use teh hair dryer to form the vinyl its surprising how flexible the stuff is

[HAIRIBO]

I used it on my head lights years ago and on the side reapters of the avensis. Just didnt know if you could do areas that were open ended like that cav rears.

[Steve H]

do your headlights show through the film ok at night? i shaded mine and couldnt see the road at all when it was dark.

[blackv6]

i done the film thing only lasts so long though i got a set of glx rears as they are tinted
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look in my link
cheers scott

[Hayward691]

I opted for almost complete tinted rear clusters....
and spryed the reflectors on the boot panel...




Did try to fit an all black panel... But i hade the saloon one and not the hatch :'(
So i didnt fit in the slightest and had to get rid

[Steve H]

you know you wanna sell me your angel eyes! lol

[jimmy]

gls are sort of tinted orange lenses, turbo ones have the insert to "de tango"

You cant detango a gls set.

Can you do same on the GSi tail lights? Or is the orange in the lense itself?

[gsi pie]

gsi lights have a orange filter in them and yes it can taken out as ive done it