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I recently secured a set of 95 Mystique tail lamps, so that i could go custom.


A while back, i was told that there was no clear lense in our tails.

...Just for the record, i was right, there is a clear lense underneath the red lense....at least for the mystiques....i believe on all years as well, since i can see them on my 98 as well.

Well, anyway, here is the progress so far.







I gotta say i'm a little disappointed...i was going for a clean classy look, but ultimately it seems to come dangerously close to "rice."

I think that i'm gonna paint the red parts body-color, then use LED lamps to light them up; hopefully that will look better......i gotta salvage this project as best as i can since i already dished out the money...

As always, comments/suggestions are welcome; good, bad, whatever....

I don't like it

100% clear tails never look good...as for new ideas? beats me.

Same.

If ur gonna go clear, go with a carbon fiber back ground.

Don't try this on a 98+ Contour tail light. I can assure you there is NO clear lens under the red part. At least for the Contour.

I like 'em.

Doesn't look that bad to me.

I think it looks nice on a white car only. Clean up the rest of the red lens and I think it will look great!!!

Get two of those 4" round truck LED's and try to find some smaller 3" round Orange LED's then mount them inside, with the smaller orange on slightly behind and to the outside of the red one. Then wire the red one to the third brake light, and parking lights. Wire the orange one to the front turn signals....

At least that's what I'd do, in a flash I would......