I'm just curious what you all think of these on Explorers. I enjoy mine!

clear corner lights are cool, clear tails are most definitely (my opinion only, please don't flame me) uncool. makes whatever they are on look like it has been recently rear ended! combine that with that sickly and wholly unsafe pink color they put out, i can't wait for this trend to go away!

a person who gets clears should research it... if yo uhave that pink look its becayuse you haven't paid attention to the industry. Since clears have came out, LEDs have came out that are a soild red, no pink color, and as far as rear ended, that is so far from how I would describe it, when you have a white or black vehicle it looks very good becayuse it supplies either a consensus or a contrast, the stock lenses are some of the ugliest I've seen for the explorer, '95-up of course.. if they were total red it would be fine, but an orange lense is not the kind of thing I like. IMO, there is nothing wrong with clears, corners or tails, infact, I beleive that having clear corners w/o having tails is an imcomplete set and looks odd.

heh, just my $1.50 too much to call it 2 cents :)

I don't like them on chopped Honda's, much less on an SUV. To me they're on the same line as those AutoZone, bolt on, exhaust caps that make any car sound like a weed wacker. Performance mods are one thing, but if you just want to get attention, try a tatoo.

I like the look of clear corners up front, but I don't like clear tails. If you don't take the time to do it right, they are just plain unsafe. There was a kid at my high school that had clear tails on his Integra with white bulbs in them. I don't know if they started as red and faded or what, but you couldn't see them at all during the day. He had several near-misses and was rear-ended at least twice before he put in LEDs.

i agree with spectre. i want clear corner but i cant find them. agh...anyone have any for sale at a resonable price? email me.

I do not disagree with most of your opinions.. for the most part, clears are harder to see, but if you can't tell when someone is breaking in front of you with 30 very bright LEDs and like a 20" luminion stripe across the top.. you're not looking close enough, I don't get people that complain about clear tails but never say a single word about the 4000000000 trucks and old beaters on the road with no taillights, or one and that one is broken so its a dim white bulb, or people in cars like the buick century where the entire back lights up and the only notification you get from them that they are braking is the fact that they are getting closer to you, it seems to me we need to stop the people who have NO breaklights before we worry about people who are simply tired of the horriblly politcally correct tailllight the explorer has been cursed with. what can we do? we can't get euro clears, they don't make them for my model year, GTS taillight covers don't help, and blackouts are illegal as well..

sorry guys.. but there is nothing wrong with clears unless you do not do them properly..

yeah darkfox1. i think anything done in moderation is great. too much and your screwed too little and your wanting more. i personally however dont like the looks of clears on the back but love them on the front. this is my opinon. however on some of the other guys trucks it looks fine. just not for me. i like the way studdedx truck looks but wouldnt put clear rears on my beast

i am not sure where i posted this but www.pacificie.com and www.autosyndicate.com are out of clears. i found them at www.lightlens.com they are more expensive (like 105 bucks total) but i dont care i want them so bad and they are cheaper than a ticket and the right side ford parts that i would need to get to replace mine

it's all about opinion, darkfox. some of us don't like them and some of us do. that's what this board is all about. remember that this is a poll, and some aren't going to particularly like them. once again, my .02.

i like my clear tails alot. they werent so cool without the leds i have now, the leds giveit a custom look. i was actually asked by an older gentleman today ata store about them, he liked them and wanted to find some for his buickk he said, he said the thing he liked was the custom look and the way the leds just light up a little red dot in the lens. thats my $.02

Well, where is the indifferent catagory for those of us who want to vote, but are indifferent?
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Ooh! 3 posts away from 1000!!!

I understand that... and I know where you're coming from heh, but I just get kinda worked up over this kinda thing.. I dunno, I get ta feelin like people are attackin my taste or something sorry guys..

bigcheck what kind of leds you have? I have some jamstraits.. they look like a bright red dot in the center of the lense, you can't really tell its an led IMO

no apologies necessary...and i am not attacking anyones tastes, i just don't care for them an wouldn't put them on my truck. different strokes...

i like clear corners but not the clear tail lights but the one thing that i really would never even consider is the altezzas i hate those

I presonally really like the clears. I already have a set of clear corners and have a set of clear tails on order from www.pacificie.com . Can't wait to get them on.

Clears ROCK! Need I say more? I just wished that they made Altezza's for ALL Explorers.

i just don't like the euro look of altezzas especially on a lifted truck one more thing on a white vehicle clears don't look that bad i kinda like that look

"I don't like them on chopped Honda's, much less on an SUV. To me they're on the same line as those AutoZone, bolt on, exhaust caps that make any car sound like a weed wacker."

We just had an autozone built in town...I'm gonna go get one:)
The clears look good on darker colors to me but overall it depends on what is already done to the truck if they will look good.

whats that? a fart-tip? I see those on a lot of rangers around here but I've never seen one on an explorer heh

Yeah, we have a honda club around here that call themselves "extreme limits" They sound like 30 pissed off lawn mowers. They are always starting sh** with us 4x4s so we all went out and bought those cheap tips and put those on when we go cruisin in town. They seriously hate that!! hehhehheh

Ugly... :) Sorry but if you do it do it right. Get some sheet metal and get rid of the stock rears altogether and get some real LED round lights like the ones used on big rigs and stick those in. That would look classy. The clears look cheap and cheesy imho.

Studdedx - tell those little honda guys they better watch out or this might happen to their little acura's.

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ugly? so you're just gonna sit there and call my ride ugly? who has time to buy sheet metal and go in and ruin their vehicle by sanding it and painting and going through the problems of getting paint to match just to cram some tiny rig LEDs in there when all you gotta do for these lights is remove the old one and pop the new one in..

I like my truck the way it is with the clears on there and I don't appreciate you calling it ugly rpenner

Oh yea.....nothing is as classy and non cheesy looking as sheet metal.....wowie! Oh yea lets go put the stuff big rigs use on our compact suvs (according to fords commercial)....get out of here man...I respect your opinion about how YOU feel towards clears, you may think they are ugly and if you do, good for you, I got clears and you'll never drive my x so I could care less what you think, but when you went ahead and said "DO IT RIGHT" by getting sheet metal? That is just lame, if thats the right way then why haven't you done it? CLEARS CLEARS CLEARS

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Explorereddie,
I'm gonna hafta print that out and warn them not to ###### with us any more unless they would like a free trip to the body shop. LOL
those are some bad a** pics man!!

gentlemen, gentlemen...let's all calm down. this is only an opinion poll. this is one of the few times on this website where i've seen people get all p.o.'ed over nothing. if you like them, fine, get them. if you don't, don't. this isn't something important enough to get this upset. relax. it isn't that big a deal. although i would be even less apt to do this sheetmetal thing than i would be to going with clear tails. sounds a little cheesy to me. there's my .02 again. deal with it however you will.

most of those cars you could ride up no prob with their ground effects so low to the ground, they are just like ramps!

i think what rpenner was talking about was shaving the whole light off and doing some custom L.E.D's now that would look way better than some clear tail's

he was talking about shaving the taillights and getting rig style LEDs.. you know.. the little round lights on the back of the fedex truck? that thing.. its not really what it looks like.. else you could do some really cool stuff with your taillights, its the removability factor.. if you put on clears.. 2 screws.. there it is.. but.. if you shave.. you gotta shave the metal, you gotta build it up and make the new lenses servicable, it requires a ton of fabrication work and you would wind up having to take a sander to the back corners of your truck to blend the lines and thats just not worth it to me. for a vehicle that you don't plan to make a show car for the rest of its life.. clears all the way

I think that if anything the clears look better on stock and street rigs and they dont look quite as good on offroad rigs. i have nothing against them but for my $200 i'd do some more performance mods or accessory mods before i'd go with brake light mods. i think the stock ones are perfectly fine and never get me in any trouble with the law

I think the clears look pretty darn cool. And for us later year owners we do only have a few options. No altezza's or any of the other "new" looks for us. We are left with blackouts, slotted covers, and clears. The clear tails are no longer even being made. I found one site that offered them for over a hundred bucks! That's crazy! I tried to find some of the new carbon fiber blackouts but those are discontinued for our models as well!

I found some people on this site that are selling theirs from 60-80 bucks. I am still unsure if I want to go with the clears for the fact that you need to buy LED's and then I hear about the red dots during the day thing. I might just go with some blackouts and buy some PIAA stop bulbs that will be brighter which should do the trick.

I like the look of the clear tails but don't know if I want to get into the hastle of it all....plus risking tickets and the hassle of trying to get out of them. Or if someone rearends me and sues me saying the lights didnt meet law requirements then I am really screwed.
But then again blackouts are illegal.......(sigh)

I just don't know....................

nigtmare isn't it? these are the same problems I ran into for the most part when I bought my clears.. I worked on the idea for over a year, looking around, planning, doing concepts on corel, I REALLY wanted that look but there was just so much to it..

what we need to do is get together with someone with lexan fabrication skillz and come up with something ourselves.. since APC obviously is either not going to do it for us, or take their good sweet time.

I've been thinking about it for a long time.. the altezza look would work, but there needs to be some legal way we can incorporate LEDs into a street legal lense that has some sort of chrome or black texture on it.

Following what I beleive Rpenner said, we could easily take the LED style taillights that you find on the back of fedex trucks and customize these into an altezza-style clear lense and be perfectly legal. al we would need is perhaps an LED or 2 firing sideways to fit some regulations.

essentially, 2 circular cluster LEDs, one for brakes 1 for turns with a red lense over it like the fedex trucks, a totally clear lense surrounding a chromed/carbon fiber base and we have our own euro-clears for any model we choose with the LED quality already integrated.. whattya think? I have no fabrication skillz, but I do like to sit around in my own little world and think I have good ideas heh, ya think this may be one of them?

Excellent idea Darkfox! I am like you though...no fabrication skills. I fear that even if we found someone to do it they would probably want a group buy type of thing to make it worth their while. We both know what group buys are like :frustrate

I was just emailed by Matt saying that the group buy on PIAA stuff was cancelled so after waiting and waiting I am back to square one on my PIAA stuff!

I will brainstorm though and see if I can't come up with something or find someone who will maybe try to make a couple for us at least.

cool, glad ya like the idea, but yea, either a group buy, or the few of us that want it pay much moola.. my parents would think I'm outta my mind but I'd porbablly payt some good money for some nice taillights, I get a lot of complaints from my friends about my clears w/ LEDs, but I try to ignore em cos I never get dirty looks or anything from strangers..

anybody think they could custom do the euro taillights?

YES! OMG, YES! I would gladly take out another loan for euro lights-or projector style like on the F150 Lightning!
My 2 cents is that I like the yellow turn signals-hasn't anybody ever seen a brake tapper w/ red turners and wondered what the hell they were doing? Yellows are just safer and far more visible, IMHO. I guess I could like a clear lens if the interior was the same color as the suv or truck it was on.......

I'm not going to vote - It's all about the overall treatment of the vehicle. Some combinations of exterior appearance bits and paint colors look good with clears or Altezzas. I really prefer normal lights on my rig - but that's me. On the Explorers I do like clear front corners. But I don't like smoked covers on anything really. I'm going to run normal lights anyway though.

Spas - Absolutely! I prefer having yellow/amber turn signals, it's a safety thing to me.
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lol, one more vote in our favor and this poles gonna be even ;) I guess the "not cool" has won tho.. considering APC stopped production of the total clears long ago, and they don't make the new altezzas for half our model years

Look at all the anger on this board about tail lights.

LOL

How old are we all here? I remember when i was 10 and i used to argue that my bike was better than everyone elses. Now i realize that there is more to life than materialistic items.

Its a car or truck and it is yours. Do what you want with it. ITS YOURS. Do any of you know how impossible it is to impress 100% of everyone? Dont live your lives wondering what everyone else thinks. Who gives a shit. If i asked for everyones opinion before i bought something i would be living in an empty house and i wouldnt be driving a car. Shit i probably wouldnt even have a pair of sneakers.

Originally posted by DarkFox1
ugly? so you're just gonna sit there and call my ride ugly? who has time to buy sheet metal and go in and ruin their vehicle by sanding it and painting and going through the problems of getting paint to match just to cram some tiny rig LEDs in there when all you gotta do for these lights is remove the old one and pop the new one in..

I like my truck the way it is with the clears on there and I don't appreciate you calling it ugly rpenner

Sorry I just now re-read this thread.

My opinion is just that, mine. You can't change the way I think sorry. :) I think these clear lights that everyone puts on are ugly and I will not change my mind. Plus they are a pain in the butt to see at night.

As far as my comments on how to do the tail lights I was just trying to think outside the box and not the same ole same ole as far as lights were concerned. Not to many people out there have done what I have sugested, however all kinds have done the blackouts or the clears.

I personaly think the clear tail lights are plain ugly

god this post is old.. c'mon yall they don't even make them anymore, the argument is dead heh, clears, not clears, its all personal taste as we've apparently determined

taillights=bad, clear corners =good?

My 2 cents, clear headlights/corners are great and European looking. Clear tails are ugly and Nippon looking.

damn man, way to bring this back from the grave...

i voted yes btw...

i love my clears. need to paint my bulbs tho : (

speaking of bulbs, (for headlights) does anybody know if there's an LED replacement bulb for the turn signal? I'm thinking about getting some clear corners, but I dont want that ugly orange bulb to stand out through the glass...

I don't really like the look of clear corners 99% of the time. I will admit, there are rare occasions where they look good. But on every other vehicle out there, I don't like them.

However, even worse than clear corners, I hate vehicles that have clears up front, and stock brake lights. I think you either have to do all or none, you can't just do half.

I just had to vote cool.

1. Because I like them

2. They came stock on my x (see sig)

3. Because I like them

4. Because I like them


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Damn you guys know how to draw things out.:D

I've had mine since Nov. 99' and I still like them. I hate getting 3-5 E-mails a day from people wanting them. THERE NOT FOR SALE!!! Plus clears look good for night wheelin............

Well, since Derrick is already dragging it out... :D

Anybody know if there are L.e.d AMBER bulbs for front clear corners?? I drilled holes in my corners and tail lights for strobes, which promptly blew out :rolleyes:. Now I'm thinking clear corners and altezzas. But I don't like the yellow bulb sticking out like a fried egg in the middle of a clear corner..

LED's suck! Not that they are dim but most of the light that you see normally is reflected off the back of the housing. The led's only project straight out so they suck. they look bright when you look at them outside of the housing. Now put then in the lense housing and they look dim and suck. I say stick withsilver bulbs.

One vote for Clear Corners (Cool), only because I don't have one yet and I want one. But then again people complain they turn yellow. So I vote one for Not Cool, I mean, Cool. Ahhh, never mind... :p

someone was asking about a place to get non-expensive clears, i have a 94 and i found the 4 piece clear corner set on ebay for $35. every time one bid for them is over, another appears, so its likely they will be there a long time. hope this was some help if you ever read this.

Front clears.... are awesome ;-)

in australia X's come stock with clear lenses

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I like the look of my front clears! (Thanks to udmsvt for giving me directions for putting them in!)

no problem.

btw, linky no worky.

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Should work now. Just copy and paste the link.

here ya go:

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linky no worky
I blame geocities.

hmm...worked before. must have been cached. oh well, copy and paste works.

oh yeah, i'm elite..i can just attach it for ya!:rolleyes:

Thanks!

Anyone Know where you can get the Diamond type headlights and clear corners for the front of a 94 explorer? you have the clear but I like the diamond pattern better. I am going ot be installing strobes in the corners and headlights and want them the least obstructed as possible unless anyone can tell me differently about strobes in these type of lights compared ot just clear lenses.

i had strobes in mine....they were plenty.

any place that sells APC can get the ones you want but they will be sold seperately, for 89-92 ranger.

as for teh headlights, i dont know for sure. check ebay or do a search here on the board, there was big talk about it earlier in the year.

do u have the strobes in the clear lenses or the diamond? and if so the bottom lenses or the corner next ot the headlight? If your talkign about the one next to the headlight where did u find small enough strobes?

i had them in the clear, bottom lenses. they physically could not have fit in the corner unless i modified teh headlight door.

what type are they?

were, and i dont remember. they were in the truck when i sold it.