Smoked LED head & tail lights Options

[Jokester]

So I'm planning to smoke out all of my lights (heads, tails, side indicators, front turn signals) and I have a couple of questions. And I'm planning on using the tint film instead of the paint cause I'm scared I might effed it up if I use paint. So...

1. Does a smoked headlights look good on a 6g celi? Cause I've seen many with smoked tails, but not with the heads. If anyone has a pic of their celi with smoked heads, it would be great if you could post it.

2. Switch to LED/SMD bulbs?? At first I thought this would be an obvious choice because with the lights being smoked, the bulbs need to be brighter to be seen thru the smoked layer. But after reading several forums, there are many controversies with using LEDs for tail light. I was just wondering what are your guys opinion on this? If I do get LEDs, I will get colored LEDs (red for stop/parking light, yellow for turning, white for reverse). So hopefully that would help with the brightness?

Btw, I'm planning on using these LED bulbs if I do get them.

Or these

[trdproven]

tinted lights dont look as good as if the lens itself were actually smoked, the ones ive seen are hellafail.

between your two leds, the 1st ones are more of directional leds as you noticed its facing forward, so you have to plan what type of leds you need to use to create the correct output of light.

2nd pic looks like a 360 degree led and is SMD, which means you will get better light coverage, a cleaner light than the first one,

you need to look at how the lenses you are putting on, figure out how the bulb sits inside, figure out the bulb temp you want, color, how many leds on each bulb, and LED bulb design (many different types for different purposes). for example, you dont want a bulb that faces forward but the bulb inside the lens sits sideways so you wont really get a good light output from the side of the bulb. if you go to superbrightleds.com it will tell you the temp and degree coverage.

This post has been edited by trdproven: Aug 22, 2012 - 8:11 PM