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It wasn't that difficult, but then again it's a bit of a half-assed job... Here's how I did it and prolly isn't the best way. Wasn't expensive though.

You need a clear panel for this

[*]get the thing off (4 nuts)

[*]remove any silver paint from letters so they are clear

[*]cut the back out in the shape of a letter box (you'll never get it open as it's sealed with goo, grrrrrrrr!)

[*]get some translucent red self adhesive vinyl and stick to inside of panel (mine needed 2 thicknesses to get the colour right) - £free

[*]clean it well and carefully mask letters and black bits (masking the letters took a razor sharp knife and a lot of time)

[*]get (right colour) spray paint and plastic primer - £12

[*]prime, spray to a good thickness

[*]get a neon tube, mine's for a PC case but is a bit short, and fix inside - I used a hot-glue gun near the ends. - £13

[*]test

[*]seal up with whatever you like

[*]tag transformer wires onto tail light circuit

[*]fix it back on

[*]connect up

[*]grin! - £priceless!

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Hardest bits were masking the letters and getting the right colour paint - the QM1 I had mixed was no where near the QM1 the car's sprayed in (apparently there are at least 2 QM1s...).

Cost just over 25 quid ($65 ish). Bargain.

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for r32's this light was a factory option offered by nissan. in the r32 factory optional parts catalogue it was called the "rear finisher" and was sold under the following codes according to body colour.

5NG03~5NG07,5NG09,5NG10

the price at the time was 33,300 yen. i went to tokyo nissan last week to ask for one for my friend. but they ceased production quite a while ago in 1995.

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guys.... i just got pulled up by the coppers. "you arent allowed to have allowed to have any blue lights coming from your car. (its green) the only people allowed to have blue lights are police cars" "it came with the car!" "remove it"

i was lucky to get away with it, because the car was just imported. the fine is $75 and one point.

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what state are you in, im in WA and the new rule here is that there is not allowed to be anything like on the bonet, but you can have any colour underglow you want aslong as the globes themselve are not visable. So the glow is fine. I had blue LED windscreen washers to and they are illegal because they are visable but underneath fine...Weird!!!!!!

Taking pics tonite so ill have them up on sunday for you guys to check out

cya

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G'day Moschops

Can I ask, could you explain the following steps. I'm having a lil trouble trying it

remove any silver paint from letters so they are clear

How'd you remove it? scratch it off?

cut the back out in the shape of a letter box (you'll never get it open as it's sealed with goo, grrrrrrrr!)

How'd you cut it? looks kinda fragile thats all.

get some translucent red self adhesive vinyl and stick to inside of panel (mine needed 2 thicknesses to get the colour right) - £free

Hmmm, any advice on where I can get this from?

clean it well and carefully mask letters and black bits (masking the letters took a razor sharp knife and a lot of time)

May I ask, what black bits are you referring to? I presume you simply used that white marksing tape is that right?

Please advise as I reckon your car looks awesome. Thanks heaps in advance.

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