Finally going to get rid of the amber tails....

[onaquest]

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Mine look red/smoked/red. Pics to compare:
Sorry for poor quality.

[BADCLOWN]

These are all smoke, not red/smoke/red.


By my definition, R/S/R would be standard reds with only the clear turn signals smoked. To get this effect, I had to get LaminX and smoke the clear turns myself on a subsequent set of tails.


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do you have a picture of this?

[94jedi]

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No worries, but I have to use this:

[az3579]

do you have a picture of this?

They were way too dark for my taste. I ordered them because they were advertised as Red/Smoke/Red. Same brand (Depo).

Compare to my OE BMW Clears:

20140825-007 by botond.pal, on Flickr

As you can see the OE clears have the red part much brighter, just like the OE amber tails.

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Mine look red/smoked/red. Pics to compare:
Sorry for poor quality.

I don't think the lightning in the garage is adequate to properly demonstrate the color differences. I can vaguely see from the first pic that the Depo set has darker reds compared to the OE tails, and in the second pic it looks like the flash made the aftermarket tails a lot brighter than I think they are.

Personally I haven't seen any other set that Depo sells that is Red/Smoke/Red. All I could ever find were actual smoked everything. When I had my set, it was about 3 years ago. I don't think Depo would start offering a R/S/R tail set in that timeframe, but anything's possible. I've never seen actual R/S/R tails made by Depo on anybody's car before, only the all smoked variety.


When I had my Depo LED tails, I had the turn signals smoked manually with LaminX since they didn't offer R/S/R on that either. The way they came was standard R/C/R. This is what they looked like:

[onaquest]

There was no flash in any of the pics. Agreed the lighting is not ideal for a comparison. There was a bit of a mixup when I listed the part number earlier in this thread. The box that mine came in say red smoke red but are for led tails. The person I bought from must have gone to LEDs and used the box for the sale to me. The p/n I listed was referenced from eBay.

I'm going to pull one of the tails to see if there's a p/n on them. I'm not sure what these are. They look like they have a very light smoke on center area and the red looks to be extremely similar to the original red. Here are a few more pics.

Or maybe these are Red/Clear/Red? I havent seen a set in person, but I thought they'd be lighter.


No flash:

[derbo]

They definitely look darker.

[az3579]

They definitely look darker.

This, though they're not as dark as mine were.
Gotta love the consistency of aftermarket.


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[derbo]

This, though they're not as dark as mine were.
Gotta love the consistency of aftermarket.


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It is amazing and DEPO is the better one of the bunch.

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[94jedi]

Done...bought them last week, they were delivered yesterday, pics will be up tomorrow (weather permitting).

[squashman702]

I believe mine are smoked Depo's . . .



All clear corners, smoked side markers, smoked tails: