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Need to make part of my turn signal glow white (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by DominicHillsun to c/cars

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So on the integra the front turn signal is made oit of two bulbs, I need the one circled in red to be white to pass inspection in my country. The problem is the bulb itself is white, but there is an orange filter inside and I cannot remove it.

My idea was to put in a bright blue bulb in there to compensate for the orange filter and make it appear white. Is that doable? Has anyone tried?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a similar problem. I have an 85 bluebird. One of the corner light lenses fell off. The only replacement light I can find is orange whereas mine was two tone, mostly clear.

Can't find one anywhere, so for the moment I'm using a translucent piece of PLA which I melted to shape in hot water, but it's not exactly an ideal solution.

In your case it looks like the front is clear and it's only the reflector at the back which is orange. In which case, finding a silver paint and with the aid of a syringe, carefully adding it through the bulb hole and tilting the body until the orange is covered by silver.. Would that work?