2004 2008 Mazda RX 8 RX8 LED Smoked Tail Lights Rear Lights JDM Type RH LH | eBay

Have you guys seen this? I understand that if you purchase S2 taillights, modifications are required to fit S1. But the description on this sounds like it's custom made for S1...

Anyone have any clue?

 

Yeah there's a guy doing group buys up here in Canada (GTA)area and says direct bolt in.

 

Yeah they are around, they look like **** IMO.

 

9k have you seen these in person? I'm looking at the non smoke version and they look very close to oem s2. Is there something I don't see in the pictures?

 

I have seen a video, let me find it.

 

I can't find the other video but in this one you can see the LED's burnt out, this video was posted on a RX-8 FB group. FF to 1:22. I will try and find the other one, the LEDS just look cheap IMO and obviously the quality is not great.

 

Its close..but it doesn't look right. They do look cheap in the video.

 

Could always do a custom job to your SI. I did that (I actually want to redo it because I, personally, did it wrong). But, they look good imo if done right.

 

Actually it is OEM series 2 light on series 1 this is the link on this car in video:

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Hmm...if that video is a oem I guess we can't judge. Anybody actually have first hand experience or a close up side by side comparison? 9k any luck finding the other video?

 

Here is images of the ones we did as a group buy in Toronto, Canada. First hand experience fit and quality. See for yourself. Judge for yourself.

 

Some of the things we saw;

1) Disconnect your battery before you install

2) You have to tighten the tail-lights to mold the gasket provide, if you don't you will see the gap at the edge of the tail-light like the last picture and condensation.

3) You're DSC and Airbag light MIGHT come on due to the LED setup, when I say MIGHT, I mean we have seen the lights come on in one car and not in another car. Not sure if it is the way people have installed them. There is a thread on the forum about it. But like I said, we saw first hand, one member had the lights on and one didn't.

Your judgement and at the end of the day you're call.

 

Not sure if it's the picture angle but the first photo the gap at the edge is nice and tight compared to the last pictures. Is that what your referring to? Thanks for posting up close pictures.

 

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. I want to show the difference of camera angle, so you could see it as you would in person.

Again. We did not get this tail-light from eBay, but from a Japanese vendor with the shipping address from Japan. Not sure if the eBay ones are made by the same manufacturer. Our lights are made in Taiwan and Distributed in Japan. I was told they've gone thru the Japanese QC process.

 

They just look cheap IMO, they remind me of the aftermarket Alteeza tail lights back in the 90's. But the most important part is the quality of the LED's, how they look illuminated at night, do they last, etc. These are the same design as the one in the video and it has burnt out LED's. I assume that the manufacturer is the same since they look exactly the same. I was not able to find the other video Gregs, It had a weird title, I hate when people don't use tags.

 

again with the tail lights.......waste of money imo ......also that video was so lame. ugh! fail

 

Some of the guys here in AUS picked up these lights recently. I haven't had the chance to see them in person though. They don't look too bad in pictures, but there was no way I was going to pick these over the real deal.

 

 

 

Personally, I like the S1 tails over the S2's. They just look like they are meant to be there and not retrofitted to be cool.

 

Have to agreed that the ones on the Dodge Avenger look like 'dog'

 

 

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Those are hideous.

They remind me of these days.

 

they look far better than the actual S2 tail lights on an S1. At least they fit.

With that said, I'll pass.