4th Brake light

wildolympic

Yes I find the extra white light makes a difference, definitely brighter. (I have a back up camera)

JDotCDot

Thanks RumbleFish and wildoplympic. That's good to know. I noticed that when it's pitch black outside at night the backup camera is useless with the default lights. I'll most likely give this a shot later down the road.

Edit: Just ordered it. Pretty excited to get it installed. Woo hoo!

wildolympic

My problem with the back up camera is that it gets water/mud on it and makes it useless, just need to keep it clean I guess. Jdot you will notice a difference with the lights, but because they are so low to the ground they don't cast a long light but they do help, and I personally like the way they look VS the reflector. If you have any questions just ask.
p.s maybe later today I will try and get a pic of the camera in use any reason to go out and play around with my precious.

JDotCDot

Oh I totally agree! Especially with both of us being based in WA, getting mud and water spots on the camera is a common occurence

Thanks for all the info! And yeah, a pic would definitely be appreciated since it would give me a good idea considering we live in similar environments. (Hopefully you didn't get hit hard with snow today!)

wildolympic

No snow, a lot of rain for about 2 hr's still drove the Z though, hey we live in WA if you don't drive in the rain you don't drive. Here are a couple of pictures one is with my garage door closed and if you look close you can see the bright spot in the middle barley reaches to the green lines which if I remember right is about 7 feet, the brightest area though are the yellow lines that are 3 feet, if you look at the pic from outside the car the light basically fills in the middle, if you'r looking for a huge difference no but if you are like me and back into parking spaces then yes, there is also the benefit of the red brake/driving lights which are quit bright so I have to say that the install is worth it, I spent $78 and 3 hr's of work and I am happy with the results.

JDotCDot

This is really great! Thank you so much for the pictures! The light shipped today. Can't wait to get it and install!

wildolympic

JDot, did you buy the clear one or the smoked? the clear might give off more light but I preferred the smoked.

JDotCDot

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. Either way, more light is better than no light!

Anyway, I got the regular red/clear one. I actually took photos of my car's rear and quickly photoshopped both options onto it and decided that the red/white light matches the pearl white paint of my car better

I do like the smoked one too as well. I think it matches your car better though.

JDotCDot

WHOA. Just finished the install. IT LOOKS AMAZING!!

Way better looking in person. It's so clean and professional. Thanks so much for the recommendation! This was an awesome mod. Definitely satisfied.

chubbs

Very nice mod.

Here in the UK that light has to be a bright red fog lamp. Personally I use it for two purposes:

1. As a fog lamp.

2. As a 'Get off my arse, you dumbfuck small hatchback tailgater' lamp.

It performs both functions very well.

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cubsfan51

Installed the iJDMTOY rear tail/brake/reverse lights in my 2016 roadster this weekend. I opted for the smoked lens version. Just personal preference over the red. There are plenty of other posts on this forum with pics and videos on this install which were very helpful to look at before I started. I also felt no need to duplicate that effort, so I didn’t take my own pics of the process. And please, SOLDER ALL CONNECTIONS! The two minutes of your life it takes to do it right can save you hours of grief later. First things I did were to add a small bead of silicone sealer around the seam where the body of the unit attaches to the lens. This was based solely on other posters mentioning condensation problems. At the same time, I soaked the bolts of the original dummy reflector with Liquid Wrench to get past Loctite overuse from the factory. Let both of these sit for 48 hours. Then, I got started.

I’m not sure if anyone else has put one of these into a Roadster, but there are some minor differences which makes this somewhat unique. The side panels in the trunk are different, but the removal/reinstallation process is the same, so no big deal there. The one challenge I ran into was the fact that since this is a fully enclosed trunk, there is the required glow-in-the-dark manual trunk release handle on the inside rear trunk panel. (Never mind how anyone could possibly get stuffed into that trunk!) This made removing that panel more difficult. There is a plastic mounting plate under the handle that snaps into place over the panel, and there is no way to release those snaps with the panel in place. I managed to muscle the panel off without damaging anything, but there was no way it was going back together the same way. With the panel removed and the handle and release cable removed from the mounting plate, I was able to get a pair of long-nosed pliers under the metal frame piece that the plate is mounted on. I was then able to squeeze the tabs to release the snaps and remove the plate. (I really apologize for not taking pics of this.) I could then reassemble the release cable, handle and mounting plate and snap it back into place after the rear panel was reinstalled. This little snafu added about 1.5 hours to my installation time.

Also, I wish iJDMTOY would run the sheath over the wires farther up the bundle. I was about done with the install before I realized how much loose wire would be dangling without that additional protection. I wasn’t about to undo it all to wrap it higher up at that point.

So with 20/20 hindsight, here’s what I would have done differently: 1) Sheath the wire bundle with heat-shrink tubing or electrical tape to within a few inches of the wire ends. 2) Loosen, but not remove, the rear interior trunk panel. 3) Tap into the right side tail light assembly rather than the left. Since the trunk release handle is on the left side, this would allow more wiggle room to work with a loosened rear panel. There are also better opportunities to secure the wire bundle on the right underside with other parts of the wiring harness on that side.

Here are some post-install pics, although I now realize pics of the release cable/handle/mounting plate would have been more useful.

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	Trunk Release.jpg (114.1 KB, 26 views)