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For these I paid 150$ Canadian, on the F90 I used the lamin-x pre cut sheets, measured and cut myself.
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Wow, nice work. I just googled knifeless tape, I didn't know it existed. What width did you use and did you use a different wider width for the corners? Can you post a close up pic of the tape on the lens?
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Like the other person who posted I was not aware that knife less tape existed but a couple YouTube videos educated me and I can see how that would be essential in doing that project. I think your idea is an excellent way to make the existing headlights on pre-LCI cars look a little more sporty and updated without doing a full-blown LCI retrofit I'm going to look around and see if I can find a local shop that would be willing to do that before I would attempt it myself! I'm curious how that idea would look with vinyl like you did it compared to a tint that has some translucent to it ??
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I would have messed with this if LCI's weren't an option.
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The white 540D is done by a specialist with black vinyl and using knifeless tape which I provided him. it was the first time he ttempted soething like that and he nailed it. The Donnington grey M5 I did myself since I had more time. I used the lamin-x precut sheets. what I did is measured the non lit part of the lights and cut the lamin-x using scissors. knifeless tape is only good for vinyl but not on lamin-x. It takes some patience but totally doable. |
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I've always tinted my tails because I felt that BMW's red on them was too much. I much prefer them tinted, and it adds to the look of the car. Medium tint is the way to go.
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I'm debating if it would look better to just do a light tint across the back of my tail lights or do that vinyl edge thing…
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