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View Poll Results: Favorite Tail Lights and Why?
Tom's 120 35.09%
Valenti 101 29.53%
Buddy Club 23 6.73%
Spyder 5 1.46%
Spec-D 15 4.39%
Winjet 1 0.29%
Oem 49 14.33%
Other 28 8.19%
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Old 04-04-2016, 10:23 AM   #85
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I recently bought a pair of smoked Valentis from someone here on the site,and I'm very happy with them. Valentis are my favorite,and if I didn't get those,I would've went with Tom's.

I really can't stand OEM or Buddy Club lights.
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Old 04-06-2016, 03:11 AM   #86
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These look like perfection on a black car. Reason being that the Black Chrome when passed through the smoked housing actually looks more Bronze/Black Chrome than just Black Chrome. It's hard to capture in a photograph. The coloring looks OEM+. Also the shape of the plastic housing (with that dimple in the circular center area) looks OEM+ (not aftermarket) as modern tail lights generally have a more sculpted shape these days, then just flat housings.

Finally drivers behind me tend to respect my signaling for lane changes A LOT more than before. They don't seem to speed up to keep me from merging. I can only credit the sequential turn signals for this. They seem to get people's attention in a positive way.

I've put a lot of mods on my car (including other tail lights), and I can say that these are a $500 upgrade that looks every bit the part. High end and sexy.
You think you can take a picture of the Revo tail lights with the lights off? I'm kind of iffy on making my car look too all black and was thinking of getting it in red, but I really want to see what it looks like during the day with the lights off. It definitely looks KILLER at night though.
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Have them. Love them.
Nice...What is the name bumper/bodykit for that red 86?
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Old 06-01-2020, 07:19 AM   #89
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Hi, what is the bumper/bodykit name? Is it custom? Where can i get it, that’s really nice
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Old 06-01-2020, 07:24 AM   #90
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I vote stock all the way. There's something inherently cool about it to me that none of the others capture
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2017+ OEM taillights.

Unmatched quality; never have to worry about fitment, leaking, condensation, LEDs going out, incompatibility with the car, etc.

Also, what most don’t notice until in person is that the 2017+ Kouki taillights are indented and shaped very nicely, as opposed to majority of others (including 2013-2016 OEM) having a flat boring lens.

There’s a reason they cost the most new, with the highest end/most expensive 86 builds running them.
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Due having pre-restyle i have no first hand experience with kouki taillights .. but imho oem quality is owerestimated. At least my prerestyle OE taillights had condensation in 2years of owning car. I doubt that there is no way for issues to ever pop-up with kouki ones. Maybe less then with cheap aftermarket lights with poor QC, but no issues ever?
Looks wise i still prefer valenti style ones .. drawbacks being mostly their commonality (same thing that plagues RPF1) and worse QC, with issues being not that uncommon thing, even for new ones. Well, but relative to their cost of 1/4 of OE, it's not THAT bad.
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oem quality is owerestimated. At least my prerestyle OE taillights had condensation in 2years of owning car.
That's not the lights but the way they are mounted and fitted. Getting a good seal should sort that out.
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Kodename47: but wouldn't suggested fixes, eg. better gasket, then also work with aftermarket ones, and thus later shouldn't be that much faulted for condensation?
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About the only taillights that by my taste look better then valentis, would be these from STI 2016 concept, sold by Unobtainium Inc.
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About the only taillights that by my taste look better then valentis, would be these from STI 2016 concept, sold by Unobtainium Inc.
Any link? Unobtainuim Inc. seems to be vintage Porsche related...
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