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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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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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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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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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