Relocated Third Brake Light to Trunk Scion Logo

[DIM]

Let's see a video of this in action!

[Moshpit37]

By popular demand:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g1p74zIQm0&feature=youtube_gdata_player"]Scion FR-S 3rd brake light relocation mod - YouTube[/ame]
I'll probably be adding some more LEDs soon, right now it's just 2 4" strips of LEDs, I think 2 more would be better.

[Moshpit37]

Originally Posted by GremlinGSP

where did you get the material for the rear deck. I still need to cover mine.

Just some felt from the fabric department at Wal-Mart. Thinking about redoing it in black though, the red really reflects off my tinted window something fierce, it's pretty distracting in the sunlight.

[DNAPoPo]

Looks Great! The Vid definitely brings it to life.

[RainEG]

Maybe it'd look good with a Toyota emblem, but it looks awesome overall just saying. :p

[GremlinGSP]

That's what my brake light solution does at night. I'm planning on tinting my windows soon so I wonder if that would cut down on the glare. It does look good though in red.

[sastexan]

Originally Posted by whaap

Perfect. That's one of the few things I dislike that the designers came up with. You put it where it should have been in the first place. Good job.

I'm pretty sure it is the exact same part as used on the last-gen Lexus GS.
http://www.motorauthority.com/image/...-exterior-view

I really dislike the CHMSL - I like these DIY fixes but not sure what I'm really looking for yet.

[Gunman]

For those of you wondering about legal reqts. for center high mount stop lamps (CHMSL), these are the NHTSA reqts:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/571.108

S5.1.1.27 (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, each passenger car manufactured on or after September 1, 1985, and each multipurpose passenger vehicle, truck, and bus, whose overall width is less than 80 inches, whose GVWR is 10,000 pounds or less, manufactured on or after September 1, 1993, shall be equipped with a high-mounted stop lamp which:
(1) Shall have an effective projected luminous lens area not less than 2903 square mm. (41/2 square inches).
(2) Shall meet the visibility requirements specified in S5.3.2(c).
(3) Shall have the minimum photometric values in the amount and location listed in Figure 10.
(4) Need not meet the requirements of paragraphs 3.1.6 Moisture Test, 3.1.7 Dust Test, and 3.1.8 Corrosion Test of SAE Recommended Practice J186a, Supplemental High-Mounted Stop and Rear Turn Signal Lamps, September 1977, if it is mounted inside the vehicle.
(5) Shall provide access for convenient replacement of the bulb without the use of special tools.

S5.3.1.8 (a) Each high-mounted stop lamp installed in or on a vehicle subject to S5.1.1.27(a) shall be located as follows:
(1) With its center at any place on the vertical centerline of the vehicle, including the glazing, as the vehicle is viewed from the rear.
(2) If the lamp is mounted below the rear window, no portion of the lens shall be lower than 6 inches below the rear window on convertibles, or 3 inches on other passenger cars.
(3) If the lamp is mounted inside the vehicle, means shall be provided to minimize reflections from the light of the lamp upon the rear window glazing that might be visible to the driver when viewed directly, or indirectly in the rearview mirror.
(b) The high-mounted stop lamps installed in or on a vehicle subject to S5.1.1.27(b) shall be located at the same height, with one vertical edge of each lamp on the vertical edge of the body section nearest the vertical centerline.
S5.3.2Except as provided in S5.3.2.1 through S5.3.2.4 and in paragraphs S5.7 and S7, each vehicle must conform to the following requirements:
(a) Each lamp and reflective device must be installed in a location where it complies with all applicable photometric requirements and visibility requirements, with all obstructions (e.g., mirrors, snow plows, wrecker booms, backhoes, and winches) installed on the vehicle.
(b) A manufacturer must certify compliance of each lamp to one of the following visibility requirement options, and it may not thereafter choose a different option for that vehicle:
(1) When a vehicle is equipped with any lamp listed in Figure 19 of this standard, each such lamp must provide not less than 12.5 square centimeters of unobstructed effective projected luminous lens area in any direction throughout the pattern defined by the corner points specified in Figure 19 for each such lamp; or
(2) When a vehicle is equipped with any lamp listed in Figure 20 of this standard, each such lamp must provide a luminous intensity not less than that specified in Figure 20 in any direction throughout the pattern defined by the corner points specified in Figure 20 for each such lamp. The luminous intensity must be measured in accordance with the photometry test requirements of the applicable SAE Standards and Recommended Practices incorporated by reference or subreference in this standard.
(c) A high mounted stop lamp must have a signal visible to the rear through a horizontal angle from 45 degrees to the left to 45 degrees to the right of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.
(d) High mounted stop lamps required to comply with S5.1.1.27(b) must together have a signal to the rear as specified in S5.3.2(c).
(e) Backup lamps must be mounted on the rear so that the optical center of at least one lamp is visible from any eye point elevation from at least 1828 mm (6 ft) to 610 mm (2 ft) above the horizontal plane on which the vehicle is standing; and from any position in the area, rearward of a vertical plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, 914 mm (3 ft) to the rear of the vehicle and extending 914 mm (3 ft) beyond each side of the vehicle.

[Kimsey47]

Originally Posted by BRZranger

I like this version of raising and widening the third brake light better. This car is so low, lowering the third brake light is asking to get rear ended by an SUV or truck.
@GremlinGSP where did you get this light bar? Any videos?

Maybe someone can make the Bentley tail mod for the 86?



Impressed with this mod though... Kudos to OP!

[zohare]

Originally Posted by Kimsey47

Maybe someone can make the Bentley tail mod for the 86?



Impressed with this mod though... Kudos to OP!

Oooh I like that ^^^

I was thinking of the OPs solution on my car already. I feel like on a red car it'd be far less visible, but I I really like the high mount light bar on that bentley. I will probably do something like that... Get one of the gay light bars people put on truck beds and use it when I install Valenti tails (if I get them) Logos on the inside can be lit but I'm not really sure if I want them lit on the outside... Regardless of legality I feel it might make me a target... The interior is where I let out my "inner rice" XD XD jk looks good OP. Like the combination with the fog lamp brake light thingee. Kinda cool to see top and bottom light.