First of all i would like to say that the 2g rear end is a work of art. Personally it is what first attracted me to eclipse's. Anyway lately I have noticed that everyone is bashing Altezza tail lights, and are in favor of the stock ones. I like the stock tail lights, but I really think the altezza tails look great. Yes they are sort of ricey, but I have gotten more compliments on them than anything else I have done to my car. True they are just a trend, but I feel they are going to be around for a while. Anyway feel free to add your two cents to this post. I was just interested to see what others thought.

Yea I love how mine look...specially at night, but Im selling mines so I can go OLD SKOOL with the GTS black outs...me and Eclipsemenace are doing it....he jus put his on his car....I cant wait till I get mines...my car is gonna be all white and black...gettin black cf hood too....ooohhh i cant wait hehe


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I was a fan of altezza lights for a while. I had a pair and loved them with the painted center peice. The reason I took them off is because I did feel like they were ricey. Now I can't stand them. I see them everywhere I go and I hate them more and more everyday.

I've always felt that if your car looks ricey, anything that you do to it will be ricey. I've tried to make my car clean, and to follow a theme with it. My car is white with chrome headlights, chrome taillights, and I just ordered 18" chrome rims for it. I've never been told that any part of my car looks ricey. However, if I put on one of those LED exhaust tips, My car would turn to rice instantly, at least from the back. It's putting stuff like that on that makes cars ricey. Anyone can buy stuff at Walmart or eBay for under $20 and put it on their car (exhaust tips & washer LED's). And anyone that pays attention to fads & such knows that $20 goes a long way with rice. People need to think about what they want to do with their car, and think of the money they want to spend on it. How many times have you seen a Walmart exhaust tip & said, "wow that's really nice!", never.

Altezzas can be ricey or they can be a nice addition. It all depends on the overall look of the car. I've seen stock exterior cars with just altezzas on. That's not ricey in my book. But that's just my 2¢.

i love them on my car! but they dont look good on all cars. personally i think they only look good on light colored cars. white mostly. they blend better with the car.

-johnny

"Few people understand
the psychology of dealing
with a highway traffic cop.
Normal speeders will panic
and immidiately pull over to
the side. This is wrong. It
arouses content in the cop
heart. Make the bastard
chase you, he will follow..."

>i love them on my car! but they dont look good on all cars.
> personally i think they only look good on light colored
>cars. white mostly. they blend better with the car.

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HE Dog is the guy who made me want to get them on my car and paint my center peice white (which I have never gotten around too or will be doing anymore) but yea I saw em on his car and I feel In love with the 2nd Gen altezzas....but yea see them all the time now on everything from Chevy Astros to now Camaros....I hate it when I see an American Legend all riced up brings a tear to my eyes everytime


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I wouldnt want altezzas because everyone has them
astro vans
expeditions
cavaliers
1987 accords
trucks
etc

everyone also has imports too. everyone also has eclipses for that matter. where im at tho, nobody paints interior! (not yet) so im winning!

-johnny

"Few people understand
the psychology of dealing
with a highway traffic cop.
Normal speeders will panic
and immidiately pull over to
the side. This is wrong. It
arouses content in the cop
heart. Make the bastard
chase you, he will follow..."

they probably don't paint the interior b.c they can't figure out how to take off the panels :) or can't find them in stores.. about the altezzas.. i'll have to agree with most of the posts here.. they can look good on some cars, mostly lighter colored cars, white, silver.. i didn't really like them on eclipes, but that white above doesn't look too bad.. i remember i first saw some on a red truck and thought they looked really good...

>everyone also has imports too. everyone also has eclipses
>for that matter. where im at tho, nobody paints interior!
>(not yet) so im winning!

Thats a whole differnt comparison. Everyone has a tounge, but would tounge piercings be so different if everyone had them? grandmas, uncles, parents? Whole different story though.

Yeah but altezzas dont look so special when 1 in 3 vehicles has them on the street. If everyone had chrome hub-caps, would you want them too?

>I wouldnt want altezzas because everyone has them
>astro vans
>expeditions
>cavaliers
>1987 accords
>trucks
>etc

damn dude, everyone is hating on the 3rd generation accord this week. they are tight dude. and unless things have changed within the last 6 months or so they aren't aviable for the 86-89 accords. anyway, i'm just playin cause i used to own one. see they aren't all bad


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>damn dude, everyone is hating on the 3rd generation accord
>this week. they are tight dude. and unless things have
>changed within the last 6 months or so they aren't aviable
>for the 86-89 accords.

Ive seen them on that model. They have large areas of white with about 4 small little red dots. Someone has to make them for an 87 accord if they make them for astro vans.

well, i have altezzas on my car, i got the gen 3's when they first came out. i think they look very good on eclipses, but cant stand them on trucks. seems like after i got mine all these crappy trucks got them and they just look like sh*t. i too have gotten many compliments on my tails, and am the most well known import tuner in my town becaues of them. and ill have to disagree about the color. i have a dark green eclipse and they look nice, they dont clash, but ill agree white and silver do look good.

I think all of them are ugly, nothing like looking at fake crome and crap. The only reason I have mine is cause there different, there not crome, and there are no funky lense shapes, just 3 circuls and no crome, factory matched baby

I saw a Eclipse at Import Showcase that had some TYC tails.. they were sick they looked very classy!! I want some in gun metal with chrom rings around the lens so they match my rimz.

i kind of like those back lights that have the black covering and all that shows are 3 red circles but they get smaller towards the outer parts of the lights.

Well it's nice to see some true opinions. Personally I have the carbon fiber ones and have had them on since June of 2001. That was way before most people had them. I never thought they would get so big, but I'm not pissed off that other cars and trucks are getting them now. Yeah, they do look like shit on cars with walmart crap on them, but those that have them that make them look good, I give them props. At least they are customizing their car or truck.

Let's see, I really have mixed opinions. I like the ones that are on my car right now, but I'm thinking of going to the all red altezzas. I prefer the 3rd gen because of the three round lenses. IMO the ones with the red sides are kinda ugly. Just my opinion. I'm glad to see that every one has different opinions, otherwise all of our cars would look the same. As far as ricey, led washers, that's ricey!

I'm on my second set of altezza's and like them just fine. I like the ones I have now (red corners) better than the original APC ones. I don't know what area you're in as far as being one of the first ones, but I put my original set on back in like June/August of 2000. Some friends and I went to an HIN here in Cali where APC was just beginning the marketing of them. The next week I bought some pre-release ones from some shady character on ebay.

>Well it's nice to see some true opinions. Personally I have
>the carbon fiber ones and have had them on since June of
>2001. That was way before most people had them.

Most people had them during June 2001. I remember seeing them for the first time back in the summer of 2000 on an Accord. It was rare for like 3 months and then spread like wildfire. I remember wanting to get them in October of 2000 (right after i bought my eclipse) because they were starting to get even more popular.

i like them, in fact i wanted lights like this before ever seeing them, so when they came out i had to have them :)
although i'm thinking of another custom setup right now...

I by no means meant I was one of the first people to have altezza's. I meant I had the carbonfiber ones before most people. The carbon fiber ones did not come out the same time as the clear/chrome ones.

>I by no means meant I was one of the first people to have
>altezza's. I meant I had the carbonfiber ones before most
>people. The carbon fiber ones did not come out the same
>time as the clear/chrome ones.

youre right! I didnt think about it but youre right. The CF ones didnt hit the market until about the next year during the spring. That is when my friend got his and everyone thought he was the ish for having CF tailights.

Sometimes it seems that fads start just because something is different. It might not necessarily look the best, but it's so different that everyone wants to have it to be unique. I think that that's how a lot of rice gets cooked. Just my .02 ... btw, I am the newby here so I've got my flame suite on. :D