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Old Aug 21, 2002
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third brake light

has anyone tried cutting out letter out of cardboard n putting it in that gap between the light and glass. like civic or something. jus thought of it. im bored and im going to sleep
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I have been thinking about doing that for awhile now. I know some cars out there you can buy them made for that but I havent seen one for our car yet, it shouldnt be too hard, just get some black vinyl and cut it out then set it in place. I am not sure if I am going to do it still cause you might not be able to see it well because of my tint.
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I actually did this!
I had taken my rear deck off to tighten one of my speakers that was raddeling.
I didn't really spend much time on it (maybe 10 minutes)
What I did was actually take the 3rd brake light apart and I put a printed piece of paper that said "7thGenCivic" or something along those lines.
I didn't actually put it into my car. but I took some pictures. I will try to find them now, and I will post them.

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These are the pictures that I took.
I ended up making the letters a little too big, because they fit perfectly inside the red plastic piece, but I later learned that not all of the red plastic piece is exposed.




let me know if this is what you were thinking of doing
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ya thats what i was thinkin.. wen you braked would it work right. was the 7th gen civic readable..
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Yes I think it would still read.
I never put it in, so I can't say that I'm 100% sure, but I believe that it still would.

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Old Aug 22, 2002
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That is freaking cool man. Clever guy I must say
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