To de-amber or not to de-amaber...that is the question

[RandallNeighbour]

De-ambering is expensive. I'd say do it if you plan to keep the car indefinitely because it takes five years off the look of your car. However, if you're not planning to keep the car for many years as your hobby car, it will not yield much in the way of value upon resale.

My complete de-amber was nearly $1600 with litronics, tail lamps, side markers, and clear bulbs in the side markers and tail lamps. I've yet to do the mod where you take a soldering iron and heat up the amber in the litronics. I just can't take that risk.

[bkiersz]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

De-ambering is expensive. I'd say do it if you plan to keep the car indefinitely because it takes five years off the look of your car. However, if you're not planning to keep the car for many years as your hobby car, it will not yield much in the way of value upon resale.

My complete de-amber was nearly $1600 with litronics, tail lamps, side markers, and clear bulbs in the side markers and tail lamps. I've yet to do the mod where you take a soldering iron and heat up the amber in the litronics. I just can't take that risk.

Where did you get your litronics? Doesn't sound too bad to me. I can't find litronics for less than $2k by themselves, let alone including tails and side markers. I had given up and decided to just get standard clear headlights.

[Perfectlap]

I'd put it at the very bottom of my mod list. least bang for the buck mod so far. Most people won't notice and it doesn't improve performance or the driving experience. I'd do better wheels and tires first, GT3 front bumper and skirting next (whole new car at that point), a throatier exhaust, if your shocks are creeping lower I'd do the PSS9 Bilstein next (not cheap). For the interior painted center console to match the exterior and Tequipment shifter with new floor mats makes the interior look wayyyyy better.

The one mod that got away from me was adding the Carrera gauge cluster and well now that I think about the Euro spec 03 rear bumper as well.

[crios]

[QUOTE=....I've yet to do the mod where you take a soldering iron and heat up the amber in the litronics. I just can't take that risk.[/QUOTE]


Randall, this mod sounds scary, but it is not, I did myself, so EASY!!! The whole Mod cost me less than $40 and took about 15min!!! Looks so so much nicer.

Directons here:
http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=178&hl=Amber

[ddb]

Originally Posted by crios

Randall, this mod sounds scary, but it is not, I did myself, so EASY!!! The whole Mod cost me less than $40 and took about 15min!!! Looks so so much nicer.

I too removed the orange film. Right out of the box new before sticking them on the car. At first I planned on only using several small plier type tools that I purchased just for the project. I had read where others were successful with this method. It didn't work for me so I had to go to the soldering iron route which worked well. Of course that was over 4 years ago and my hands aren't as steady as they were back then.

BTW, I believe I paid $1200 for my new Litronics as part as group buy not long after I bought my car.