a little too ricer?

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yes it keeps me up at night thinking that people are not noticing my exhaust and I will be darned I can never seem to find the door handle(sarcasm). the use of lights in the door handles to me is every bit as useless as the lights in the vents. If you need functional lights to show you thdoor handles I would recomend not driving drunk. Lights in the handles imo would loooks like ass and that yer taking your design cues off of luxery vehicles now. Maybe take out the bucket seats and the consol and put that big-ole bench seat from a lincoln in there too?

Its nothing more then a design cue to highlight the design elements on the car already that do tend to blend into a dark car at night. I would consider strobes rice and not my lights because I have seen TONS of ricers with strobes in the corners but I have never seen any car foreign or domestic that has done the leds like this. Now I am not saying that I am the first and original person to think or do it, just sayin spent some time at shows and seen alot of underbody leds, under hood leds, hell a car at our show last night had red/blue strobes in his chargers grill which I know is illegal but I have not ever really seen anyone do just a few here/there.

To me ricer screams out at you(like strobes do) and like I would consider the horse in the grill that everyone seems to like the lights in the grills you really only see at certain angles again because I do not have the leds shining straight out.

Hope nobody is mad, not trying to do that.
 

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Pointless aspects? While they are not functional in their original use I think the design accents they add are an important part of the sn95 style. I think the car would look wierd with out the brake vents and have always like the ones in the hood as well and think it just looks like its missing something with out them.

But the more I look at them the more I like em and already started to design a mount for the leds in the exhaust opening to help direct heat away from them. I would call it rice if I was like every other import out there with a seven color under-body led kit but adding 3 leds to the vents imo just highlights them.

Yes pointless aspects. Why do you need people to seem them at night? What is this highlighting? I get you have have side exhaust and our cars would look funny without vents, I'm not arguing that. Think about what you're doing. These lights are drawing attention to hey look at my hood vents, hey look at my side scoops. Most ppl don't give an Eff about side scoops or hood scoops. They know they're there because there are millions of other mustangs on the road with the same ones.
 
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I think most people, and even alot of them on here think that they are completely fake like on the new edge cars, hell good part of the new edge people do not even know that they do go through on the early years. Your right that most people don't give a damn about them but it was interesting how many people checked them out on my car last night at the show. Hell I have pointed out the side exhaust to people that have been looking at the car for 10 mins and didn't notice it again a dark car at night all the details are lost. I like to add design elements/highlights in areas that most people do not notice just to draw them in to take a little closer look. You guys are acting like these lights are 100000 lumen lights that are blinding people and shining deer as I drive down the road and its just not the case. There are 2 leds in the hood vent, 3 in the horse and 3 in the brake vents and again I have a variable resistor that allows me to adjust them from off-too bright and it is purely just for show. Just because I have not seen anyone else do it. I know its not racecar but thats not the point here plain and simple....
 

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Who doesn't like design cues from high end cars? HIDs, LED lighting, suede, etc all stuff I love on my car that came from more expensive cars.
 

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but do they give ya more horse paaarr, lmao. how much weight do the bulbs add...hahahaha! dude they look cool! i like 'em and i bet anyone that seen them at night in person would dig it too.
 
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