Yellow headlight Vinyl

[Grayfox]

Has anyone found any dark yellow vinyl that will give me that selective yellow JDM look like the ones below?.
I once got some from a UK seller who no longer sells and would like to get some more.

All the ones that i can see on ebay are a light yellow.

 

[homeforsummer]

How about buying the light yellow and giving it a few extra layers to build a deeper colour?

Also, yellow was a French thing long before it became a me-too aspect of JDM styling...

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I always thought the yellow was "because race car"

 

[Grayfox]

How about buying the light yellow and giving it a few extra layers to build a deeper colour?

They don't make any after market lights for my car.

 

[Joey D]

I did the foglights on my Focus and it worked pretty well. I used Lamin-x brand film and it gave it a pretty nice yellow color, I also put yellow bulbs in the housing too which seemed to help really get the yellow color I was going for.

 

[homeforsummer]

They don't make any after market lights for my car.

...but you're buying the vinyl, right? I thought the whole point of this thread was that you were asking about selective yellow vinyl that you would then wrap around existing lights?

 

[Grayfox]

...but you're buying the vinyl, right? I thought the whole point of this thread was that you were asking about selective yellow vinyl that you would then wrap around existing lights?

Sorry, misread.

Thought you said get some yellow lights then add the light yellow film.

I folded the light yellow film and it doesnt look all that good.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Sorry, misread.

Thought you said get some yellow lights then add the light yellow film.

I folded the light yellow film and it doesnt look all that good.

See if you can find the paint on eBay or somewhere. Iirc it died out in France about 15 years ago, the yellow lamps were a post-war thing that didn't make it through the EU. We used to paint our lamps and cross-dip the bulbs to travel, used the same aged tin of paint for many years. If I knew where it was I'd post it to you

 

[Grayfox]

I was thinking of glass paint, it is just if you screw up, it is permanent

 

[Zenith]

The yellow lights are to diffentiate between GT class and Prototype class cars in endurance racing. At night a driver needs to be able to distinguish between the faster protos and the slower GT's in his mirror.

I really don't get why you want to do this on a road car.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I really don't get why you want to do this on a road car.

Because race car.

 

[Joey D]

I really don't get why you want to do this on a road car.

I found that yellow fog lights at least help out with visibility in rainy or snowy weather, especially around the back roads where it's hard enough to see under normal conditions. Normal driving though they probably wouldn't do anything, but you should be using your foglights under normal driving conditions anyways.

 

[Grayfox]

I really don't get why you want to do this on a road car.

Because yellow cuts through for better than white.

 

[Danoff]

Because yellow cuts through for better than white.

Citation needed.

 

[Grayfox]

Citation needed.

SELECTIVE YELLOW
The intent of selective yellow is to improve vision by removing short, blue to violet wavelengths from the projected light. These wavelengths are difficult for the human visual system to process properly, and they cause perceived dazzle and glare effects in rain, fog and snow.
Removing the blue-violet portion of a lamp's output to obtain selective yellow light can entail filter losses of around 15%, though the effect of this reduction is mitigated or countervailed by the increased visual acuity available with yellow rather than white light in bad weather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_yellow

 

[Danoff]

SELECTIVE YELLOW
The intent of selective yellow is to improve vision by removing short, blue to violet wavelengths from the projected light. These wavelengths are difficult for the human visual system to process properly, and they cause perceived dazzle and glare effects in rain, fog and snow.
Removing the blue-violet portion of a lamp's output to obtain selective yellow light can entail filter losses of around 15%, though the effect of this reduction is mitigated or countervailed by the increased visual acuity available with yellow rather than white light in bad weather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_yellow

I see, so it has improved qualities for the human eye in rain, fog, and snow, and degraded qualities in all other conditions (otherwise known as 90% of the time you drive).