Right then peeps, recently, I have bought myself two high-level 'Prelude' brake lights for my 4th gen only to find double-sided tape stuck to the back of the 'Prelude' lens, which stops the wording from lighting up when you brake. Pretty sure that this is the original tape that was stuck to the lights too.

Is it me or doesn't it kind of defeat the object having a lens which is supposed to light up the word 'Prelude' if Honda (or whoever else it may be) go and stick tape on the back of it to stop any light shining through it?

I had a go at getting the tape off the back of the lens on my first light and found a white area covering the wording, that I am assuming is there to allow the letters to light up:



Unfortunately though, when trying to get the tape off, I ended up scratching away some of this white transparency, which consequently f*cked up the lens



Due to this, I didn't even bother attempting to get the tape off the second lens but JDM-BB4 kindly made me one instead




What I want to know is do/did all the 'Prelude' lenses come with this tape on the back and if so, what's the reason for it?

Cheers,
Darren

Can't really answer the tape question as I just have the brake light added recently (in fact I still need to wire it up! ), but you say JDM-BB4 made you the Prelude cut-out?

If so, how good is that. Wait for reply before I go bug him with PM's...

Thanks Darren

Off I trot to the PM's then. He's a skillful chap indeed!

Cheers,

Rob

No worries mate. Yep, he has a few skills up his sleeve

Can someone clarify something for me please.

There seem to be two types of high level light.
One is a red brake light, and the other has the Prelude text.

Is the one with the Prelude text also a brake light or just an illuminated sign?
They normally illuminate bluey/green. Brake lights, by law have to be red.

The Prelude plate is taped on top of the red reflector. Someone told me a while back that you can't have a spoiler brake light as well as the high-level brake light at the same time. MoT failure, apparently.

So Honda made a simple mod. But it's very dim and only really shows up at night. I haven't found any high-intensity 501-type bulbs that would enhance the effect, so would recommend replacing the Prelude sign with a stencil cut from vinyl.

Best wishes, Colin

As Colin said, though I have been told that you can use as many brake lights (within reason) as long as they all work properly and are all red, so I am running four now (inc. spoiler light).

just ask kawa!
i followed him from japshow last year and everytime he braked it was like blackpool illuminations high level, spoiler, low level, loads of em goin on

and yes theres 2 lights, a high level brake light, and the 1 that i have a high level 'prelude' light that glows green when your turn the sidelights on

i wired it up myself
but i was in my tracklude that i took it out of
so i did have the loom
but... the wires in my UKDM didnt match up to the loom so i just got some extra wire and threaded into the boot and wired it into the rear numberplate light

Yeah, I've heard that you're supposed to have your normal brake lights, one each side and you can have a high level one too, but I never had any trouble with my old van that had 6 brake lights - the 2 normal ones, 2 mid height ones on the doors and 2 high level ones at the top of the doors.

As for the one glowing with the sidelights, this is illegal I believe as I know a few people have wired them up to a separate switch. The rear window heater seems to be a common choice for this.

So i have a bb4 would this have all the wiring in place? or would i need to run wires? i quite want the prelude writing one

frank