What happened to this?

Saw this on wikipedia.. IMHO rear lights look hideos

looks like something from Australia?

gold94corolla wrote:

looks like something from Australia?

Yep, that's the RV model which is unique to the Australian Domestic Market (ADM).

If im right these lights are early model? I once went after a set of ADM late model lights with garnish.. finally i converted my euro ones to this :





I cleared out the upper part and made one part of red bottom section. Only dont have a rear foglight anymore..

AE101 wrote:

.. finally i converted my euro ones to this :





I cleared out the upper part and made one part of red bottom section. Only dont have a rear foglight anymore..

same as fx-gt, looks well...........amber piece removed is a nice touch also..

i think those real lights would look well if the amber was clear

miib14 wrote:

Saw this on wikipedia.. IMHO rear lights look hideos

To be precise, these tail lights and rear garnish are stock equipment on all later-model (96-99) Australian AE101R/AE102R Corolla Secas. It wouldn't look that bad if the rear garnish didn't fade into something so horrible. I've seen only two later model Corollas in person with a pristine rear garnish and it looks pretty good, but they should've stuck with the classic FX GT style tail lights and garnish.



I found this Toyota Corolla Seca Advantage in the Wikimedia Commons which is pretty much how the rear looks brand new.




Also, I Photoshopped my Corolla's rear garnish to show would look like brand new vs how it actually looks.




Future plans are to source parts from an earlier model AE101R to get the rear parts that the rest of the world uses. In this case I wouldn't want to resort to buying JDM or EDM parts, however if the price is right.....

Funnily enough the sedans do the opposite - the centre garnish stays fine whilst the indicators fade, like so


The pre-facelift RVs look heaps better (non-RVs had a bare centre section, no garnish at all)