Crystalite – Car Lamp Coloring
tech April 21st, 2007My car was used for product promotion this afternoon. My cousin was launching Crystalite for the first time in Sabah. Crystalite is a type of coloring for glass using nano technology. Crystalite provides or creates a layer of color on the surface of your car lamp or any glass surface. But today, most of the car lamps are made of acrylic… some kind of plastic glass (?).
But you can’t put Crystalite color layer on it directly. We have to put a very thin layer of artificial glass… or just simply call it primer layer. And you can’t put Crystalite color on any plastic type lamp, for example your brake light or any lights at the rear of your car because most of the reverse, signal or brake lights covers are made of plastic. The ‘nano’ will eat-up the plastic!!!
I wanted the ‘purple’ color… just like the SPORTY sample picture on the banner but it’s not available yet. I choose the ‘light blue’ for my Avanza… just like the COOL sample picture on the banner. But unfortunately, light blue is too light… it’s not very visible unless you really look at it. I should have chosen the dark blue! You can see that in the pictures I’ve taken. The cost for each car is $98.00 (in RM)… but I got it free since my car is a demo car 🙂
Crystlite is not ‘tinting’ your lamp surface… its not like tinting your windscreen where the lights are cut-off. Crystalite somehow makes the light ‘brighter’, and not cutting the amount of lights produced by the lamp. So, you are not breaking any law… especially JPJ! But according to Crystalite, only the ‘dark green’ did not pass the JPJ standard requirement… but surprisingly that is the color people wants to install!!! The more illegal it gets, the more attention it gets :O
3 of the demo cars… my car is the third car.
Some of the crowd.
My car getting its coloring 🙂
This is how car lamp looks like before being treated with Crystalite.
Treated with Gold Crystalite… but looks like red.
One of my cousin with the Crystalite stuffs…
See the different? My car is on the right side with the light blue… almost not visible. The other car is with the dark blue.
Mr. Kato from Japan, the head of R&D of Crystlite doing one of the car.