The Evolution of Underglow
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2023
- Automotive underglow has come a long way from the days of neon tubes and miles of wiring. LEDs have been the savior of modern underglow and one of the reasons that I believe it has still stuck around. What old school tuner trend should we talk about next?
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One of few trends from the early 00’s that I actually liked.
We were rolling with neons under our lowrider in the mid nineties.
@@stoneman8110 did underglow originate from that lowrider/ truck scene from the 90s?
The neon looks better than the cheap leds
Wrong
True, man. You can't re-create that iconic StreetGlow look without neon tubes
It's mote uniform than the common leds
There are many leds that are uniform in lighting, but they're so expensive ricers tend to buy walmart leds and they look HORRIBLE!
@@NathanialParkeryes you can. I can definitively say that you can. Neon is also heavier and less energy efficient not to mention you are sticking a rare and hard to source gas in a clear tube underneath a car. Where it's just going to leak out. LEDs vary wildly in terms of quality and more expensive ones can do any color, UV lighting, Accurate color temperature, software control, RGB. No contest when you compare the technologies.
@@NathanialParkeryou could just snake leds through a tube and it gives the exact same visual effect as neon. And you are less color limited.
I was in my 20s when underglow was popular I thought it looked cool then I'm glad to see it's back in full force
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I'm 22 and I bought my neon kit at 20, I grew up seeing it in full force, now I'm living the dream with them
@@tripclipgt6573 Hell yea!!
I love the look of the purple neon and the glow it gives off. You just can’t replicate that with the LEDs.
Yeah. LEDs are much cheaper and easier, as well as less hassle but you can’t beat the neons.
Neon tubes make such a better, richer, light
I like the concept of turning lights off. My old 240sx/s13 us, I put two switches in the dash that I wired inline with the rear lights (when you turn the lights on) and bake lights(when you hit the brakes. So I could switch the brake lights off so racers following me couldn't see my brake points and cops can't tell your about to brake for the turn. And then I could turn off the rear lights off completely to dissappear but still see with headlights.
gonna get rear ended in a race lol
@@Cheezusmaybe if his cars black
@@CheezusI'm remembering the streets I used to use it on and for people chasing, If their brakes were better than mine, then they would not hit me. But if their breaks were not as good as mine I could break harder and later and they wouldn't know that the turn was coming up and they would just go off the turn.
I'm screenshotting this because it's genius and I want to do it. Been wanting to for a while but never had anyone explain it thank you
Or you could have just notched up the handbrake 1 notch. That also turns the lights off😂
The glow from the neon looks softer and better imo
real neon def does look better, but DAMN 500 bucks for a kit is pretty steep
I remember when my dad got under glow way back in the 90s.
As someone who's building a car themed around 2000s tuning this is awesome news
Put underglow on my Scion Tc back in 2020 and still rocking with it til this day 😎
One up lighting is the best underglow hands down. I got 2 kits from them
nothing beats those old Gold Series neons. The glow is soft and stretches farther than any LED kits out there. It sad when superior old tech gets replaced and ignored just because it's old.
Hell yeah love the tuner era then the modern
Forgot under glow existed.... Going to go and order some old school under glow like i used to have on my skyline to re live the memories 🤣🤣
OPT7 is a really good company for quality LED kits. Running them on all my cars.
I’ll always love underglow!! I’m 45 and have it under my 93 Civic EJ1!
My car was like a spaceship in the early 2000s, was weird as fuck when I got a different car and didn’t put lights in
Miss those tubes
Great topic 😉👌🏼
Street glow will forever remain the best form of underglow forever, those leds look like the same shit kids put in thier room lol
underrated
Hmmm the old school tubes are tempting
Neon look with the benefit ofs led would be perfect
I used to have a spot under my sideskirts and bumpers where I cut a small section and put Pepsi glass so the light can go through without damaging the neon.
I loved my green street glow tube I bought them in 08 and put them on myself i didn't break a tube until 11 and it was the one on the front thanks to a raccoon
I had it under my Mazda MX-3 V6
there is a car audio store where i live. i was searching throught the used section and tucked way in the corner was orange neon underglow.
I remember I saw a party van with under glow once and well I was a kid and I remember it like yesterday there was a white neon under glow light the exact ones found lighting up buildings
Glad I stayed to the end
Mine still work from back then...😮
StreetGlow branding brings back some good time memories. Not fan of it, but trends always go in cycle
I actually like the “neon glow” that og neons had. Looked better in photos “polaroids” and had a better look to them over all. Obviously though they weren’t the best long term.
I got underglows on my dodge charger. I got lights all over this thing. Almost looks like something from tron
I'm 30, underglow was never out of style, in my life time. There's haters, but why should a few haters control what we all do.
For that price, I definitely would not run tubes again! I had a set of white tubes in the early 2000s and I loved them but these new led strips are so much easier to work with and the color options are great. You only had one color in the tubes and thats it.
Going with LED your losing the glow from neon. The ambient light from neon bounces off surfaces much more and that stretches the distance they can be seen. Not to mention, neon is a constant flow of light, unlike LED... which looks like a bunch of mini focused spotlights under the car. But for a eighth of the price, unlimited colors and patterns LED is the obvious practical answer.
Idk I kinda like the old neon better, it wasn't so bright it didn't take away from the rest of the car
I personally prefer the old Neon look over the LED simply due to seeing all the hot spots on LED lights.
I hadn't looked at underglow since the 90s. My 8 year old asked me about it last weekend so we googled it. It is amazing and so much more affordable. Kiddo says our Cressida needs underglow
My blue under glows were awesome
Underglow is King
Kinda wanna do a quality LED setup, where it reacts with brake lights and turn signals. Lights up red on the back half when braking, and pulses between white and amber when using the turn signals. Might sound kinda lame, but i dig the idea.
Neons hit different
There definitely seemed to a lull in tuner culture in the 2010s. I was in HS and college in the 2000s and am glad to see quirky stuff like this coming back.
We're in the 2020s dude. Stance and camber was the norm back in the 2010s
@@headshotmaster138 I’m old enough to remember what it was like in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 2010s were not as extreme. Crackdowns on street racing, tuner fads evolving, young people caring less about cars than the generations before them, etc.
@@Collin275 How different was the car culture back then compared to now? Because I see young people in car culture but I can chalk it up to just social media.
the only con(for me) for using LED is that you can sometimes see each led lights reflecting on the ground
only with the cheap crappy ones, a good led kit has a nice full glow to it
Idk what it is but the neon has a brightness that I haven’t seen LED’s match. Like the LED’s make the ground look colored while the neon really lights it and other things around it up.
Big lots neon with bass reflex
Running underglow on my 2020 Civic hatchback. LED kits are the way to go.
complex wiring? on a couple of lightbulbs😂
I still have a neon undergrowth kit that I never installed, still in the box. But LEDs are the new new. No high output alternators for my lighting needed.
interior glow>>
Ever since the tuner car scene in the movie cars I wanted underglow and I was like 8.
i remember when cold ray cathode lights were also popular in computers at around the same time
The year was 2003, my Hyundai Scoupe had green Underglows and life was good lol
Underglow has always been cool asf to me. I feel like the people who hate on it are same ones that eat chicken with only salt.
Ew people like that exist? Lmao i dont hate underglow, but i have a grudge with rock lights
It’s just tacky. Sometimes it looks cool but it just doesn’t look great on a clapped 1998 Honda civic with rusting door panels and stickers all over it - which is like 80% of the people who own under glow. It’s just tacky is all, I don’t hate it, I would much rather see someone spend that money on some useful parts. That’s just how I am I guess.
People like what they like, people can dislike stuff you like and not be dicks. I know its crazy but having different opinions doesnt make you a dick. Personally I prefer it without but who cares just keep ruining the resell value of all the cars you buy with tacky add ons
@@joetroy2904yeah most of the people running underglow are people with Chevy cruzes with plast dipped hubcap wheels or those shitty elantras. Even clapped out Honda civics are nicer now
Tacky asf ricer
The street glow still give a lifetime warranty if the tubes break
The 2000s kid in me loves that under glow is easy as ever to have now
Neon is cooler and always will be, but it is really cool how far LED tech has come
When i was 17, this was awesome, now, oooof
I need underglow for my car. 💯
“Complex wiring and placement”
Back then underglow was cool cuz it wasn't a commodity. It was a flex of time effort and knowledge, another example of working on your own car. Now its just a dime a dozen and takes 3m tape
Back then.... Like it was 50 years ago 😂😂
In the 80's and earlier they used fog lights mounted under the chassis
All I gotta say is cool dude 😎😎😎👍😁
@akagels
Can u talk about (that hardly anyone) Sylvania zevo led bulbs that has been around for a long time, and are they still the best, worth buying, and quality is their and with its lifetime warranty.
Brake lights, turn signals, reverse lights, marker lights, and interior lights.
I would love to see this quick review from u. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
the neon light actually looks much better than a led its not even in the same league
Underglow was always cool in small amounts
next topic: spinners
spinner rims were awesome and need to make a comeback. I've seen a few cars with em but we 100% need them back
Oh god no, we already have the donks💀
Hell yeah, they look dope on big body German sedans. Toyota Centuries too.
LED underglow has been around for over 15yrs
I got govee leds under car and inside too, 2011 kia soul
Neon looks better BUT LEDS are so damn cool and easy to work with
You can do anything you can think of unlike the neon
Old skool to me is 90s maxpower style cars with no LEDs just charged, tuned and turbos, fast cars and fast women anything else is just adding weight 😁 👍✌️
What do I feel about air ride on older cars
Dang I wanted my next car I’ll do an akatsuki with solid red underglow, but I didn’t know it’s flat out illegal in a good chunk of states and where I am I can only have them in white -_-
There goes that dream
I bought an 09 convertible mini cooper and it came with the old school neon tubs with a remote that didn’t work 😂😂😂 heard one of the tubes hitting the ground while driving one day and just ripped em all off 😂😂😂
I've wanted to underglow my car for as long as I can remember, but my state banned any external lights that aren't factory standard 💔💔
Talk about the 1986 Buick Grand National being faster than the 1929 Ford Model A.
I cant wait to get my first car and do this is
This was my very first modification on my very first car. Felt like I completed life.
Cathode lights too
Yeah still prefer cold cathode it glows it does direct light in one ⬇️⬆️
I wanna get underglow for my forester. I have a 4th gen, it might look goofy but idc it’s my baby
Ford Rocus Razer Edition inbound
I don't think I need an RGB car lol
the evolution was pickup drivers making fun of it then only pickup drivers have it now
NO,NO,NO.
Now back in the day. NOW my brother-in-law. Installed Big, huge halogen lights under his Dodge Ram truck.
(1985) LOL
On a nb Miata yes or no?
I had incandescent lights under my car. If one got wiped out, I’d just pop in another.
Cool, a Chuck E. Cheese on wheels now
Got the DoomBoom system,
You can hear real far...
been using opt7's garbage and a $22 which last forever but needs more waterproofing and going to test temu rock lights next
2 years of using underglow everyday and it seems that its spreading in my area, got one guy to post that it looks ugly....
There isn't a better kit anywhere on the market than LowGlow
Complex wiring? Fucking what lol. It was 4 neon tubes in series to a transformer and a switch.
Idk man because of the price of the neon kit and how vulnerable they are imma just go to Walmart and get some peel and stick leds and call it good.
It's stupid easy to install now. One weekend me and my brother got bored and slapped underglow onto my stock Accord for like 30 bucks
Idk maybe I'm an old school person but I think the neon tubes look WAYYYY better then led. They glowed instead of shining beams of light like led. Especially if the ground is wet all you see is each individual led reflecting off the ground. Neon didn't do that they glowed
Cold cathode
As much as I love neons I don’t think I’d ever use them irl lol
They are pointless and use power. But they give you a cool feeling, knowing the ground under you is illuminated. I can stick my arm out my window and have the bottom of my arm glow red from the lights under the car. You can even go a step further and add interior lighting. Then your whole car would be a colored glow. Idk, it's stupid to say out loud, but the experience is real
Why not? Have fun with your car!
Nobody got shit on my panel gap glow. looks like my civic is gonna burst into flames
Oh dear, look at the RUV (Rainbow Unicorn Vomit)
Subtle underglow is goated.
Right! You said the right word bro, “subtle.”
Low glow ftw!!!!