What can Brookswood Tint put on a 911’s lamps?
STEK light film in four versions: 30% and 50% smoke, yellow, and clear. Each piece is heat-formed to the curve of the lens and trimmed by hand, and a pair of lamps takes about two to three hours. The work is quoted per car.
| Film | What it does | Shop’s note |
|---|---|---|
| 50% smoke | A subtle darkening | The shop’s choice for daily drivers and housings with amber signals |
| 30% smoke | A bold, blacked-out look | Pitched at taillights and fog lights, often paired with a chrome delete |
| Yellow | Motorsport yellow light | For the front lamps |
| Clear | Guards the lens without changing the look | Protection only |
The shop publishes a 7-year term on STEK film against yellowing, cracking and peeling. The STEK light film page has the product detail. Every version on this list, clear included, is covered by the inspection caution further down this page.
How are the lamps on the current 911 built?
Differently from earlier 911s, front and rear. In its 2024 press kit, Porsche says it is “integrating all frontal lighting functions into the Matrix LED headlights”, which made the separate front lights unnecessary.
- Matrix LED, standard. The headlights split the high beam into 11 segments that fade in and out, “supported by camera and navigation data”, around the four-point daytime running lights.
- HD-Matrix, optional. Offered on the 911 for the first time, with more than 32,000 pixels per headlamp and an auxiliary high beam that reaches more than 600 metres.
- Rear light strip. A newly designed unit with an integrated LED light arc, a framed line of light that Porsche says “stretches from flank to flank”, with raised PORSCHE lettering.
- GTS. Transparent taillight strips, per Porsche’s exterior chapter.
- Aerokit. A fixed rear wing with an integrated brake light.
For film, two things follow. A strip that spans the whole tail is one long, curved lens rather than a pair of separate lamps, which is part of why each 911 is quoted on its own. And at the front, darkening the headlight darkens everything in it, signals and daytime running lights included.
Does Porsche sell darker 911 lamps from the factory?
Yes, as options. Among the Exclusive Manufaktur items Porsche lists in the configurator for the new 911 are “tinted HD-Matrix LED Main Headlights” and “Exclusive Design Tail Lights”.
Those are lamp assemblies built by Porsche, not film laid over a stock lens. How a particular factory lamp fares at a BC inspection is a question for your dealer; film is judged separately, as material covering the lens. Film is the reversible route, and it carries the inspection risk set out below.
Will a smoked 911 tail light pass a BC inspection?
It can fail. Section 6, item 1.0(a) of the 2025 Vehicle Inspection Manual rejects a lamp whose lens “reduces transmission of light” or is “covered in any manner”, and smoke film does the first by design. Yellow film changes the light’s colour, and even clear film may be questioned as a covering.
The regulation says much the same: s. 4.04(2)(c) of Division 4 bars a required lamp from being “shielded, covered or obscured”. Brake lights are the hardest test, because BC wants them seen from 100 m in normal sunlight. The full picture is in whether smoked taillights are legal in BC, with the front lamps covered in the tinted headlights answer. The shop explains this before fitting smoke, and the film lifts off with heat when the car is due for inspection.
Booking light film for a 911
Send the year and variant, which lamps you want done, and the shade. Say whether the car has the standard or HD-Matrix headlights, an Aerokit wing, or the GTS’s clear tail strip, since each changes what’s being covered.
Ask for a figure through the light film request form or text 604 534 6433. If you’re changing the rest of the car’s look as well, 911 wraps and 911 window tint can be booked alongside.
