Tacky.  YMMV of course.  Some dealers around here have a cutout silhouette
of their logo that they stick in the light, always annoys me.  Aside from
the tacky factor, I think anything that gives any possible confusion to the
function of the third light is a poor idea.

Of course I'm speaking from rockbound (hidebound?) New England, and I'm an
old stick-in-the-mud anyway -- but I would associate monogrammed brake
lights with air fresheners that look like crowns, neon-lit license plates
and similar stuff -- which should let you gauge my idea of tacky.

:)
david

  At 13:04 4/17/2000, Ron 'Coyote' Lussier wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm going to install a third brake light into my Vanagon, and came across
>these:
>    http://www.ccidomain.com/aed/ll/cledtbl/index.htm
>
>Basically, they're customizeable LED third brake lights.  You can have up to
>4 letters of your choice.
>
>Questions:
>
>1) Is this tacky?
>
>2) If I go with this, what should I pick?  '4x4'?  (I have a syncro.)
>   '1991'?  (The year of my van.)  Something else?
>
>Coyote
>
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David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"