Smoked my Tail Lights

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

Well, they started red and clear... Now theyre black. Looks alot better than the pics show. Just gotta wait a couple hours and clear coat them now. Heres the up to the second layer. I did 3 all together.

I also did my 3rd taillight thats way up top, I just didnt take any pics of it. What do ya think?

Ill have pics when its all said and done and installed.

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[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

i need to do mine.. and my front turn signals...

 

[2002XLT 5,000+ posts]

seth i woudlnt do your fronts, any bugs/rocks/flying sht will chip them off and they will look like sht, if you search google there should be a way to bake them and paint them from the inside, ive seen it done on some explorers, just depends on how your casings are.

i need to redo mine with some clearcoat...they are looking faded.

 

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

I want to get clear front turn signals... Mine are like 1' long and yellow.

Theres a ton of visual mods I wanna do to my van. I wanna get rims, a new grill, replace all the plastic cheap trim, lower it, etc.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

neat

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

Get finished pics Ill be doing this also sometime soon for a buddies car, where'd you buy the coating from?

 

[wu501 10+ year member]

wet sand in between coats and them give them a good polish job when your done...otherwise they wont look glossy.

 

[wu501 10+ year member]

also..I have a brand new can of nightshades I never used if anyone is interested.

 

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

http://www.cacustomcoatings.com/vhtniteshades.html

Thats where I bought mine from.

 

[PSturmer 10+ year member]

need more coats to make it darker

 

[spl guru 10+ year member]

Hmmm, im interested!!

Get thise final pics asap good sir!!

Looks nice!

 

[05F150SuperCrew 10+ year member]

seth i woudlnt do your fronts, any bugs/rocks/flying sht will chip them off and they will look like sht, if you search google there should be a way to bake them and paint them from the inside, ive seen it done on some explorers, just depends on how your casings are.
i need to redo mine with some clearcoat...they are looking faded.

sand them down w/ a very fine grit sp and polish them w/ plastic polish that has some type of uv protectant. that way they wouln't yellow... did it on my lincoln, came out really nice.

 

[galacticmonkey 5,000+ posts]

It has more on it... A whole other coat or two. Theyre really dark.

So should I wait for it to dry, wet sand with a really finy paper then clear? Or should I just clear them? Or even bother with any of that?

 

[SPY 5,000+ posts]

http://www.cacustomcoatings.com/vhtniteshades.html
Thats where I bought mine from.

Cheaper at summit racing

http://store.summitracing.com/egnsearch.asp?Ntt=tint&N=700+115+400335&Ntk=KeywordSearch

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

It has more on it... A whole other coat or two. Theyre really dark.
So should I wait for it to dry, wet sand with a really finy paper then clear? Or should I just clear them? Or even bother with any of that?

Definately clear them, as long as you laid out the coating evenly and theres no runs I dont see a reason to wet sand. Even you change your mind after you clear it you can wet sand the clear a little and polish them up.

Personally I would clean em, spray em, clear em, polish em, done //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif