Painted My Tail Lights

Well I Painted My Tail lights With Testors Candy Red And They Turned Out Awesome, But I Did Have A Couple Of Problems!!! First Off The Paint Scratches, And Scuffs Very Easily. Second Problem Is There Is Some FISHEYE On The Tails!! I Havent Clear Coated It Yet Would That Fix The Problem Of Scratches??? And About The FISHEYE Should I Just Wet Sand The Tails Down A Little Bit, And Do A Lit Coat???? What Type Of Sand Paper Should I Use????

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clear coating should fix the scratching problem, as far as "fisheye" what do you mean? Call me stupid but I have never heard that term before

FISHEYE= Round Circles Where The Paint Didnt Stick!!!! Should I Go With TESTORS Clear Coat, Or A Different Brand????

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I'd reccomend using the testors clear only b/c I used some krylon clear and the can spit all over the place, pissed me of too. gL

what u should probably do is go to wal-mart or an auto store and get the finest (i think its like 700-900 grit...not 2 sure though) sand-paper u can get...and color sand it..wet the sand paper and lightly sand the taillight.if you have enough paint on the taillight it will take all of the imperfections outta the paint (fisheyes,runs, etc..)then after that go ahead and clear coat it.

good luck with your job.

budd

you can get 2000 grit and eve 3000 grit sandpaper at wallmart or any autoparts store...

k but the question now is.. at night is there gunna be light through ur taillights? lol.... plz let us know, cuz i wouldnt mind tryin this mod.

sure the light goes through!!!!!! The Paint Is Transparent!!!! DOT LEGAL I Dont Think So!!! Luckily I Live In IOWA, If I Lived In Cali, or A Big City I Wouldnt Even Think Of Painting My Lights!!!

Originally posted by sackerius
k but the question now is.. at night is there gunna be light through ur taillights? lol.... plz let us know, cuz i wouldnt mind tryin this mod.

Yea U can see right thru it just like a normal tail, if U use the "transparent" paint.

I live in Cali and I see painted tails all the time. Cops dont care long as the shit lights up red. They are more likely to pull you over for altezzas or clears.

yeah i was thinking about doing this, getting a set of clears and painting them all red to give them a more unified look then red/orange/white

I am just gonna paint my stocks all red. I dunno what I want to do with the center piece though, I am thinking of getting one off an 88 sedan (before they were reflectors, they used to be strips of black plastic) and then get some paint same color as my car and spray that shit blue, and it will look tight.

any pics

Truth Is If YOur Going TO Buy Clears, and Paint the whole taillight red your wasting your money, just paint the stock tails, trust me its very unified, the only reason im gonna buy clear tails is to paint half red, and leave the other half clear (2g civic look) !!!!

but painting the orange red? woudl you have to tsomehow get the orange off?

once the paint goes on you cant tell where the orange is because the paint make is look all one color!!!!!

Also If You Buy Clears And Paint Them Red, They Look PINK. I Sure Dont Want The Pink Look!!! If YOu Paint The Stocks, They Look Blood Red!!!!!

actually I have seen some clears that were painted decently. I gotta start remembering to take my digital camera to school with me so I can snap some pix of these mad dope cars!

yea i was gonna ask you what school do you go too, damn there are a lot of imports!!!!!!! I'm The Only One Here In IOWA That has A Descent 4g Hatchback!!! Maybe The Fad Has not caught on yet!!!!

Melt goes to Heald college in Concord Cali. :)

I go to Heald College over in Concord. I knew I was forgetting something when I was taking pics today. Oh well, I will be sure to get some pics of the clears painted red next time.

I was entranced by the pictures in the thread I posted earlier as well as this accord.

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the higher the number the finer grit the "sand paper" is

I took my ugly red center piece to my buddy that does custom vinyl graffix.(graphics) I had him cover it in red then over-layed a design w/ black. Just a small red "H" symbol in the middle. The vinyl is great it can be removed/changed w/ now problems. I'll see how it holds up over the winter, shouldn't have any problems. Now I just need to do something about the tail lights maybe S2000 but that would too much work for me & I don't want to pay some one to work on MY car. I got a trick for the altezza's, haven't actually applied my idea yet. I think it would have good results. Anyone recommend place to get them for 91 Si hatch.

NO APC bullshit

Anyone recommend place to get them for 91 Si hatch

Try ebay