HOW TO: Tinting tail lights, The right way (PICS)

Nah its from the outside bud.

 

can you just spray more coats of clear?
How many clear coats did you do?

 

Yea the best thing to do is start over.

Did you wet sand the clear with 2000? There shouldnt be deep scratches after the compound and plastx.

And remember when wet sanding the clear coat. MORE STROKES, LESS PRESSURE.

 

Oh man I just got some 2010 OEM LED's off of a TW member and ordered all the stuff I needed for this project off of ebay. Now I am scared that I will mess this mod up!!!!

 

How much did you spend?

 

cudos on the write up and the job

 

With the lights and all the stuff to get it done? It was all probably around $260.

I see. Thanks for the info!! I just hope I get it right the first time!!!

 

Well then you spent $60 on materials. A shop will do it for that much and no labor for you =]

 

I did mine about 2 years ago. they were fading and chipping so I sanded mine down back to stock and polished them up, they look better than the day I bought it but now Im wanting to redo them with nightshades the RIGHT way this time

 

No, I spent around $40 on materials but I got doubles of everything just in case. I still have my stock 06' tails that are in perfect condition and I was thinking that I was going to tint those first to get a test run until I get it right and then sell them on TW. Then once I got the procedure down, I will tint my 2010's. Not only that, I want to do the mod myself for the satisfaction of saying, "I did them myself!" I dunno, sounded like a good plan to me cause my stock 06's are just sitting in a box in one of my spare bedrooms.

 

Just finished up this mod. All together I'm in it for ~$35 and 3 hours of time. I ended up only doing 2 coats...but apparently I am a bit heavy handed with the nightshade portion and it ended up almost blacking them out completely. I was a little worried as I was going through the second round of sanding that I was going to not like them once I got them on the truck...but I gotta say a really dark tint (not blacked out totally) with the timberland mica is pretty sexy imo. I will post pics later, so I can show some day/night shots. Thanks again for the write up.

Brandon

edit: Can anyone guess what I forgot to do?

 

Just finished this mod about 30 minutes ago and they look really good IMO!! I took some pictures but I got cloud coverage where I live so they looked WAY darker then they really are!! But this method on this write-up works really good!!!

 

Glad to see that you guys are trying it out there, even more glad that it turned out good for you guys.

 

Well....got done tinting my 2010 OEM tails last night and I really like them!! Note: The Nite Sahde stuff is "not" meant to give you a slight tint look. I hit it with 1 super light coat and it still cured out kinda medium. I mean they still look great but just remember, they will cure about 2 times darker from what they looked like when you first sprayed them. The lights actually look darker then what they really are in person in these pictures. But you guys get the idea!!!

 

Thanks for the write up

 

Looks good man

 

The third light?