Smoked em

[-Boosty-]

The other day i was sitting home bored, already installed my o2 sensor in my gauge pillar, and changed my plug wires. I was just staring at my car wondering what i could do with the things i had there.

Then it hit me. Busted into the shop (my room) yanked out my cans of...

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then i yanked out my reverse lights and my corner lights

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And decided it was time to play around a bit. I sanded em down with some 120 grit sandpaper and cleaned em up with some of

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Then i set off to the great outdoors to lay some paint. I held my can about a foot away from the lights, doing the back edges and sides first, then moved onto the front, making sure to just do one nice even coat over all of them. After letting them dry for around ten minutes i went back out and put a layer of the triple thick glaze. I let them dry for around ten to fifteen minutes in between coats, and i put three coats of clear on them all. This was the finished product.

Reverse lights

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Parking lights

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Picture of them on but i had my flash on

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Flash off

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As you can see, they are still plenty bright and i think they blend in a bit better during the day. Over all it took me about an hr total, including sanding and cleaning. Ive used krylon paint a lot in the past and if your painting anything plastic i highly recommend it. I havnt had a chance to test the reverse lights since i was flying solo on this project i had no one to take the pic, ill repost one if i get one tho. Thanks for lookin.

 

[nated420]

Nice dude I like them!! Looks pretty sweet

 

[Bud92gsx]

Put a amber led in ther and they will really look nice when lit.

But no pics of the reverse lights on?


Looks great tho.

 

[-Boosty-]

Put a amber led in ther and they will really look nice when lit.

But no pics of the reverse lights on?


Looks great tho.

read the last sentence

 

[Bud92gsx]

I missed that paragraph entirely.

 

[Jesse2012]

Looks awesome, I might try that

 

[mitsukid07]

Only an hour, nice way to spend an hour.

 

[98mitsgs]

Looks pretty good. The reverse bulbs are pure black , were you able to see them clearly when you backed up?

 

[-Boosty-]

Looks pretty good. The reverse bulbs are pure black , were you able to see them clearly when you backed up?

the side markers looked the same as well but since they use the same bulb im betting ill have no prob seeing anything as long as i have my trunk open hahahaha. Either way, im confident i wont have many issues. Im the kinda guy that will sacrifice a little practicality for something that looks decent. thanks for the comments guys.

On a side note, this was what i had laying around, had i had a semi transparent black i might have used that instead.

 

[007jimmy]

I did mine with the VHT niteshade. I should have taken my time to do the prep work, maybe they would have came out better. Tinted lights look great on dark colored cars. Great job none the less!!

 

[1998dsm]

looks good i had my tail lights painted black mixed with clear (on same color car), but didn't trust myself with that and they look really good, I might try the reverse lights. thanks for the trial without error looks very nice.

 

[alex209]

Looks good

 

[lilsam]

key on engine off and in reverse your lights will go on.

 

[WES_393]

Looks good! Clear coat is the key to making lights appear dark without blocking the light.

 

[jpmxrider489]

Looks very good. And tint looks good on bright cars to. Why didnt you do you tails?

 

[-Boosty-]

Hey thanks guys, i wouldnt mind em being a little less black and a little more smoked, but for free, and an hr i couldnt have asked for more

 

[jpmxrider489]

Looks very good. Nice wright up as well.

If you did your tails, I dont think youll have a probem with it being to dark. Because your corners you can see.

 

[-Boosty-]

Looks very good. And tint looks good on bright cars to. Why didnt you do you tails?

The tails are a little more to replace if i mess em up , i decided if i did actually do something i dont like replacing the reverse n corners would be cheap, ill figure something out with the tails, as i dont really care for the led, def not a fan of the altezza style or euro style whatevers.

 

[WES_393]

Painted center section and smoked tails looks great on Eclipses's. I agree that smoked tails look better on brighter colored cars, but still looks good on any Eclipse.

 

[jpmxrider489]

You ever seen smoked tails on the talon, when its all blacked out with the TALON painted white like I got.

 

[007jimmy]

You ever seen smoked tails on the talon, when its all blacked out with the TALON painted white like I got.

It looks good. You Talon guys don't have much of an option when it comes to tail lights so you gotta get creative.

 

[jpmxrider489]

Ya I know but the panda talons are sick.

 

[-Boosty-]

So i figured out last night, my reverse lights didnt work, so i set out today to figure out why, got em all fixed up, (thread on that in a bit). Here are a few day time pics, ill snag a few more tonight and post them too.

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Heres some night shots, streetlights were pretty bright so it wasnt completely black out.

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