My Ricer Taillights

[redneckabbott]

I got tired of my stock taillights so ordered some ebay taillights, coated them with red vht nightshade. During the day, they look stock unless you know what I did. At night, they look pretty obvious to me that they're aftermarket.

 

[Strokersace]

Mucho improvement!!

 

[Super Diesel]

That looks really good! Good thinking!

 

[GCncsuHD]

Big improvement, now pull them back off, clear them, then break out the polish to get them looking great.


I have done a similar approach, with candy apple red translucent paint to get rid of the amber colored signal portion of several tail lights.


Stock on my Mazda parts truck

On the daily beater after red tinting over the signals, and a light smoke.

The ones I did on my old truck, and a Tahoe set I did. This pic is before polishing.

Polished up

 

[little luke]

No matter how much clear coat and polishing I do, I can't ever seem to get the Vht stuff the look good

 

[GCncsuHD]

No matter how much clear coat and polishing I do, I can't ever seem to get the Vht stuff the look good

What materials and methods are you using? Most every rattle can clear is too soft to get a good polished finish from, but you can top coat the VHT with a good 2 part automotive clear. Also the way most VHT lays down it will need to be wet sanded to get it flat enough for the clear to lay down nicely over it. Every one I have put the time into comes out looking like glass, but then again, I've never personally used VHT to do these.

 

[Krause]

What materials and methods are you using? Most every rattle can clear is too soft to get a good polished finish from, but you can top coat the VHT with a good 2 part automotive clear. Also the way most VHT lays down it will need to be wet sanded to get it flat enough for the clear to lay down nicely over it. Every one I have put the time into comes out looking like glass, but then again, I've never personally used VHT to do these.

So what do you use?

 

[GCncsuHD]

So what do you use?

Scuff the lens with 600, tape off the areas I don't want tinted, light mist of Bulldog, coat with the tint, if I'm doing red I have had the best results with Testors Candy Apple Red from a hobby store, if I am smoking I mix just a little black base coat into the clear about 10:1, then the number of coats you do determine how red/dark it will be, let it flash, tack cloth, then remove the masking, a light mist of bulldog to adhere to the parts you had masked, and bury it in a 2k clear.

If you are doing a set of tails with amber color that you want to get rid of (or turn the clear reverse portion red) I like to tape off everything but that section, spray a few coats, then unmask the rest of the red, and do a coat or two over the whole thing to even it out.

In progress.

Finished result, before polishing.

 

[little luke]

May be my choice of clear coat then. I just use the clear out of the auto section at Walmart in the rattle can. And the Vht does lay down rough with my experience, so I wet sand it before the clear.

 

[redneckabbott]

Thanks yall! They just need the buffer on them. I cleared and hand polished.

 

[7.3psd97444]

Looks good!