Tintied Tail Lights

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NathanJax

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Well, yesterday I tackled the tinting of my tail lights. I've been putting it off for a month now. I've had everything at the house, but to busy (or lazy) to do it...

I used:

2000 Grit Wet Sand Paper
Gravity Feed Paint Gun
High Speed Buffer
Polish
Wax
Clear Coat
Black Paint

- First I took off the lights and wet sanded them, keeping the sand paper wet. After about 1 full minute, I stopped and checked the lights. When a white haze/fog appears, your done.

- Dried off really well

- Mixed 75% clear with 25% black paint and sprayed 2 coats, waiting about 20 minutes between each coat

- Let sit overnight (about 16 hours)

- Wet sanded using the same method as above

- Dried off really well

- Used the buffer and polish to smooth out any ruff paint

- Applied 2 coats of wax to the lights with the buffer

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics...



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WoW!!! What a Difference!!! Looks great!!!! My brother (BlacLac) just bought OEM look LED tails and he definately needs to get this done on his truck!!! Nice Work and let the improper equipment tickets begin!!! :emotions122:
 

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lol god i love tinted tail lights to bad the ******* cops give me a hard time about them, don't mean to burst your bubble but i had to buy some new led tail lights cause i got tired of there shit.. But looks really good !!!
 
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Nice Work and let the improper equipment tickets begin!!! :emotions122:

don't mean to burst your bubble but i had to buy some new led tail lights cause i got tired of there shit..

I had them done on my old Infiniti G35 and never had 1 problem with the cops here in Jax.
 
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Looks great! How well do they light up at night?

I'll find out tonight. They aren't as dark as they look in pictures. You can still see the red tint of the plastic in the sunlight. I'll take some pics tonight and put them up in the original post
 

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I had them done on my old Infiniti G35 and never had 1 problem with the cops here in Jax.

it's funny you say that, cause I've had mines tinted ever since i bought my truck in 06 rolling nearly for about 3 years and never had a problem till 3 months ago. Fix it ticket was about 120 bucks i got two of those so add that up damn i should of gotten my led lights long time ago, LOL
 

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