Sliding down the slippery slope has commenced

[Eagle]

Just did my first mod... well actually I'm only 1/2 done. I ran out of light, and then it started raining so I only got one side done.


I really hated the red rimmed lights compared to the black, so I did what anyone would do, I grabbed the tape, a razor blade and some duplicolor trim paint and made my own.


I'm sure this is common but I felt like sharing anyway!

I'll try to remember to take a comparison pic on the truck before I remove the other lens again.

 

[NJ04HOE]

wow, maybe it's just me but I haven't seen anyone do that before. Looks like OEM 04-06 lights to me great job.

 

[withac]

That does look good. Damn, might have to add that to my to do list.

 

[tast101]

Looks good, haven't seen anyone do it before, outside of the stock ones that come that way. I like Jenna's tail lights the best if I ever had to stay stock.

 

[BlackDenali]

Looks good!! Never seen it done before!!

 

[DallasD]

Hell of a job I will do this to mine if you dont mind me stealing your idea.

 

[vatahoelt]

huh, mine already have the black trim sort of. it's darker than that red.

 

[Eagle]

vata: lucky you man! I wish i had the darker ones OEM.

Hell of a job I will do this to mine if you dont mind me stealing your idea.

nah, I don't mind at all. go for it!
I will give you a couple of tips...
1: don't use masking tape for the outer edge, use electrical tape. No bleed thru and a crisper edge.
And
2: go around the edge with the razor blade before you try to peel the tape off.
Otherwise you'll peel the trim paint off with the tape.


additional pictures as promised, sorry for the poor picture quality. I'll reshoot a final pic tomorrow.

Painted on the right, red on left (sorry about the shadow!)

Both painted and daylight fading.

 

[DallasD]

thanks that looks great

 

[brndns_hoe]

damn...I could have just sent you my old ones...but I don't have them anymore

 

[Effeckt]

Much better! I don't think I've seen anyone that had modified the old red ones either. Mine were so old and faded before I replaced them to consider doing this anyway. Looks great!

 

[Young28]

before the painter painted mine i was going to get a set of oem lights like that from a newer model. Never thought of doing it that way. .

 

[Yuk_Nali_6.0]

Looks good. I think white would have looked good too.

 

[LazyAssLou]

Yea I wonder how white would of looked.

 

[Eagle]

like those slotted taillight covers for OBS

or similar to this...

Not my cup of tea.

PLus I had black trim paint in a spray can already so the mod was free, and didn't have colormatched white paint.

 

[ecordell]

Instead of running the razor blade around the edge before peeling the tape off, you can just peel the tape off before the paint dries. (bodyshop trick).

Anytime we would paint/clear a car, you give the car a little flash time and then start (carefully) peeling the tape back so that you avoid a "hard-line".

 

[Eagle]

that works great on regular paint... just not on trim paint. Trim paint is more rubbery and far thicker. I've tried to treat it like normal paint before and it just doesn't work that way.
thus the suggestion to score it with the razor blade before trying to peel it.

 

[diffrnt]

Dude, that looks really good. And like others have said, this is the first time I've seen it done. Good job.

 

[vatahoelt]

turned out good.

 

[ecordell]

that works great on regular paint... just not on trim paint. Trim paint is more rubbery and far thicker. I've tried to treat it like normal paint before and it just doesn't work that way.
thus the suggestion to score it with the razor blade before trying to peel it.

Well in that case...........carry on

Thought you were using regular paint lol....