Can you smoke CLEAR bumper lights?

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Apr 7, 2004 | 12:32 PM
  #1  
I bought the car w/ clear bumper lights already on them, and since in doing AE headlight mod, smoked corner lights and fogs, i was wondering, can you smoke the bumper lights too? I know for all the others you just take the lense off and paint the inside, but i see people spray painting the OUTSIDE of bumper lenses, can i just spray a LIGHT coat and not have it pure black, just like some speckles, or is there another way to do it?
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Apr 7, 2004 | 12:36 PM
  #2  
I don't see why you couldn't just use some smoke spray on the outside. It will probably wear off after a few months but they're easy enough to take off and paint some more.

And cheap enough to replace if you really foul them up.
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Apr 7, 2004 | 05:09 PM
  #3  
Could i just use normal spray paint?
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Apr 7, 2004 | 07:36 PM
  #4  
if you use normal spray paint, it's going to be crappy.... just my .02
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Apr 7, 2004 | 07:43 PM
  #5  
You can smoke them just fine with regular paint. That is what I did. High temp black glossy is all I had around and it worked out just fine.
If you want them to be shiny you might wanna use some clear coat though.
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Apr 7, 2004 | 07:44 PM
  #6  
Use a lense tinting spray...you don't want your signals to lose brightness.
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Apr 7, 2004 | 09:58 PM
  #7  
you can also open them up and paint the chrone housing with black paint.
Results:
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Apr 7, 2004 | 10:06 PM
  #8  
geo, did you use the same method to open your bumper lenses up to paint as with opening the headlights to do AE mod?
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Apr 8, 2004 | 02:49 AM
  #9  
Or you could just buy them off of customaxima
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Apr 8, 2004 | 03:47 AM
  #10  
you can buy them like I did

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW
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Apr 8, 2004 | 05:23 AM
  #11  
personally i think that to match the AE headlight mod you should open up the lenses with a heat gun and spray lense tinting spray on the inside unless you are plannaing on tinting your headlights, then just paint them black
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Apr 8, 2004 | 06:13 AM
  #12  
I didnt know you could open up theses lenses, so in that case im just gonna do that, so all my front lights are going to be tinted on the inside
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Apr 8, 2004 | 07:19 AM
  #13  
Quote: geo, did you use the same method to open your bumper lenses up to paint as with opening the headlights to do AE mod?
same thing
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Apr 8, 2004 | 07:37 AM
  #14  
Awesome I was thinking the same damn thing yesterday after doing my Headlights. I knew it was possible to open them up. Looks like thats my project for today.
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Apr 8, 2004 | 01:40 PM
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http://www.vqpower.com/v2/modules.ph...howpage&pid=52
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May 1, 2009 | 02:53 PM
  #16  
anyone know how to open up the bumper lights? I tried looking cant find it and some of the sites don't work...
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May 1, 2009 | 03:12 PM
  #17  
they will look much batter if you open them up and just paint the inside but not the glass and they will just look like this

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May 1, 2009 | 03:43 PM
  #18  
Quote: anyone know how to open up the bumper lights? I tried looking cant find it and some of the sites don't work...
You dug a 5 year old thread out for this? Its the same process as opening up a set of headlights. Use heat and pry.
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May 2, 2009 | 01:03 PM
  #19  
Quote: they will look much batter if you open them up and just paint the inside but not the glass and they will just look like this



Yeah that's what I want to do. so there is isnt any screws that need to be removed? and also do I just heat around the lense? and then try to pry it out?
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