joeyd

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How do you paint your taillights to match your body color...do they sell covers for the tails that you can paint?..or is there another way so that it matches the paint of the car. i have a 02 and want the chrome part to be color matched..anyone??

PhxBlue

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I tried openeing my tail lights once to paint them. I failed miserably...

Y2K1JKSE

i've read posts of people opening them the same way you would open the headlights to paint them...seeing that the 02's have clear it would look pretty nice to have it color matched. shouldnt be extremely hard.

Y2K2Driver

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The headlights can be opened by heating them to loosen the glue up. The tail lights have no such glue. The cover is just held into place by the fact that it is very tight. I bought a pair of 2K tails in order to get the red/clear piece and it was a disaster. I believe what people do is cut them open and then glue them shut. They could also possibly get a second pair and cut a different line in order to get both pieces in good shape. In any case, it is difficult.

Ka$hThaRipper

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how bout this?

http://www.kevinfisher.net/web_serve...light-mod.html

i plan on doing this, seeing to it that that's my exact car color and current taillight color (red)..i think it looks damn nice...

irish44j

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the tint taillights looks good on several colors, but if you have a color other than black or silver, body-colored taillights are super-rice IMHO....Saw a blue 325i with body-colored rear light lens frames, and it looked terrible....but, it's not my car, it's yours!!!

2k3TitaniumSe

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then on 2002s how do people paint the orange turn signal red to matchg the brake light?

mclee45

iTrader: (13)

i had a body shop paint mine to body color 4 years ago... here's how they look

irish44j

iTrader: (38)

mclee, that actually looks pretty good...I guess if it's done "right" it'll look good....let me revise my previous statement and add "white" to "silver" and "black"...

MAX2000@COMCAST

iTrader: (1)

Here is an idea has anyone purchased the aftermarket tails from ebay. They maybe easier to open then the oem tails. good luck

mclee45

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i say dont even open them... mine is just painted outside...tape up the circles and paint. then remove the tape and WAL-LAH!!!

FidizzyTypeS

use the above instructions and go here.....

http://www.duplicolor.com/

SoonerFan

iTrader: (5)

why would you need to open them?? you paint the outside.

Y2K2Driver

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What they do is take a candy red spray paint and carefully spray it into the hole for the lightbulb making sure not to get any drips. They don't actually open the lights up.

releasedtruth

Mine are painted body color too. I think it looks a lot better on darker colored cars personally.

http://www.selfactualized.com/snakeeyes