HOW TO: For fixing leaking paint in this amber to red conversion for the chrome tail lights..





a. If the paint is fresh, use hot water and pour it in the light bulb hole filling to the brim of the ENTIRE housing, empty and continue this process as well as swishing around the hot water inside..

b. If the paint has dryed a little bit, your going to need to use hot water with paint thinner that has been dilluted down a bit. swish this around and the paint at this point after a few times of going through this process will definitely be gone. it will look like its getting worse spreading the paint around everywhere at first, but it will go away after a few times of doing this.



WARNING: do not get the hot water on the dum dum located on the back of the housing.. it will melt and if it gets inside your housing its not guaranteed it will come out.

let it rinse upside down so the water can drain out the tail light housing.. use (preferably) an air compressor to dry out the housing through the bulb holes and space between the outside lens and the 2nd lens that meets where the bulbs screw into.



now start from scratch this time and be more careful the next time you attempt redding out the amber rear lens.

 

kudos!!! after seeing that it leaked in the other thread had, i thought u were screwed. Nice job, what gave u the idea?

 

well my buddy said to use alcohol to get the paint off inside, and i was thinking paint thinner may be better.. we decided to gamble with the paint thinner since we thought the tail was ruined for good anyways. i almost bought a used oem chrome tail off ebay too, thank god i neglected my impulsive trait for once.

saved me 100+

 

Damn! I never even thought of that! Light looks good as new.

 

mail them to www.lightwurkz.net they will take care of it!

 

should go into the how to's BUMP.. Quick thinking

 

Do you read?

In the thread where everybody told him he was screwed, somebody already linked him to lightwurkz. In THIS thread, he's saying that he found a way to fix it. What exactly is lightwurkz going to "take care of" for him if he mails his fixed light to them? Are they going to look at it and say, "Yup, that sure is fixed all right!"?

 

bwhahaha...dont be baggin to hard on the ish lol (he came on teh org before i did)...sure is funny though

 

That was funny.

 

Where can I find a how to on painting them ? Looks awesome too btw.

 

to detach the tail lights from the back of the car, follow fish's smoking tail light 'how to', then:
http://www.kevinfisher.net/web_serve...light-mod.html


buy 'Testors' candy red enamel paint from you local hobby shop store and spray into the back of the amber lens section of your tail light (where the bulb screws into). mist it lightly or youll get the disaster i had which i corrected thankfully. do many coats till your satisfyed..

make sure you let the tail light side right side up (back facing the floor) when drying each coat so the spray spreads around when drying.



if it does leak because you sprayed too much, use my 'how to' to fix your mistake. i just finished redding out the amber and it looks 10x better all red, than with that ugly amber color.

 

Thanx for that. How does it look at night when illuminated ?

 

looks red.. not as red on the top but i think thats because i havent put enough candy red spray on.. im gonna put a couple more coats on when i get some time off.

 

So... can this be done with the red part of the tail light too... with a different color? Such as... I have SE tails... what if I sprayed both the amber and red parts of the tail with VHT niteshades from the inside. How would that work?

 

Just to be on the safe side you are talking about using a transperant red right???

 

i'm talking about transparent black... VHT Niteshades... if that comment was towards me.

 

um yea thats the stuff..


you can try but id urge against it. im not sure you can get that out if you do screw up. i guess test it on something else if you have something first, then if it works out.. more power to ya.