Thread: Some new tail lights

lol its cool man.i thought about mixing my own stuff now

Originally Posted by limegreen

You will NEVER get them to shine with spraycan stuff. Maybe VHT then a good clearcoat out of a spray gun you would get the shine.

Sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way or anyone that used VHT.

not rubbed the wrong way at all, but this is 2 coats of vht, and 5 coats of rattle can clear coat. wet sanded and buffed.







vs stock tails.

Originally Posted by limegreen

You will NEVER get them to shine with spraycan stuff. Maybe VHT then a good clearcoat out of a spray gun you would get the shine.

Sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way or anyone that used VHT.

Trust me, overcast day on a dirty car, yeah they looked dull.

In person, they're super shiny. Not dull at all. I was astonished when I got them back from mike, they pretty much were glowing. Sexyness.

VHT nightshade is prolly best for ur tails, to bad i cant do it tho cause i wasted 90 dollars on tinting them and now i cant sand down and clean my tails cause it will ruin the tint so guess i cant VHT mine =\

Originally Posted by sLpGPGT

VHT nightshade is prolly best for ur tails, to bad i cant do it tho cause i wasted 90 dollars on tinting them and now i cant sand down and clean my tails cause it will ruin the tint so guess i cant VHT mine =\

I wish I knew what you were talking about. If it's tinted it can be "cleaned" off and ready for a retint. Why you'd strip of your tint to REPLACE it with VHT is BEYOND me. The BEST way to tint tails, is to use clearcoat mixed with a little bit of black and break out the spray gun. VHT is just the cheap alternative and has a bluish-purplish "hue" to it.

Originally Posted by SeanGTP

I wish I knew what you were talking about. If it's tinted it can be "cleaned" off and ready for a retint. Why you'd strip of your tint to REPLACE it with VHT is BEYOND me. The BEST way to tint tails, is to use clearcoat mixed with a little bit of black and break out the spray gun. VHT is just the cheap alternative and has a bluish-purplish "hue" to it.

The best way!! Putting black in the clearcoat is now the best way its your BEST way. I have been reading on this for months on the autobody forums and its not the best way to do them. Alot of people are using a mixture of HOK as a basecoat then clearcoating them and Flip is using waterborne as a tint then clearcoating over it. Thats why his have the wet look to them. Waterborne is costly tho. He's only one of a few people doing them that way do to the cost too. I like shiny tail lights and I would like to do mine myself someday but its maybe easier to get them done by someone else.

vht is the cheap way out. Im done posting on this comment because I have read to much info on it and people that dont do it will not understand.

Originally Posted by SeanGTP

I wish I knew what you were talking about. If it's tinted it can be "cleaned" off and ready for a retint. Why you'd strip of your tint to REPLACE it with VHT is BEYOND me. The BEST way to tint tails, is to use clearcoat mixed with a little bit of black and break out the spray gun. VHT is just the cheap alternative and has a bluish-purplish "hue" to it.

i never said i was stripping my tint off, READ, u have to sand the tails and wash it for a smooth finish so the paint will go on well, i cant sand since i have tint on, never said anything about removing my tint off

Originally Posted by sLpGPGT

i never said i was stripping my tint off, READ, u have to sand the tails and wash it for a smooth finish so the paint will go on well, i cant sand since i have tint on, never said anything about removing my tint off

Why can't you sand? Usually the last step in painting ANYTHING is finish sanding, then typically buffing and waxing.

Originally Posted by SeanGTP

Why can't you sand? Usually the last step in painting ANYTHING is finish sanding, then typically buffing and waxing.

sanding will scrap the tint, for watever reason i think they tinted my taillights on the outside and all the youtube videos iv seen with people painting there taillights is wash with soap and water and sand the lights so its smooth so the paint goes on

Listen, VHT, or watever the f*ck it's called, haters... I put that sh*t on & it looks awesome. Didn't like how it looked at first so I had to sand all the original try off & try again. After I put JUUUST enough to kinda cover the original look I let it dry then used some sort of clear coat crap I have laying around from Ho Depot. I think it's polyurethene IIRC. I put it on pretty thick & once that dried it gave it a sweet very glossy nice look/ coat. Be careful with that stuff. After my original try it came out too dark & some b*tch followed me to work 1 day years ago & called the Cops 'cause she claimed she almost rear ended me at a light in broad daylight at about 8am on a sunny day. Stupid DAB. Prolly talkin on her f*ckin' phone & she wanted to blame the pimp taillights 4 her driving like a retard, Lol The 2nd time I tried applying it I laid out the taillights on newspaper in sunlight & put on just enough to darken them slightly. I've also seen kits u can but offline where u can leave the lights alone but put like a tinted lens over the light. I actually saw one in person once on a GTP & it looked good. Look into those dude. They're not much. That way u can have the best of both worlds

VHT will shine its ass off if done right.

Originally Posted by sLpGPGT

sanding will scrap the tint, for watever reason i think they tinted my taillights on the outside and all the youtube videos iv seen with people painting there taillights is wash with soap and water and sand the lights so its smooth so the paint goes on

...... you obviously know nothing. You're supposed to tint on the outside. If you use high grit paper and don't try to punch through it, you won't scrape anything off, and if you did, you go down, take a few layers off, add another layer or two of fresh tint, sand, clear, sand, clear, sand, clear, sand, buff, wax.

I've done it before, I've done paint before, I know HOW to do it, but it's an art, and one that I'm not so very good at, which is why Mike did my second set.
I can tell that you're 15-16 and this is your first car and the first time you've done anything just by the way you type, and what you say.

Honestly, I simply was trying to give you some advice.

Originally Posted by SeanGTP

...... you obviously know nothing. You're supposed to tint on the outside. If you use high grit paper and don't try to punch through it, you won't scrape anything off, and if you did, you go down, take a few layers off, add another layer or two of fresh tint, sand, clear, sand, clear, sand, clear, sand, buff, wax.

I've done it before, I've done paint before, I know HOW to do it, but it's an art, and one that I'm not so very good at, which is why Mike did my second set.
I can tell that you're 15-16 and this is your first car and the first time you've done anything just by the way you type, and what you say.

Honestly, I simply was trying to give you some advice.

obviously i know nothing when i looked on youtube to figure out how to do it...lol but thanks for the advice

just trying to help out. honestly, feel free to paint a random piece of plastic, when it's dry, sand it down, clear coat it, etc, final sand with HIGH grit paper (ie 1500-2000), hand buff it, give it a little wax, and if you're any good at it, it should look like a nicely paint, random ass piece of plastic.

the washing and drying and between is almost a given. after you sand it, if you have a bunch of **** on it, just clean it off. just make sure to give it good dry time.

I'm sure plenty use it, but the shape of our tails make it extremely hard to use something like this...

Might be okay on those. I had those once too. Such ugly tails. LED or stock for this guy here.

I'd kill for a nice set of stockers to lightly tint. Then again, their price would kill me in return...

Am I the only one who wishes they did the hexagonal mesh design (like our grilles) inside our tail lights like they did in the F-bodies?

That would be soo sick.