Help w/ smoked Civic taillights
03-04-2003, 02:50 PM
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Re: Help w/ smoked Civic taillights (EX R8ED)
The best thing to use is Testors brand window tint spray. It comes in a little bottle and you'll be able to do like 6-7 coats with that one bottle. Its only like 3 bucks too. Whereas I've seen that nightshades **** sell for like 19.99 at a local tuner shop. Make sure to buy some Testors clear coat spray as well. You can usually get it at your local hobby store that sells models cars and planes and trains and **** like that.
03-04-2003, 03:36 PM
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Re: Help w/ smoked Civic taillights (turbomonkeyexpress)
smokinlights.com will do my headlights, tail lights and aux lights for 230$.. send them in, they sand and buff all the markings off (stanley emblems and such) smoke them, and buff and polish.
God why would you want them to sand off the fact that you have stanley headlights, and tailights?
That is a mark of quality.
Besides seems like a pointless "mod" to me for the money, do it yourself and its great but to spend that kind of money is a waste to me.
[Modified by black2kcivic, 4:37 PM 3/4/2003]
03-04-2003, 04:38 PM
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Re: Help w/ smoked Civic taillights (black2kcivic)
dude chill.. theyre stock OE headlights... i personally think absolutely no emblems or recognition to company affinity besides under the hood is clean. my preference, My waste of money. but.. it's done right by doing it that way.. and not just spray on cheap can stuff..
03-23-2003, 10:29 PM
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Re: Help w/ smoked Civic taillights (turbomonkeyexpress)
How bout this?
Second picture looks darker than the first and the first is the more recent pic (no emblems). Looks good and only like $3 for the windshield tint stuff at Walmart. One piece did come off on the highway in the rain, but that's because I didn't apply it all that well. Since I redid it, no problems. And washing actually helps because if any of the corners are starting to come off, then just press them down since they will be wet anyway...Plus, removable and no trying to match the tails because the tint is a uniform color=ultra easy.
Second picture looks darker than the first and the first is the more recent pic (no emblems). Looks good and only like $3 for the windshield tint stuff at Walmart. One piece did come off on the highway in the rain, but that's because I didn't apply it all that well. Since I redid it, no problems. And washing actually helps because if any of the corners are starting to come off, then just press them down since they will be wet anyway...Plus, removable and no trying to match the tails because the tint is a uniform color=ultra easy.
10-25-2003, 04:26 PM
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Re: Help w/ smoked Civic taillights
I used the nightshades stuff, darkened my tails exactly the way i wanted them....
I needed something dark in the rear of my car to tie in with the rest of the black everywhere else (hood, headlights, wheels, etc...)
I needed something dark in the rear of my car to tie in with the rest of the black everywhere else (hood, headlights, wheels, etc...)
10-25-2003, 06:10 PM
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Re: Help w/ smoked Civic taillights (CIVIC dude)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CIVIC dude »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">honestly in my opinon dont use the spray tint stuff.
just get yourself some transparent vynl. It sticks on like a sticker and can be peeled off when you get sick of the look!
You can get it from http://www.oracal.com
my car:
[Modified by CIVIC dude, 8:33 PM 2/9/2003]</TD></TR></TABLE>
what am i supposed to order from oracal.com? they have alot of different choices.
just get yourself some transparent vynl. It sticks on like a sticker and can be peeled off when you get sick of the look!
You can get it from http://www.oracal.com
my car:
[Modified by CIVIC dude, 8:33 PM 2/9/2003]</TD></TR></TABLE>
what am i supposed to order from oracal.com? they have alot of different choices.
10-25-2003, 09:42 PM
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Re: (pdiggitydogg)
i actually tried the window tint thing before I spray tinted mine... it looked almost the same as mine, just very slightly less darker... only problem I had is with it bubbling (i sucked at putting it on), and with it staying there... "CivicSiRacer" on http://www.honda-acura.net (his car was the one that inspired me to tint my lights in the first place) figured out a way to keep the tint on his lights, I just can't remember what it was, I think it had something to do with a bit of superglue on the ends...
08-24-2009, 11:26 AM
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Re: Help w/ smoked Civic taillights
yea i don't know what other people are using to tint but my buddy and i tinted my tail and headlights.
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08-24-2009, 11:58 AM
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Re: Help w/ smoked Civic taillights
if u guys are gonna ruin a perfect set of tailights and super rice them, ill give u my orange n red n sum1 give me their clear/red you cant tell wat colors under
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