My bumper lenses were kind of dirty being a 1990 model. Not bad for a $2.50 paint bottle and 30 minutes of my day off.


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what kind of paint did you use and how'd you do it??

 

Tamiya clear orange Part Number X-26. Send me yours and I'll paint em for ya.

Heh. My girl and I have a cat named Tinkerbell. I call her Tink and Tinky. See avatar.

 

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yep-- used the same for my DIY ambers!!
Tamiya clear orange acrylic

I just removed them while chillin' at work--
took them to the bathroom and cleaned them up.
applied 2, maybe 3 coats with a paintbrush-- and viola..

perfect!!

i'll post pix lata


Modified by skunkintegra at 9:03 AM 2/8/2004

 

Wish I could have bought a small packet not a whole bottle. I barely used any. Even though it was only $2.50, every little helps when saving up for suspension.

Sweet. Did 3 coats myself and it came out surprisingly good. My girl asked me how much I paid to get it painted. Heh.

 

good color choice looks very oem,nice and clean.
that would also be a good idea for the civic guys for their corner lens.

 

nice DIY. where do you find that paint, i wana buy some clears on ebay and do that for my 3rd gen. oh yea, i assume you painted those on the inside?

 

Here's what I used. $5 can of stained glass paint from a craft store called Michael's here in VA. Worked like a charm. Had to put it on kinda thick though.

 

Krylon is what I bought....waiting for it to get a little warmer so I can paint them....how many coats did you use BTW, and did anyone do prep work IE cleaning with alcohol swabs or just plain soap and water?

 

I used soap and water then alcohol

 

If you use teh Krylon start with very thin coats.... I found it likes to run a bit.

 

 

I used a sponge cut into a strip so that it would fit into the bottle and just wiped it on. Worked pretty well and easy to do large sections at a time. Did each side in less than a few minutes. I could see how spraying would give a cleaner finish, but I did not want to to risk making it run, but I'm impatient so doing many light coats probably would have made me spray the whole can on one side. Hehe.

 

ttt


(sorry for the crappy pic)

 

they look nice and clean

 

they look ok

 

nice

 

I wonder if they make that stuff in yellow. I want to do my fogs like the Lexus GS's... HIDs n' yellow fogs... yummy

 

that looks much better than the old faded what not..

 

Thanks for the idea's