I've seen people asking about amber corners and hearing they cost upward of 50 bucks. Well I gotta digicam today and thought I'd share mine that I painted.

http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/li...crxcorner1.jpg

That was my first time doing
Here's my wife's accord 2nd try http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/li...1/acbumper.jpg

and here's a EG corner 3 try
http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/li...1/egcorner.jpg
what do you think




[Modified by jdblack1, 8:08 PM 8/25/2002]

 

I used this for the paint. http://www.michaels.com/art/online/D...prrfnbr=863545


orange and red. first I'd like to add that all of those are factory lights. yes it would look better to start off with clears.

How to do step by step:
1st order paint from michaels gonna cost right at 25 bucks.
2nd remove stock lights
3rd wet sand with 400 grit sandpaper.
4th rinse off and let dry
5th tape off the outsides
6th Spray a REALLY REALLY light coat of the paint.
7th wait 15 minutes and do another light coat. the 1st pic CRX was 2 coats of orange and then fogged about 12 inches from the light for even coverge. I then fogged the light with a mist of red.

the 2nd light Accord was 2 coats orange and 1 coat red.

The 3rd the EG light was 5 coats orange.


[Modified by jdblack1, 8:06 PM 8/25/2002]


[Modified by jdblack1, 8:11 PM 8/25/2002]

 

You need to fix your links

 

What kind of paint did you use? That just happened to be the only link that didn't work. LYMAN?? Maybe when I get my REX ready we can meet up and run. Later!!

 

check the link again


The CRX will run again soon

 

Your instructions are pretty descriptive except id like to know if yoru painting on the outside or inside of the glass? Ive heard of people painting inside where teh bulb goes.. that soudns messy! Im going to go your route. It looks nice, but starting with clear corners? i have yet to see a set of "non-leaking" aftermarket clear corners. They all seem to be crap. Im assuming apc manufactors them. lol

 

I've been wanting to paint my corners to full amber, but finding the paint has been the big issue... till now. I have a Michael's craft store here in the town I work!

Of course, I would paint to the inside of an aftermarket all clear lense, as for leaking issues, a little silicon will go a long way.

Justin D. Fender

 

yeah I painted the outside

 

you can also go to a hobby store and buy some orange transparent (sp?) paint... they dont have them in an aerosol (sp? again) can, but comes in little small bottles...cost about $3-4 around my area...just pour about 2 bottles in a paper bowl and use a sponge type brush from Michaels ($.25 w/ tax)...
Heres my '89 with about 2 coats...

Any my '95 with about 5 coats...

 

i just used some krylon stained glass spray paint. orange color. did two coats of that, and then a clear coat. looks very sweet and i've had people ask where i bought them at, thinkin' they were the real deal.

 

$25 FOR THE SPRAY !!!!!!!
thats outragous
i just went to walmart and got the "crown stained glass spray"
whole can was like $4.95CDN

 

[goes to wal-mart]

 

in my opinion it looks like **** and looks nothing like the real vision corners, i like my stock corners

 

so it's not your style. I don't like clears. I can't afford Vision corners and I don't see anything wrong with my EG corner I did. I'm going to redo my CRX lens. And Vision doesn't make any for EDs anyway

I'll say that **** looks


[Modified by jdblack1, 9:38 PM 8/26/2002]

 

uhh i payed 1 dollar for orange at micheals and it faded after 2 months now i have stanley clears keeping them clear unless i buy real visions ****

 

LOL! same here. I have the Krylon Stained Glass paint and did three coats. was pretty dark at first, but now its fading. and when i moved i was not allowed to take the paint with me. nor do i really feel like going and buying some more. But with my new front end thats comming soon, im not to worried about it.

Just sucks that its starts to fade


[Modified by CR-X, 1:15 AM 8/27/2002]

 

i like those corners there pritty cool

 

Mine don't leak... Got them off E-bay for under $15.00

 

nice... lol (and i was actually gonna buy a pair of ambers =P)
thats a good idea to buy paint.. do u paint the inside of the lens or on the outside??

 

Outside of the lens.

 

i found a place to buy real visions but they are like 150 stay clear

 

Just went to the Michaels here in town looking for the stained glass paint, looked and looked with no luck. I was walking out of the store when I passed a rack in the middle of the aisle full of clearance stuff, including the Krylon stained glass paint! Reduced to $1. haha, I bought 6 cans of orange for a grand total of $6.39. Glad I went to the store before buying online!

I apologize if anyone is going to try and go go the greenville, NC store and do the same, but I bought all of it.

Justin D. Fender

 

update






this corners are the stock ones


[Modified by daniel89civ, 1:45 PM 8/30/2002]

 

Painted my stock corners last week, I love the look, I painted mine a little dark since someone said they will fade, even if they fade a lot I still have 4.75 cans of the paint left over!

Here's a picture, as you can see the stock corner on this side is broken:



The other side is in better shape, but I didn't want everyone making fun of my poorly fitting front bumper... but I guess you could make fun of it from this picture too!

Justin D. Fender

 

Whats up people;
here is what i did i went to "Pearl Paint" got the "Krylon stained glass paint" $6.40 a can............did the corner lights and after they were fully dried i added some wax to them so like that they can resist better weather conditions they look pretty cool (sorry i dont have pics) even did my cluster lights amber,signals=red even the ceiling light got a taste of amber.................haha