ScKcBc

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I bought these tails from an ISF member on here. He had them painted and cleared professionally. They came out great and I loved the way they look but I missed my LED reverse lights being bright as the paint kind of dimmed them. So I went and trimmed around the reverse lights and wet sanded them down. Then I wet sanded the entire tail lights to make it have a matte finish. Then I wet sanded the blinkers. Here is the prev look and final result.



Here they are at night on the guys ISF before I bought them. I dont have a prev night shot















And here they are now. LMK what you guys think. I may polish the reverse and blinkers to make just those shiny and leave the black part matte black

ScKcBc

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And yea I gotta black out those red reflectors, I know.

Black04IS

i think they look sick the way they are now! i think the mix of matte and gloss finish might look funny, but if you can easily put the matte finish back on if you dont like it then i would try

How were you able to create that finish? just by wet sanding?

shadowman

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Damn... looks hella nice.

ScKcBc

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yea, 1500 grit gives it the matte finish.

I spent prob more like 4 hours being honest. But it was a nightmare getting the corners after it was taped so I spent alot of time on it

ScKcBc

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I'd still trade for 2011 tails though

Sffd103

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Looks way better!

iRock

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i like

Jmags

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Looks good with the lights on, The Matte looks WAY better then the first pics


It'd prob look better if you tinted your windows!

ScKcBc

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They are tinted 40% reflective, it's very light

you can see it kind of here

IS250Kevin

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Very unique, props on the diy

ohiois350

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very skill to do that, but i am not the fan of black out stuff, i think it look good in the original way

ISF4life

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hummnn 5.5 hrs ? hummnnn too kind about half of that but i didnt redo it, just straight up sanded and painted , looking good

dmk08

I think it will look good at night but I'm not a fan in the daytime.

simple

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I would just tape all the parts that u want and use lacquer thinner to take off the tint, only takes a few minutes vs hours.