LOTC

I just bought a pair of cleartails for my LS and I am gunna paint them 2/3 red.

Has anybody had experience with the red film paint?How many coats am i suppose to do?

I have a japanese type that can peel off if you messed up.

LOTC

EPK the can is in Japanese I not going to take a Japanese class just for this spray can.

retrodrive

Spray until you like the darkness of the color. Its very easy, I did that before.

LOTC

i tested it on a CD holder and all these bubbles came out

retrodrive

you need to do it in very thin layers. one on another...maybe 5. dapends on how dark you want it to be.

LOTC

**** man I only got one can and the LS tailight are huge,I got four pieces to spray.

Do I wait till one layer dries over do I just spray over it after a few seconds.

petrojeff

Ok Dogg, I've never painted clear lenses like these, but I do understand the chemistry of paint. The reason the CD holder showed bubbles is cause the paint acted as a solvent and the CD case is made of a shorter length polmer than the polycarbonate that the lenses are made of. Additionally surface tension in wet paint is greater than that of dry paint, and wet paint tends to try to dissolve the dry paint. Simply put, spray the paint on the clear, in thin layers taking care to dry each layer between sprayings until you like the color. Additionally be sure you remove any grease etc before you paint. Good Luck.

LOTC

I just hope I do it right those cleartailight cost me $300.:eek:

petrojeff

Try it on a small piece of the new one, or on a piece of the old one. The only way to make an error is to spray too thick, or spray too soon and not let dry.

petrojeff

Soooo? Dogg how did it turn out? Any tips for all the Lexus designer dilletantes? Let us know!

LOTC

Do not try the sray paint film guys,the curves ont he LS tailights makes streaks.

Thanks GlobeCLK the Red Tint worked out awesome,easy and simple,cut and paste. Totally awesome I probably have the only tailights in the U.S that are 1/2 red and 1/2 white.
I was gunna go for 2/3 red and 1/3 white,but the half and half combo grabs your attention more.


Total of six panels 3 are red and 3 are white.Totally awesome.

zushwa

I hope the PO PO think they're awesome too.

LOTC

Hey they are legal all the brake lilghts are covered with red and the singal is clear but the orange bulb makes it look orange.

TonyN

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Edogg,
how did you mess up? what kind of paint did you get? mine were fine.. i got the one you can acutally peal off if you mess up. I spayed over the yellow part and it look great, no streak and such. The only thing i didn't like was it was dull, so go with tint.. like you already did. It's shines . well pose some pic for us to see. Tony

LOTC

Yeah the tint worked excellent even makes the tailights newer kinda like the altezza color.As for pics I will ask some one to take pics of my car at tommorows meet.

I used some japanese kind that you can peel of,but it suck big time.So I went to get some red tint film and it was cheap only $5 for a 1ftx1ft piece which beats the wasted $28 I spent on that stupid spray film.The red tint paper looks real authentic as well you cannot tell unless you are the one who did it.