Color matched tail lights.

[yournamehere018]

I have seen 2 trucks with color matched (instead of blacked out) tail lights and on both trucks it looks good. Has anyone here tried it yet? What all is involved? Special paint or just regular factory match? I want to find someone to do mine if it still lets light through.

Here is a google picture of what I want to do, same color even.

[oleshifty]

You spray it with clear with a SMALL amount of paint mixed in...several light coats. Works awesome

[Razgriz1]

I would love to do this too. here are some 2004 Pewter tail lights on ebay right now Chevy Silverado custom tailights painted : eBay Motors (item 120565592859 end time May-11-10 07:33:44 PDT)

[fubutx]

i would like to get something like this also

[molitor]

i want to paint match mine in white

[fubutx]

i wonder if you can do this to like the headlight also? i would like to see a pic of that

[badseed91]

I did mine to match my blue truck. I sanded them with a grey scotchbrite pad then dusted base coat around the edges. After that I used blender and mixed it 50/50 base coat/blender and sprayed the whole light with that until i got the desired darkness. Then I sprayed them with clear. Wet sanded them and recleared them then wet sanded again and buffed them. I did my third brake light also. I get more compliments on that alone than I do on the rest of the truck. It should take about a day to do them with dry time if you have a heated booth or an oven. If you have an oven let the clear dry till you can barely see a finger print on the surface you painted them on and not the light itself. Once they are dry to the touch put them in the oven for a few minutes at 120 degrees to finish.

[dropem]

heres one i saw that was white

[oleshifty]

I've seen white/blue/grey/black lights.


Lighter colors show a little better color then dark, but with headlights, you're going to loose some output no matter what. People will def see you, but I wouldn't want to be on backroads with them.

[Frenchy]

Thats when HID's and the HI4 mod comes in handy