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Blacking out tails

Discussion in 'Exterior' started by b0i, May 24, 2006.

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    b0i da KiD

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    Blacking out tails

    Since I was going for steathly blacked out look to my car, well except for the rims I think. I was planning on blacking out my tail, like the RSX below. But him seems to have one of the nicest I've seen, because some night shade i have ran along seemed to give it a dull look.

    Any ideas on how to give it a nice glossed out look, like below?

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    jtweezy New Member

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    looks like its a cover on there.....
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    monkey4005 New Member

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    do what i did and all these people are suppose to do. use night shades, then follow the directions on the can where it says use clear coat. thats what i did and it tinted them AND made them glossy. you have to use clear coat over the night shades if you want it to look right.....

    i can post up pics of mine in about 2 hours or so if you want......
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    Machinehead2k5 Chemosabe

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    post some pics up i wanna see!!! :cool:
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    ok...

    heres my tail lights..
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    and heres my corner lights i did also..
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    follow this guide and you should be al set, all i have to do now is wet sand the clear coat and buff it, then it should be real shiny...
    http://www.350z-tech.com/zwiki/Tutorial:Smoking_Taillights

    ps sorry for the crappy pics the camera was dieing.


    CLICK ON THE PIC TO ENLARGE IT FOR BETTER QUALITY PIC.
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    rainbow_star New Member

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    Did you smoke the corner lights or just black them out??
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    both....

    i blacked them out but not enough and i saw this stuff and tried it also and smoked them.
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    b0i da KiD

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    Yeah, I was going to say that looks really nice, but... it wasn't enough.

    Thanks alot!

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