So I bought some cans of Testors transparent candy apple red paint (item number tes-1605) today. To get rid of the amber. Now my question is, and yes i have searched about this before, but anyway back to the question. I know you can take the light apart and paint the inside, and i have also heard you can just tape off the outside and paint that. What job lasts longer and looks better?

 

Im also interested in doing this. Where did you pick the paint up crazed?

 

I painted the outside of mine black and i think it looks pretty good

 

that looks good stupid how is it holding up in the elements?

 

i did my camaros about a year ago...just taped and painted the outside.....yr lata and no difference in shine or anything

 

what type of paint did you use?

 

I have not done this however I would imagine the inside would be better protected but doing the outside would look better. If you paint the inside you will look through the amber plastic and see the red, on the outside you actually cover the color and since you just spray it on I wouldn't worry too much about lasting along time since you can just spray them again if you need to.

 

i believe that is vht nightshade black paint. it is sold in summit. alot of people use that on their tailights.

 

I picked up the testors 3 oz. at my local hobby shop... $3.29 a can, prices my vary depending on where u pick yours up

 

I would paint both the outside and the inside of the taillights.......at least that's what i did.....

 

..im confused...your painting your taillights with regular paint? wont that look like cr@p?

 

I used the testors paint and just went over it with 2-3 light coats from a distance. It is holding up great and looks no different now then it did in august. I also added 3 coats of clear coat.

 

I like the red over amber on the Rear tailights. I got rid of the amber on my bird altogether, although I had to move the turnsignals up by the brake lights.

I would imagine painting the inside would last longer because it is not exposed to the elements.

 

Same here

 

might only look good on a black car though......

 

and, NO, i will not change to iroc/grid taillights.

 

Damn Graboid that is sweet as hell! Which are the turnsignals and which are the reverse lights?

 

i do belive thoes are the stock export lights.

 

looks good Jimmy. Got a couple questions for ya. Did you just paint over the amber part or did you do the amber part and the red parts? did you use any clearcoat also? thanks bro.

Mike

 

No, the export lights have yellow where the red is, and red where the yellow is. I think i have a pic of it... let me search.
Nope, I dont have one.

 

I painted the red and amber, more coats on the amber then red though, only painted the red so it would match perfectly to the newly painted amber. And No I didn't clear it...yet. I plan to soon though.

 

So you guys just used plain Testor's paint? Does that affect the visibility of tail lights at all? I'd like to black mine out.

 

It's a stock RS taillight. I painted the amber part with Black color/clearcoat

 

these are euro spec...



Garboid, woah, that looks awesome.

 

reminds me alot of my berlinetta taillights except the stripe is black.

 

heres some threads
https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=155769

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=151326

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=126873

I did it on my car