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Smoking Tail Lights and Rear Reflectors

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Old 10-21-10, 12:25 PM
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its a pain in the butt to wrap vinyl around the curves of the tail light. i got frustrated and got a really hot heat gun and pretty much melted to to wrap around the light.



ps. i took it off 2weeks later bc i like it better without the smoke. i do have to reflector blacked out. (my car is SBP)
Old 10-21-10, 01:19 PM
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I was searching for different ways to tint my tail lights and I found a nice clean way.

I took my IS to the same place that I got my windows tinted (Tint World) and they did a very clean job. I have a 2010 IS so it has the little white L on the tail lights and didnt want those to be smoked so what they did was wrap the entire tail light in a clear bra, sprayed it, and then cut out the L with an exacto knife. So now if I ever want my lights un smoked, I can just take off the bra.

I hope this helps!
Old 10-21-10, 01:21 PM
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Quick question, anyone got a pic of a black IS with black reflectors & stock taillights?
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On my Is300 i did a light smoke and on my 250 i blacked them out,
The way that we do it is our patent pending dye that i worked on with ppg directly. I can go dark as you wish or really light. We use a scratch clear as last step. we can go gloss flat or satin as a finish.

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Old 10-22-10, 08:32 AM
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just save your money and time and paint them... if you really want the blacked out look.. ull wind up taking the vinyl off and painting eventually .. the IS's tails arent easy to vinyl becuase there oddly shaped
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