i was wondering if anyone has ever spray tinted their own tail lights before? (on thei g35..not pervious cars) if so...u got any pictures? i ask becuz..i ecently bought a set of overlay tint from blue bat. and messed it up..and i was thinkin about buying another set..and get it done professional..but shops want like 80 bucks for the install..where as spray tintin yourself..is like what..8 bucks for the can of spray...so i wanna know if anyone ever did it..and how was the outcome..thanks

 

you driving a luxury sport car and you want to spray some cheap **** $8 dollars spray paint on your tail light??

 

take it to a pro that does it, if you do it yourself without experience youll probably **** up the taillights

 

yea..why not.

 

http://www.jonstintedtails.com

Nuff said.

 

I did, but painting aircraft is one of the thing I do for my job. Also the overlays I have before look like crap.




I still think I need a few more coats, and when that is done, I'll get them a clear coat of paint at a body shop.

 

nice...what did u use to mask out the brake lights? or..outline it? cuz they are perfect circles...and did u just spray over the lights? or did u sand it down first? or what...looks nice..

 

Thanks.

I used regular masking tape to tape of the circles, but blue painters tape is easier to work with. As for the perfect circles, painting aircraft has a lot to do with that. Also I didn't sand the lights before paint, because I don't want to risk any damage. I use Adhesion Promoter ( like 2 coats), and I started to tint.

 

I would go with Bat's again, cause at least you can rip them off and try again, with spray tinting you can't really start over. It's a lot cheaper to buy new overlays than new taillights. It takes skill, weather, humidity, and other considerations for the spraying to come out as good as the overlays. Good luck.

 

if you ****ed up on the tailights by spray painting them cant you sand them down and restore them? kinda like the headlight restoring method of sanding down and the lens becomes clear

 

Bringing this thread back. I'm going to tint my tailights in a few weeks. I hear you can take off the tint if you use some brake cleaner. Spray on and wipe off. CityMunky can you post some more pics of your tails? how many coats of tint did you put on your tails? I like it but it might be too dark for me. My shop said they are gonna put on 2 coats. Also, can you go into detail about how you masked off the lights so tint didnt go over a certain area? My shop said it'd be really hard to do that so I should tint the whole thing.

 

you can buy the vinyl overlays for cheap enough on ebay and use them for stencils, thats what i did. spray tint is the way to go, looks factory.

 

can you explain a bit. if you bought overlays for stencils wouldnt you be only painting the parts that would be exposed (from the overlay)? There'd have to be like a reverse stencil or something thats opposite wouldnt it

 

I did it a long time ago and it came out too dark and kinda like crap, I've since redone them to a much lighter shade and they do look good, except they're completely matte, theres no gloss and no shine to them whatsoever. I guess I could spray some clear coat over but I'm too lazy.

here's how they look now with a very light coat

 

how many coats is that? just one? I could probably go just a LITTLE darker. But those look great!