alright guys, I just had a guy paint my lights, headlights and tail, i told him not too dark but guess what he did, more black than the night, is there anyway i can make them lighter? im guess sand with 2000 grit and buff???
sorry for the bad pic quality, my phone is all i had

 

Wait... you had the outside painted?

WHY?

Sand that **** off.

 

yeah the outside, i like how it looks

 

looks really dark...

 

exactly, i dont mind the darkness but im gonna be getting pulled over left and right

 

I don't want to help you. this is a bad idea, this cuts out a very important safety feature.

http://www.onethoughtproductions.com/g35mods/DIY/?p=5

Works both front and rear, although you're going to be pulling off the UV protection. So either get them resprayed or get your buddy to spray them in clear coat.

 

thanks but i dont really wanna take it off completely, just lighten it up so that u could see the headlights and brake lamps better

 

That's not going to work.

 

+1

It is a paint. I don'teven think the sanding would work. You'll scratch the crap out of it.

 

you should be able to blast the paint off with a high pressure air hose

and then have the headlight lenses clearcoated to give them a gloss finish again

just paint the inner housings..

 

how can someone so dumb have such a nice car?

 

I agree, sorry, but that wasn't a very bright idea. Painting your headlights?
On some dark raining nights its hard enough to see with normal headlights, how do you expect to see when your luminosity is cut down so much?

I had a CRX and I got dark headlight covers, they cut the light down more than half, I also had another set of driving lights that I used, some would call them fog lights but they were brighter than my headlights.

 

^ I wouldn't go as far as saying he's dumb, after all he did ask that it not be done dark. But, I disgress.

ukr_team, is that just paint, or is there clear on top of it?

Assuming your painter used something akin to VHT Nightshades, your other alternative is as you have said, (wet)sand it and buff --- although that's going to be a *lot* of sanding even to lighten it up a bit, and you may have trouble getting it sanded down uniformly. Wetsand, polish and polish again. Try not to use too big of a grit, or as others have mentioned you will end up scratching the plastic.

Hate to say it though, but the only way to get it looking right in the end is to get a new set and re-paint correctly.

 

Maybe a sample color would have been good idea. If you paint again. Just be smart about it. Ge a piece of pplexi glass and tell them to paint it to a color you like then show it to you. If you like it then paint your headlight.

Wpldn't the bluebat's 3m film work better?

 

Maybe a good idea to look into what is the law in your state for this before you go for the second set of light or the second painting.