Doing My Tail Lights Today.
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Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Port St. Lucie, FL
Finished my tail lights! To make a long story short, I wasn't able to find the swivel compass knife. So instead, I just used a regular compass and carefully cut them out with a regular X-acto knife. They're not hard to make, just tidious. DEFFINETELY WORTH DOING! They look great!
My total cost was about 50 bucks, instead of the 450+ I would've payed for the real thing.
My total cost was about 50 bucks, instead of the 450+ I would've payed for the real thing.
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Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Port St. Lucie, FL
I painted them with black laquer... Put a few coats on them to make sure light didn't shine through. Vinyl sounds like a good idea, but I don't know if there would be fitting issues. Unfortunately I have no pics yet... I'll see if I can get a few pics of the finished product online within the next week.
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I went to my local crafts store for an Xacto compass, and then i hit up a local mom-and-pop vinyl shop for the black vinyl, total cost <$10, but I already had the heat gun.
The vinyl allows you to **** it up and redo it. if you use paint, and you mess up, you're screwed.
The vinyl allows you to **** it up and redo it. if you use paint, and you mess up, you're screwed.
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Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Port St. Lucie, FL
Vinyl sounds like a great idea... But in all honesty, it's pretty hard to make them look bad unless you completely unalign the circles. Even if the circles aren't perfect, it's hard to tell. Once the exterior smoked lens is on, it masks the flaws, and when the lights are on, they glare on the lens and what not. As long as they're in general circular shapes, and they're aligned relatively correct, they look just like the real thing.
