Repainting tails!

[Kev]

I need help not in painting them but in taking the previous paint off... the previous owner did them but sorta shity they are turning white.. they are smoked and i been told if i repaint them red on top of the smoked red its gotta get darker for the lights to show.. what should i use to take the paint of to repaint them??

[ck_taft325is]

Hrm. I would sand lightly with some fairly fine sand paper so as not to gouge/deep scratch the plastic. It'll be a bitch, but it'll work. Then re-spray.

[Kev]

yea i ended up doing that and came out good thanks tho

[White325is]

Id go back to stock. Stock looks good on dark color cars.

[noE30]

Id go back to stock. Stock looks good on dark color cars.

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I painted my tails all red on my black e30 and next year I'm definitely switching back to stock.

[StereoInstaller1]

Wipe them down with normal cheap paint thinner. 95% of the cheap Testors paint he (obviously) used will come off.

[ck_taft325is]

Stock on dark cars? I've always really appreciated the all reds on darker cars. Now stock on Alpine, that's a look where I really don't mind the stock tails. Although I'm really considering going all reds as well on the Alpine 318is DD...

Not to thread jack! Sorry about that.

[White325is]

Wipe them down with normal cheap paint thinner.

Paint thinner will cause the plastic to crack.

[StereoInstaller1]

Paint thinner will cause the plastic to crack.

It didn't on the 2 sets I botched. Maybe PA got shittier lenses?

[owenjm]

I used a small buffer and compound to clean off previous
paint and tinted with niteshades

[ck_taft325is]

It didn't on the 2 sets I botched. Maybe PA got shittier lenses?