okay, I bought some stock tails for my truck, but they are pretty beat up. the truck has really nice condition clear altezzas, so needless to say I want to paint them red.
I looked online and they seem to reccomend testors transluecent candy red, or plastikote of the same variety.
I looked at a bunch of how tos, but would like to hear / see first hand experiences.
The truck will be in a garage all winter so im not overly worried about the paint flaking in winter, but how does it hold up to powerwashing? and normal buffalo elements ?
You need to use a translucent red on the clear plastic. Testors is an enamel so it should hold up pretty well. If you are worried about it flaking off I would look into using a polyurethane (PUR) clear coating over that for durability.
You could find a PUR clear and add a red tint. That will hold up better than the enamel.
I would go with the any exterior translucent paint for plastic.
Another idea would be to remove the lens and paint the inside…?
this!.. used the testors red translucant on my old civic tails and it looks awesome, people always asked me where I bought my tail lights. it holds up great if you clear it.
I used Testors candy apple red on the amber part of my Jetta tails and it looked amazing. After about 4-5 years it started to fade. The car was stored winters but left out all summer. I just bought the car back, I’m going to toss the old tails and do a new set up since they’re cheap enough.
For what a set of aftermarket ebay lights costs that are already red, I doubt it will be worth the time to paint them back, and you won’t get the same light output as you would with a stock light.