Vassago

+1 For vht! I just did mine last weekend and it looks amazing. I didnt sand after the base coats of vht. cleared it with three coats and it turned out sweet. i wanted it textured since my cars getting shot with some satin in a couple weeks. Ill post pics soon.

00SS4780

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I tried the tint. Looked great but I had a corner that wouldn't stick so I pulled them off and bought covers. Here is a pic of it with the tint on them and the reverse cut out of them:

rasputin

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no, ur car looks great. IMO I like the way your tail lights pop so to speak. keep it stock (even though I like my headlight armored'd tails)

Black_Z28

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I say use some VHT, I did mine a year ago, and really like the results. Wet sanding is really not that hard, once you get a hang of the pressure that's needed.

Here's a link to my post.

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MasterTomos

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I think tinted tail lights look like crap personally (no offense to anyone) I'd personally just add stainless camaro letters to the back of the car so everything isn't so dark. Murdered out/all dark colored cars really lack character, detail, and definition IMO, it's pretty tasteless to just make everything the same/close to the same color.

There are always exceptions to the rule, and some cars can pull of tinted tail lights, but 99% I dislike it. Just my .02, of course

BCKNBLK

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nothing hard about wet sanding,,, just use the proper grit and use lots of water. It will go dull but a coat of clear and let it dry and its shinny again.

subliminal

well I did it last weekend and I'm satisfied with the results, alittle darker than I wanted but it still looks good I think. I did 3 coats of vht and 2 clear







and one from before

Camaroking1996

Are the tail lights still pretty bright when they are tinted?

BCKNBLK

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when your car looks that sexy who cares haha jk

Camaroking1996

Haha but I would do this on my DD and if they aren't bright enough I'm gunna get rear ended so are they still pretty bright after the vht?

subliminal

Its still pretty bright much brighter than you would think.I was when I painted them my friends and we were joking around because it was so dark it wasn't even letting any light through anyways Im leaving in about a hour and ill take a picture of my parking lights from about 50' away and ill try the brakes also. Another good thing is I didnt do the led bar on my spoiler and I didnt do that for my own safety at night.

SparkyJJO

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If you do decide to do the LED 3rd brake, just do a light tint of it (1 coat VHT) that would be enough to darken it to blend in more, but wouldn't really affect its brightness.

subliminal

that would look good,with the vht its very hard to get it to look even when you try to apply lightly that's why my turned out so dark I was focusing on getting them even.

Camaroking1996

Anybody have any pics of VHT tail lights with the lights on

Mr.z/28

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I wouldnt use covers. They mess up your tailights. The bulb heats the plastic of the tailight creating a bulge. Now im on a search for new tailights.
Car looks great though.

omarrakeen

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dont use covers! if i were you id leave it stock but if you must do it use LIGHT vht layer just to make them look smoked. nice car btw

ZeeSNuttS

or switch to LT1 taillights to tie in the red markers IMO but yes tinted would look good has well. Like this.........[IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG]

Camaroking1996

Anyone with pics with the tail lights on with VHT on them

BoricuaHec01

I tinted the taillights on my old Camaro with a sheet of tint from ebay, similar like this....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Taill...Q5fAccessories
The black covers are ghetto, bulky as hell and too dark. Never tried the VHT but the tint was super sick when I finished it, not too dark and just perfect imo.



01SSNBM, your NBM looks wicked with the blacked out taillights, I haven't seen a NBM with tinted taillights so didn't know how they would look but looking at yours gave me a boner I was gonna keep the taillights in my SS original but might tint my tailights again lol. You tint your side markers or thats the blackout piece? I bought the black smoked side markers from ebay too for my old Camaro......http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/98-01...Q5fAccessories



Man cops hated me lol.

absynth408

vht. i did them on my tail lights and headlights too on my truck. only went about 3-4 times on the headlights and about 4-5 on the tails and parking up front. i have a pics here on page 1 and 3.
http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=303823