So I started with the back I am using sikkens clear with a rapid hardener with sikkens jet black paint mixed in the clear.....scuffed them with a grey scuff pad cleaned them with some wax and grease remover and began putting coats on...three Max after three it starts to get cloudy...as shown in the pictures below I mad a test panel to make sure I don't go to dark....


Also I am spraying these with a sata jet 2000 rp hvlp


First coat


Second....


I decided that after the second coat that it was plenty dark for me so I put the.booth on bake and here is what they came out like!




Figured meanwhile get Bmx ready for the day

 

There she is all together came out great

 

Looks good! I would like to get some of the black anzo taillights for mine for the whole black theme. Are you gonna tint front windows next?

 

Dang, if you lived closer, I'd drive on over with some beer and ask nicely if we could do mine too

 

Thats funny cause you just happen to be on the other side of the nation!

 

I like the way they came out. They are dark enough to look good but not so dark that they would dim the light too much.
Good Job!

 

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They still work for me.

 

More like that's the crappy part! But yeah man, real good job on them

 

looks good but could go a little darker to make it look better. right now they look kinda like they are tinted grayish and not black. heres a pic of mine and yes you can see my lights at all hours of the day even with the sun on them. also cops have never had an issues with them. these are my second pair i have made. my last pair were even darker but they broke so i replaced them

 

Thanx for all the comments guys and yes I would have gone a bit darker but the cops are real dinks around here so I had to play it safe lol

 

I got a ticket for my tinted tail lights. It was $116.00 here in central FL.

 

Wow that's crazy I'm surprised you got a ticket for that in Florida I used to vacation there all the time and it seems like anything goes down there lol maybe the cop was having one of those days

 

What I do to tint my tail lights is I went to autozone and got a spray can of lens tint cost me 5$ and sprayed them dark black and then put in some leds and I never got messed with and they look great