WKcherokee

i have seen alot of cars with tintedtail lights and i think it would look sweet on my truck and would like to know what the best way to do it is? if anyone has any ideas or pics of were they have done it would be great

JerseyJeeper

Best product to do this is VHT Nightshade. You can pick this up at most auto parts stores like Pep Boys, Auto Zone and Advance Auto Parts.

WKcherokee

ok thanks man what is the process do you know?

1996XJSport

I tinted my tail lights last week with Rustoleum Lens Tint from Autozone. I first started out by taking the tail lights off my XJ and I wetsanded them with 1000 grit sandpaper. After that, I cleaned them with alcohol and a microfiber towel. After that dries, start spraying the lens tint in VERY light coats at about 10 inches away. I applied about 3-4 coats in total, as you should only do enough for the tail lights to appear black. I let the lens tint dry for a half hour and then hit it with two light coats of clear, followed by one heavy coat. After that's done, it'll take about 24 hours to fully dry. You should take some buffing compound to them a week later and polish them up to get a nice shine. I did the same thing to my friend's pontiac G6 coupe and it looks great.

bholle

do what the man says, a lot of people don't wet sand or put on the clear coat. then they see the tint chipping and flake off

XJnLvilleGA

Wanting to do this soon... Um dumb ? Wet sand= water and 1k sandpaper. And sand it lightly?

JerseyJeeper

I just wiped them down with mineral spirits to get them nice and clean let it dry and taped off the areas around the lights and then sprayed on three very light coats. Here's how they turned out. Really the only good picture of the tail lights I have.

1996XJSport

You got it! Just make sure you use a nice flat sanding block so the wetsanding comes out nice and even

XJnLvilleGA

Word. This is def going down.

XJnLvilleGA

so i went and got the nightshades, and a some 1000 paper for my sanding block. got home cleaned and wet sanded the taillight. let dry......then made sure by drying them some more. taped it off and started spraying. NOW for some reason there would be areas on the lights where the vht would kinda move away from it. kinda looked like the light had herpes or something idk???? Can anyone help, cause this sucks. i think i messed up this one light, thankfully i have the one still on the jeep so i wanna get this right. thanks guys.

xj^REMY

before spraying the tint, u need to clean off with some alcohol, & make sure not to touch them with bare hands (skin leaves oily residue that the tint wont adhere to)

re-sand (wet sand) to take off the tint, get back down to the plastic & re-spray

XJnLvilleGA

Like rubbing alcohol

razor02097

I just used a green scotchbrite before spraying... Turned out fine for me...

1996XJSport

Yeah that's what I used. You need to clean it off after you wetsand as there's tons of dust left on the tail light. That's probably why your niteshades got herpes . But yeah, anyways just do what the guy said, wetsand your tail lights back to their original color as best you can and respray, this time prepping with an alcohol "wipedown" lol.

1996XJSport

Yeah that works too, pretty much the equivalent to 1000 grit.