get like a 600 grit, wetsand it down to the paint and vht. then take paint thinner and rub it on, but be careful and it should wipe off. then youll be left with the stock plastic lense. wash them, and start the process. if you dont wanna do the paint thinner, just sand it all the way down. with my tails, when the sun is shining on them they are a dark dark red, and when its cloudy they are black. i love them

 

Looks good. I now know how big the darn air silencer is. Lol. Did you happen to take that off while you were working on it? I know it's not in your list, but just curious. Is the duct tape on the air box a new mod too?

 

yeah i will figure sumthin out first time i ever did them of course i didnt no **** bout vht and i blacked them out so much and got a ticket tried to redo them and havent had any luck since lol but i just order the pcxp buffer so hopefully ill get them right its the main thing i hate bout my car other than my front lip is fucked now cause i ran over a semi tire at like midnight one the highway

 

the duct tape adds 50 hp didnt you know the crash cracked it above the filter, so i put that on to keep the dirt out. i might grab another stock airbox, or just a cai. i would like the cai, but i dont know if my dad would like it. but that silencer is HUGE! if i get a cai, it will obviously go, but if not, then its staying

 

iv got the stock airbox i could sell lol

 

i got a local guy who said he would give me his for free. but if it doesnt happen, ill let you know

 

Nicely done. I thought the color looked off just because of reflection. Looks good.

 

do a full detail on ur car maybe it will blend the paint and make it match better who nos lol but in most of ur pics it looks fine exp last one

 

i cant detail the new parts, they didnt even get touched with anything. if a buffed them, even wiped them with a rag, it would close the paints pores and cause it the bubble and fail. so for 2 weeks, i cannot even chamois my car dry on the new parts. but like ive said before, it isnt noticable from a distance, only close up

 

Why do u need to re do them kidd

 

Only shitty thing is it's raining now

 

You can wash the fresh paint just no wax for about a month.

 

Ya I can spray it, but can't quote it with a cloth. So I used my garden hose to wash them off. That's why the fender is wet in one pic, but the car isnt

 

Damn that's a decent bit of work...


Looks better than new though!

 

mine need redone cause there not good enough for me lol maybe for the regular guy but i want them to shine and look tinted stock

 

I still have an issue with the fact that your insurance didn't fix this.

 

yeah for real lol i just pay a deductable and they pay for the rest no questions asked.

 

Looks good. Did you wash the engine bay while you had the extra access?

 

They won't pay for my car because I don't have full coverage. If I had collision, they would have. But I didn't Shibito. I sprayed it down a week ago so it is still pretty clean

 

Dude!

That looks great!!

About time huh!?

Small correction though;
Typically metallic paints will have a slightly different tint depending on the conditions in which they're painted;
It has noting to do with the paint mix being off, or fading being evident on the older panels - it's purely becasue the metal flake settled slightly different between your factory paint and the freshly painted panels solely because of the different conditions in which they were painted...
It's for this reason that generally when a car with metallic paint has side panels replaced, the rest of the sides will typically get blended, and re-cleared.

or at least this is how it was explained to me by painters...

 

Well I stand corrected then. Thanks Jon. Now I can be in the cruise pictures lol

 

yeah when i had my wreck they blended my paint as well cause theres like 13 diff. color whites who would have known lol

 

I couldn't leave the car there though, I need it. So I left my upper grille bezel there for them to match as close as they could, it needed painting too

 

hmm get full coverage its worth it in cases like this. i got a free rental when they fixed my car did 6k in damage lol

 

The hood seems a bit off..