is it possible to spraypaint your tailights and still use tem legally?

 

Possibly, but I've never seen it done.

 

If you paint them people cant see them.So guess what when some rear ends you for not having break lights its your fault not theres.Some things you cant do.You wouldnt want to paint your head lights?If you your looking for something different get some tented covers or something.Becareful.

 

alright tight ya i dunno i jus t wanted to see if anyone had done it. i painted my skid plate and it looks tight

 

thats tight, yo

 

you can paint the reflective part inside the tail light to give it more of a black look when they aren't on, but shine plenty bright in use, since the lens is still stock

 

Now are you wanting to paint the Lens? the taillights are a little different than a skid plate.

 

no i know i cause i like that i dea about painting the reflective part, is it hard to do?

 

All you have to do is get the whole unit out of the truck and paint it. Not hard at all. When you do it. Get some fine sandpaper 200 grit is fine, then prime it before painting it. Good Luck, and get some pictures when you done.

Kent

 

Thats gonna look tight when your done.

 

A couple of years ago someone had posted a mod on one of these sites to get more luminous for your backup lights you painted the inside chrome or silver. Never heard of painting them black. Someone does make lights that appear to be black until you turn them on. It looks like the insde of the lens is a heavy window tint.

 

alright ill try it and ill take pictures, so do i need the take apart the actual light? or no

 

www.4crawler.com has the writeup on the inside silver to be brighter for the backup lights.......


if you wnat something different, get spray tint and tint the outside of the housing... if you wnat your housing all one color and there is more than one color, paint it red with the testors translucent paint spray for model cars

 

Look at this thread https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116/candied-taillights-2nd-gen-47630/

 

I have my tails painted red. BUT...it is NOT spray paint. It's a transparent model car paint. Regular spray paint is opaque, you can't see through it. That would not be tight for your tails, b/c then no one could see them. And that is also not tight.

 

hehehe... thats what i said

 

where do you get spray tint? cause i have alot of model car places around here so i might just do them all red.

 

if you have a 2nd generation 4runner or any kind of a toyota truck and are sick of the nasty orange i would deffinately do this it looks tight and only cost me 3 dollars. ill post some pictures later today.

 

the model stores.... they have the spray that is red..... its translucent....

i have heard you can get the spray tint at autoparts stores... its normally in the ricer section

 

yes the model stores have the paint the kind that you want is testors candy apple red paint it should say transparent on the label on the front of it. its easy to use but it takes kind awhile to dry which is kinda a pain.