Smoked Tail Light Lens

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:11 am

Somewhere there is a thread on here about how to darken the tail lights. Anyone know where it is?

Terry

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:25 pm

yep just go get some VHT Nite Shades and paint them,(small can is enough to do tails, upper brake, front turns) , lasts a long time, mines been done with it for 4 years almost now, I wax mine everytime I do the KJ and keeps them shiny and dark. You can spray on light coats until you get the darkness you want

TAHOE · **Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:37 pm

Just make sure you do light coats, don't try to get it as dark as you want the first time. You can also get the transparent black at a hobby store, hit it in many coats.

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:19 pm

Thanks guys!

Terry

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:50 am

tommudd wrote:

yep just go get some VHT Nite Shades and paint them,(small can is enough to do tails, upper brake, front turns) , lasts a long time, mines been done with it for 4 years almost now, I wax mine everytime I do the KJ and keeps them shiny and dark. You can spray on light coats until you get the darkness you want

do you have pics of yours?

tommudd · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:21 am

jsc7002 wrote:

tommudd wrote:

yep just go get some VHT Nite Shades and paint them,(small can is enough to do tails, upper brake, front turns) , lasts a long time, mines been done with it for 4 years almost now, I wax mine everytime I do the KJ and keeps them shiny and dark. You can spray on light coats until you get the darkness you want

do you have pics of yours?

any pics of my backside on here would show them, I did not do mine real dark just enough to make them look different :wink:

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:43 am

would I just be pushing my luck of getting pulled over if I did my headlights, taillights and turn signals?

tommudd · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:40 pm

jsc7002 wrote:

would I just be pushing my luck of getting pulled over if I did my headlights, taillights and turn signals?

I did my taillights, front turns and upper brake light over 100,000 miles ago and never had any problems, BUT why would you want to do your headlights???????????

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:39 pm

Im not sure if I will do the headlights yet, but I bedlined the beltline down including bumpers, fender flares and the grille and I was thinking it might look good if the headlights were tinted a little

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:24 pm

jsc7002 wrote:

Im not sure if I will do the headlights yet, but I bedlined the beltline down including bumpers, fender flares and the grille and I was thinking it might look good if the headlights were tinted a little

If it didn't cut down the light much I don't see where it would be a problem.

Terry

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:30 pm

eh Im not gonna do it now, gotta save that money for gears so I can get some decent MPGs :roll:

Robbrez · **Posted:** Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:13 pm

are the lights still bright when tinted

zzack92 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:50 pm **Posts:** 371

robberz-yes sir

AdamIsAdam · **Posted:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:15 pm

I just replaced mine with tinted lenses from a newer model. subtle but NICE improvement!

Marlon_JBT · **Posted:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:40 pm

AdamIsAdam wrote:

I just replaced mine with tinted lenses from a newer model. subtle but NICE improvement!

Oh Certainly. Depends on the color of your KJ though. Like if you had a bright red KJ I'd want to keep the bright red '02-04 lenses.

AdamIsAdam · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:18 am

Ya. I went from this stock...

to this...

Oh, don't worry about the fender and bumper, they pop right back... here's the after shot:

And in case you were wondering why I backed into that rock? It was to get off the tree that jumped out at me and did this!

So much for the trail guide's line on that one!
First time in 6 years of wheeling that I did body damage! I think it'll buff right out.

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