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exactly how to f**k did you take the red and orange things out i tried my hardest over the long weekend with a hair dryer etc to heat up the sealant s**t on the tail lights but alas never happened and gave up i might try the lights if ya chuck a quick faq up cheers (or i'll wait a few weeks and buy of ebay)
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| WIKWOK |
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Hey mate..
TIKFD6 has had his done same as that for 6 months and it looks hot on his car.. he has been doing it for a few of the local boys.. Much tidier looking than the dodge ebay ones IMO.. Cheers, Nik |
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| TROYMAN |
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{USERNAME} wrote: exactly how to f**k did you take the red and orange things out i tried my hardest over the long weekend with a hair dryer etc to heat up the sealant s**t on the tail lights but alas never happened and gave up i might try the lights if ya chuck a quick faq up cheers (or i'll wait a few weeks and buy of ebay)
its a little difficult to get the tail light appart but if your patient it and dont rush they can be pulled apart . i used a stanley knife that i heated up with a gas torch and carefully cut along the join then carefully pryed the lense off. i spent about 1 hour and a half on each light. and i used black silicone to seal it back up .. i have read someone else has done the same thing using a dremmel to cut around the join of the lense.. |
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| sexyr6 |
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i picked up a pair of damaged ones from the wreckers, removed the brocken lenses buy simlpy brakeing small pieces off at a time with a pair of multigrips, then useing a dyegrinder with a metal grinding bit i removed the rest of the lens from the back/reflector section. to remove the lenses i had another set of taillights(with good lenses), i used the dyegrinder to carefully cut into the back section around the lens and then just cleaned up the lenses with the dyegrinder...
the garnish was a bit of a fluke... in one place it started to come away from the backing, so i just used a paint scraper and gentley pushed it around the join and it came apart really easily... |
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| fordebgt93 |
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when ur done r u gonna post some pics so we get views on different models and colors
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| sexyr6 |
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i'll post pic's when i have them installed on my XR, it's black (if you didn't allready know
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| sexyr6 |
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so i've fitted them to the XR they look good IMO
 , but i am not totally happy with the garnish... i glued it together with black silicon and where the silicon has squashed out on the inside looks crap  so ill remove the outer lens and scrap all of the black crap off and the re do it with clear silicon this should look much better  ...
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| fordebgt93 |
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looks good pitty u cant change the red to black in the tail lights though
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| fordebgt93 |
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what type of solvents did you use to do tail light lenses
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| sexyr6 |
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{USERNAME} wrote: looks good pitty u cant change the red to black in the tail lights though
i was looking at the pic and thought the same thing... would look much better black will get some paint this weekend some time and do it i was in adelaide some years back looking through the car yards and found an XR8 in polynesian green that had it done looked really good... |
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| sexyr6 |
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{USERNAME} wrote: what type of solvents did you use to do tail light lenses
what do you mean?? |
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| Damo |
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it looks really good, well done. I also reckon if the red bits were black it would probably look even better.
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| Steady ED |
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Should have left the red in the garnish and brakelights, stops the red reflector bit from looking out of place.
Otherwise, good job, I know how time consuming it is! I gave up when I cracked a garnish lens 
Did you paint the colour behind the garnish lens, or what? Cause its a pretty good match compared to others I've seen.
_________________ ED XR8 Sprint - S-Trim, V500, 249rwkw |
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| sexyr6 |
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{USERNAME} wrote: Did you paint the colour behind the garnish lens, or what?
Cause its a pretty good match compared to others I've seen. yeah when i did the tail lights i repainted the the reflectors and used the same paint to do the garnish |
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| Steady ED |
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{USERNAME} wrote: {USERNAME} wrote: Did you paint the colour behind the garnish lens, or what? Cause its a pretty good match compared to others I've seen. yeah when i did the tail lights i repainted the the reflectors and used the same paint to do the garnish Ahh, clever! Nicely done man. Might have another crack it at one day!
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