Re: Tail lamps painting

["Gary G. Erickson" <erickson@teleport.com>]

>Did you happen to see the manufacturer or brand of that plastic lens paint
>you mentioned in your post??   I want to get the "smoked" look for the tail
>lamp lenses of my Coupe, but I don't really want to spend $500 (US) or so
>for the Hella replacement lenses...  Sounds like some of that black lens
>paint could be perfect.

This was a topic of discussion in rec.autos.vw.watercooled a couple of
weeks ago.

I've quoted here the procedure that supposedly gave the best results:

> I just found an alternative to buying dark lenses and turn signals.
> Testors makes a specialty paint found only at specialty stores. You will find
> it under the "Model Master" name Transparent Black #2549. And since it is
> designed to work on plastic, it's perfect. One can did my turn signals, parking
> lights and tail lights. The only prep was a light sanding with 600 grit wet
> sand paper. The results are great. And all for a cost of about $5.00 with
> sandpaper.

All disclaimers apply as I have NOT tried this myself yet.

If somebody has a spare set of taillamps and wants to give it a test,
please let us know how it works out.

later,

Gary