Clear Corner Painting
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Vehicle: 2001 Hyundai Tiburon
I was thinking she's probly going to use a colored metalcast and then wheel clearcoat. In which case, there would be much better quality paints available to cover the metalcast.
If I were going to metalcast a chrome surface, I'd probly sand it down, use metalcast basecoat, metalcast color coat, then a clearcoat, then wait for it to cure for a few days so it does not haze the surface of the clear corner, then reassemble.
Those metalcast annodized surfaces are friggin sweet http://duplicolor.com/products/metalcast.html
If I were going to metalcast a chrome surface, I'd probly sand it down, use metalcast basecoat, metalcast color coat, then a clearcoat, then wait for it to cure for a few days so it does not haze the surface of the clear corner, then reassemble.
Those metalcast annodized surfaces are friggin sweet http://duplicolor.com/products/metalcast.html
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lol!
Originally I was gonna metalcast them with the smoke color. I tried it out with just that, but it didnt make much of a difference. So I put the ground coat over that, then the color coat again, but still didnt like how it looked. So I grabbed the graphite wheel paint (which I've used for not only wheels, but dashboards, wiper arms, engine components, everything. It's just an awesome all around paint) and painted over it all. Came out really smooth and nice. So that's how I did it for both headlights. I ended up sanding the clear corners and using primer, cause the cheap chrome came off so easy, minute I took a sponge to clean it, it was gone. So anyway, yeah, looks awesome.
Originally I was gonna metalcast them with the smoke color. I tried it out with just that, but it didnt make much of a difference. So I put the ground coat over that, then the color coat again, but still didnt like how it looked. So I grabbed the graphite wheel paint (which I've used for not only wheels, but dashboards, wiper arms, engine components, everything. It's just an awesome all around paint) and painted over it all. Came out really smooth and nice. So that's how I did it for both headlights. I ended up sanding the clear corners and using primer, cause the cheap chrome came off so easy, minute I took a sponge to clean it, it was gone. So anyway, yeah, looks awesome.
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thanks guys! This color actually has a bit more reddish brownish undertones, while the car color is more blueish based, but whatev still belnds well. I was so sick of teh vinyl eyelines I had one there, and the chrome was just too blingy, lol.
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Looking good TC fing02.gif
You'll be fine. The light that the corner's emit isn't affected by this mod in any noticeable way.
QUOTE (cbehage @ Jun 25 2007, 12:54 PM)
Are they still bright enough to see the blinkers in the daylight. I have thought about doing this too.
You'll be fine. The light that the corner's emit isn't affected by this mod in any noticeable way.
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I had done the same mod.. in the same colour (looked great on a dark green car) and while the lamp was SLIGHTLY dimmer (you lose most of the efficency of the reflector) it was not really all that noticible due to how bright the lamp is in the first place