Vince

haha... cool, stop by and let me drive your car.

awiner

I will next time I see your car outside...

peet

Not for nuthin' but I think you're supposed to spray that stuff on the INSIDE of the lamp housing. That way you don't have to clear coat it.

This started out by people using smoke paint from model shops -- I'd guess that the jap stuff you had is a take off/same formula.

Anyhow, all the folks I've seen use it on the inside.

Just $.02 worth.

BTW: where'd you get it - what's the name of the product? Pic of can?

b4chow

hey vince,

which store did you go to? what clear coat did you use?

Vince

went to darkside. Its in the valley. fow clear coat i just went to the home depot and bought some clear laquer.

BrabusCClass

Looks good. How much was the can you used? Mine was $30.

PoonerElRay

I have Folia Tec smoke out light spray. The instructions tell you to spray on the outside of the lens housing, not the inside.

I think it'd be a good idea to spray on the inside so washing won't be of concern.

I don't know why they don't tell you to smoke the inside. Hmm...

Freddy

With my experience with sprays, it is better to spray the outside. Usually the plastic is colored. Because the plastic is colored it will not get really dark by spraying the inside. Of course it will get darker but the result is maybe not what you want. If you spray too much the light will not shine through anymore.

PoonerElRay

Vince:

The smoked tail lights look really good with your obsidian black. Great job! Do you think it'll look good on my Capri Blue?

Scylas

I wonder...

Vince

i think they would look good on just about any color on the coupe. The w202 came with blacked out tail lights. Remember that. Capri blue would look really good. I was considering that color.

As far as spraying the inside it will be hard to get an even coat.

230

What about if I have whited out side lights on Brilliant Silver, would smoking the tail lights be too much of a contrast do you think?

preyx

I was seriously considering whiting out the lenses, but it's much harder to pull off than tinting them (at this point). We still have to wait until a white-out version of the taillights have been released. I think that tinting them will actually look pretty good because it'll match the black of the rear window shader. As soon as I get the money I'm gonna have my tint done.

604_kpEscoba

do u peeps think it would look good on a metallic black c240?
i want to be lil diferent ^__^
o and is it easy to do i suck at that stufff

Benzino

i was at the downtown la motors today and i saw a c class with smoked tail lights and it looked really clean, it just had the clear part was smoked looked good. does anybody know were i can get that done? do the make smoked bumper lens also?

20FHK02

Get a can of smoke lens paint at any rice shop and paint it yourself.

Iceman's C230

I could be wrong, but i think some one did this to their c230 here,and it looked very nice and clean.

LiquidSmile

Use the



https://mbworld.org/forums/showthrea...threadid=34231

nevide

look for any post done by xeon, I know that in his sig, he has a pic of his smoked taillight.

b4chow

if you were at downtown la motors chances are those tail lights were done by RB tech across the street...

cobra

Can't find the thread about who smokes out taill lights. Anyone know? I think there was a web site for this.

S_kLaSse

https://mbworld.org/forums/showthrea...threadid=48811

mbphreak

Hey crew,

As some of you know, I was supposed to smoke my tail lights to a translucent pewter silver this past weekend, but the paint ppl went to Florida for some exhibition I guess...anyways I was thinking maybe I don't smoke the entire thing, maybe I should do what Brabus did to their SL in opaque Pewter silver...what do u think?

A) Full
B) Just the reverse portion like this SL pic

Xeon

i like carlssoncrs style...smoke only the "red" part

CarlssonCRS

dude....just the white part is ugly... we did that for someone before.