gstatus929

Hey guys,

I posted up a thread about tinting the tails on our e63s a while ago,

Ive come to the conclusion that blacking out the lights dark will look cheezy.... however i feel the red is too vibrant.


has anyone experienced tinting or painting the tail lights very very lightly. Just to make the red one shade darker.

if so please post any and all pics.

Vic55

I just cant tint the red with contrast on my white car... I love the bright vibrant contrast. I forgot what color your car was though...

Now on my 997TT its different cause the car is red already and I went with a black and red only theme...

Igor180

Small world...

Danny hit me up, it's Igor (owner of g35nyc)347 821 6176, we did a bunch of work for the w212 E63's

eurowerx

Do Not! not a fan at all especially on white.

E-Ridium 63

Agreed. My opinion is it makes it look cheap. But to each their own.

E-Ridium 63

Sick, Vic.

How do you keep those pipes so clean? Mine are developing spots that won't polish out by hand. Looks like yours are still in factory floor shape.

Vic55

Mothers Aluminum Polish and 5 extra bucks to my car wash guy.

E-Ridium 63

5 bucks is totally worth it. Takes me like 15 mins to work some of that crap out and it doesn't look nearly as good as yours.

EmE247

I would say always to tint out the taillights but from looking at Vic's whip... don't do it.

EVERYTHING including the stock UNTINTED taillights look sick on Vic's whip...

Igor180

You don't need to smoke them completely... you can always do a VERY light shade like we did on this car

gstatus929

Hey Igor, long time no speak................. very small world............. i would do a verrrry light tint like shown on the g37.

talk to me as far as price

gstatus929

my cars white btw

Igor180

hit me up 9175585164

K-A

Igor: You seem to have lots of Tint options, which is great. I wanted the lightest tint possible (the lighter the better on taillights, as nothing is cheesier and cheaper looking than a solid black tint), so I got the lightest out of the 3 levels the Shop had, and I'm happy with it (kind of a "Cherry" color in brighter lights). However, the guy who got his W212 done in that picture got it done the worst way IMO, the white part needs to stay un-Tinted or else it looks really bad.

Here's mine:

Igor180

In the end, it all comes down to personal preference. He wanted to eliminate ALL the chrome off the car, that included smoking out the clear part on the taillights. It was actually a pain in the *** to do those tails, first the clear part was smoked, and wetsanded, then the entire thing got smoked making the smoked part a little darker and giving the red a dark cherry look. I personally like how it came out, looks a lot better in person.

That aside, everyone and their mother blacks out their tails and leave the clear, he wanted his to be a little unique.

Racing Dad

Igor, i love that tint job. I completely agree with everyone. Usually i think the tint makes the car look cheap, but i think it depends on the car color too.

But i've been looking for a light tint like this forever!

i have the palladium color and always this just slightly darker color.

too bad you guys are all the way out in NY and couldn't do it for me. But it's good to know there are options that i can pursue.

princealidds

I think it looks pretty good, I got it done on mine......

gstatus929

igor, i have a question do you use a spray booth or just a can? I know the last place i did my lights at sprayed them and baked them in a special booth so it came out perfectly shiny. you could not tell it was painted. looked like glass