Tail lights and age

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Tail lights and age

February 15, 2005, 09:05:30 PM

Got fed up with the yellowing of my taillights so I went ahead and pryed them open and took them completely apart (well one was starting to fall apart - the silicone didn't hold very well/long after I repainted the insides). A day of pain in my fingertips and some rubbing compound, look at the difference it made

I was surprised how easy it actually was to separate everything from the clear outer shell. The picture doesn't do it justice

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Reply #1 – February 15, 2005, 09:12:19 PM

Wow! that is good looking. you should post some before and after pics.

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Reply #2 – February 15, 2005, 09:25:00 PM

what? on the car? Don't have a before of the rear end.

...the picture is after on the left and before on the right. I'll get a rear picture tomorrow morning

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Reply #3 – February 15, 2005, 09:54:44 PM

oh, well either way looks better then mine.

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Reply #4 – February 15, 2005, 10:21:41 PM

Yea its suprizing what a good clean up will do... I had one fairly nice one and the other a little weathered on my Bird. I dissambled the weathered one and gave it a good clean and polish. Now it looks a lot better than the decent one.

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Reply #5 – February 16, 2005, 01:12:16 AM

I need to do that, my reverse lights are about as bad as my headlights (as in light;the headlights are clear as day, no yellow)

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Reply #6 – February 16, 2005, 08:29:13 AM

Another thing to brighten up your tail lights while they are apart, is to repaint the reflector with chrome paint. Really brightens them up. :ies:

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Reply #7 – February 16, 2005, 09:39:00 AM

Wouldn't it be more effective to sand and polish the reflectors since they're metal?

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Reply #8 – February 16, 2005, 09:42:44 AM

Mine were plastic.

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Reply #9 – February 16, 2005, 03:27:18 PM

mine too.

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Reply #10 – February 16, 2005, 03:36:34 PM

Mine have all been plastic. There is a reflective coating on 'em from the factory, but it usually fades and corrodes from age and moisture.

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Reply #11 – February 16, 2005, 03:40:13 PM

hmmm...mine feels like aluminum but guess it could be a coating. Hasn't faded at all if it is. I'll go get that picture now...spent the last 5 hours locked outside (went to go back to a body shop to turn in a job application but once I closed the house door, realized my keys were still inside). Gotta love 35 degree weather with a 50mph wind. At least it didn't rain :wtf:

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Reply #12 – February 16, 2005, 03:51:10 PM

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Reply #13 – February 16, 2005, 05:40:17 PM

that's :ies: !

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Reply #14 – February 17, 2005, 03:41:37 PM

Another thing u can do cougarman is to take apart the lens itself check out http://www.coolcats.net/stockmod/modified/taillights.html for a really cool mod. I did it to my 88 blue max now the lenses are clear and really sweet. Took about an hour minus cleaning.