Paul_M

OK cheers mate, looks like black it is then

Would still like to see a pic on a dark blue Scoob if anyone's done it?

dhorwich

someone did post what they looked like on a black car dont know if this any use..... but it did look good..!!!

You could do them blue, but dont know how this would look, it would probably need to be the same blue as your car for it to look good..

Good luck

Dan

Paul_M

OK I've taken the plunge, went into town and bought a can and given it a bash... still waiting for them to dry properly before taking off the masking tape but already it appears it's gonna look the business .

Pics to follow once it's all done (probably tomorrow cos I'm going out on the **** soon). Cheers for the tip Dan, doubt there's many mods that make such a difference to the looks for £13!

dhorwich

yep.... looks good when its done...

get some pics up..!!

Dan

Paul_M

One (rather crappy) pic for now, definitely looks good IMO



Might need to darken them a bit though, can't really tell in the pic but you can still see a bit of orange from some angles if you look closely. The light shines through as good as it did before tinting though.

dhorwich

I had the same problem mate...!! i painted them in the garage and when i reversed out in the light you could still see some orange, so, back on went the masking tape e.t.c and a few morw coats....

Looks good...

Dan

ricco

Here is my atempt....



Piccy is not v good quality i'm afraid.

EVOLUTION

could you not get the light clusters off the car to do this. cos i carried out this mod on a saxo and it was so much easier with the clusters off.

Paul_M

Probably more hassle from what I've heard. Not difficult to do with the clusters in place, took me 10 mins to mask off both lights plus you'd need to mask off the red part and reverse light part anyway.

Ended up giving it a few more coats because I could still see the orange when the car was parked in the sun. Looks spot-on now, indicator still shows through bright orange as it should but when off it looks like a factory cluster like the STi except darkened instead of clear.

I'll try and get some decent pics tomorrow.

Paul_M

OK finally got a decent pic! Nice and dark looking, can still see a tiny bit of orange when the sun is shining right on the light (you can see it on the left hand light in the pic) but still looks good even so and any darker the indicator probably wouldn't show through properly.

Definitely looks better than the standard orange IMO. Right up there with the clear STi lights!

ricco

I deffo agree with Paul.... I reckon it looks excellent, don't know why no-one hasn't manufactured any like that yet....

What rear bumper is that you've got Paul?? Certainly not standard

Paul_M

Cheers mate... dunno what the rear bumper is TBH! I reckon it's a WRC style like that fitted to the 22B (obviously not the exact same since mine is a 4-door without flared arches). It was on the car when I bought it, likewise with the adjustable WRC rear wing.

ricco

Yeah, thought it looked a bit 22Bish.. Looks good though

CHRIS_D

uh oh.....

guess what i might be doing saturday

looks really nice BTW, mines a silver scoob too.

chris

dhorwich

looks good on silver....!!!

make sure you get some pics so i can see..!!!

Dan

Krade

This so much cheaper for a diff rear look than buying STI lights.
I'm gonna do my front indecators too. are they easy to remove? looks like to much hassel to try an mask round em if your not that confident in your masking ability.

carl

Front indicators are one (or is it two?) screws to remove. Side indicators are a piece of **** too (just slide 'em towards the front of the car).

02WrXsTi

sorry but i didnt mean to say dumb i meant it was kinda dumb b/c cars in fl are just easy to take the lights out so w/e
sorry

dhorwich

At the time i had not had the car long and couldnt be bothered to work out how to take them out, but know ive had the car a bit i know where your coming from, in that they are easy to take out...

I would still have the mask them off if they where off the car anyway so i thought i would just leave them on....

Dan

stephen30

Well nice one Dan,
I did mine today and they look the biz. May even get the OE front indicators out of the cupboard and have a go at them.

Steve

Krade

ScoobyJawa has done this with red Tint and I have to say it looks as good as black, but Imho red looks better than black on a silver car no Offence Dan, You tried red 1st didnt you? Altho I think SoccobyJawa had some orance bulbs to install too.

[Edited by Krade - 9/17/2002 12:13:02 PM]

ScoobyJawa

I noticed from the pics on page one Dan that the red you sprayed on looked very much redder on the overspray on the paper compared to the stuff I used, did use use FoliaTek or some other make?

Jen

Def. one for the front - takes about 5 seconds an indicator

The best thing I found for masking the back was to use bin bags and they stick magically to the car Although obviously I masked down the edges too

I used masking tape on the reversing lights and cut around the edge with a craft knife - not a bit was on the clear at the end Very easy

Thanks for the idea Mr Horwich! Makes the car look 1000 times better for £14 (I didn't go ultra-dark, but it still looks )

Pic of the front:


Pic of the back: (not great sorry )



Jen


[Edited by Jen - 9/10/2002 3:48:24 PM]

ScoobyDoo555

Sorry to dig this one up, but have any of the posters still got the piccies and details how to do it?

CHeers,

Dan