I want to darken my head and tail lights, and was wondering about the benefits/drawbacks between getting the paint and buying the custom cut tints. I'd like to make them as dark as possible (legally). Anyone recommend a specific product?

 

You could spray them with VHT Nightshade. Although you gotta research the process of spraying them (spraying coats, wet sanding, buffing, etc)

 

i got my tail lights painted the only bad thing is that if something happens w ur lights the dealer wont give you new ones cuz it voids the warranty atleast thats what i was told

 

i just have a vinyl overlay, i have yet to put it on but at least i know when i do that if i get pulled over i can just rip them right off.

 

I have been thinking about darkening my tail lights also, but i find that those vinyl seems to be really dark. I wonder if people can still the tail light clearly at night time.

abbid, how does urs look like at night?

 

Blue Batmobile has some good overlays if you wanna go the overlay route.

 

lol, REPOST!

 

I watched a fellow RX-8 club member attempt to put the overlay tint on his. He did his headlights so he has some experience in doing the job. But watching him for three hours on just one tail light. And then the last bit it stretches to much and is ruined. That made me not want to tint them.
The problem is you have so many convex and concave areas on the lens that it takes forever.
Spray tint is the way I would go.

 

I just did mine... posted in the West Las Vegas Lounge:

https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...postcount=5377

i'll take some daytime pics soon.

 

haha ironic. it took me 3 hours per taillight too...

 

i just recently painted my lights..i went the overlay route once i was oging to do both front and back and after realizing how much time and patience i would need and see how they looked after being done on some other cars, bubbles, wrinkles, i decided i would just rather paint...it look gr8 and not wrinkles or bubbles the only thing is after a few rain showers it starts to lose its shine but you can always buff and wax you car including the lights and it will be back to being gr8

 

I have tint on mine, but I plan to redo them with paint. Everybody has a rough time with the rears. It took me all damn day to get the rears done, and then they filled with water and I had to get them replaced. So now I have tinted heads, all 6 windows, but no tails. Looks strange lol

 

Yea ive been thinking about painting them VS tinting them as well. My uncle owns a body shop so I think im going to take it to him to do the paint. Any recommendations on a translucent paint or were not to paint?

 

just use a clearcoat with a couple drops of black.