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[Bojan]

I think I will paint the outer liner only. This way the lighting effect surely will not be affected.
And I see that some OEM lights are painted this way.

The plan is to rough up the chrome with scotch (or 1000ish grit) and apply several coats of black satin acrylic.
Or if the chrome layer is sanded off easily, I would remove it totaly, apply plastic primer, and then several coats of black.

[biggriffin]

I think I will paint the outer liner only. This way the lighting effect surely will not be affected.
And I see that some OEM lights are painted this way.

The plan is to rough up the chrome with scotch (or 1000ish grit) and apply several coats of black satin acrylic.
Or if the chrome layer is sanded off easily, I would remove it totaly, apply plastic primer, and then several coats of black.

Just touch the shiney and it comes off.

[minifreek]

I did mine a couple of years ago, I painted everything except for the reflector for the full/main beam and the indicators...

I also painted the inside of the lenses too, to give the effect of having eyebrows/lightbrows...

[Bojan]

I did mine a couple of years ago, I painted everything except for the reflector for the full/main beam and the indicators...

I also painted the inside of the lenses too, to give the effect of having eyebrows/lightbrows...

Did you sand the chrome off?
Did you use plastic primer?

[Bojan]

Just a quick refresh:
I have repainted them, and they came out quite good IMO. The procedure I've used was following:
- san of the chrome with 1200 wet-sand (it was realy easy, several wipes and there is no chrome film)
- clean with plenty of water
- degrease (I've used terostat 8550, cleaner used for cleaning surfaces prior to painting or applying glass-primer).
- one coat of plastic primer - let it dry for 5 mins
- one thin coat of matt black spray (tack coat) - it is quite thin, you can see trough it - it's serves as a 'base' for next coat(s)
- 2nd coat of matt black - after few hours - this one is done quite thicker, and it covers all the patches - this is a finish coat

I have step-by-step photos, will upload them.