tutorial on how to retrieve your old corner and tail lights.

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tutorial on how to retrieve your old corner and tail lights.

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if your pockets are thus:
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what you should do before buying a new pair of headlights of numbers you take sandpaper
80, 120, 220,350,500 and the work completed after 1500 or maybe grit number 2000, all these are water based.

first thing is to take the passes with sandpaper and give plenty of water to each beacon and so goes out the opaque or maybe something that I have joined this example that what happened is that the pair of corner dropped a boat or out despinturante paint and melted the plastic a bit but that was no problem

After sanding and doing the work until the sandpaper 500 to water the focus debiese be able to apply the product. adherent to plastic cojemos apply two passes with a space of 10 minutes then apply polyurethane varnish past thick for reals we shine, let it dry after a lapse of 10 minutes on each pass is up to each see how many passes are do stay with immense brilliance and luminosity not lose anything ... I applied varnish first and then maybe a bit obscure lighthouse and the rear corner, apply a pinch of black polyurethane paint to the vessel in which he had prepared and polyurethane lacquer osurecer so after several passes around the focus becomes a darker color without losing the brightness ....

photos then let the procedure colocare photos sanding, and varnishing.
I hope to be helpful.

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Re: tutorial on how to retrieve your old corner and tail lights.

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Wow, I've never seen the first gen front turn indicators look so bad. Great job cleaning them up.
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Re: tutorial on how to retrieve your old corner and tail lights.

Post by astrozam »

Very nice job Hebert =D> Thanks for the "How To"

I believe the lights fell into some kind of chemical Aaron ( because the rest of his van is mint condition )
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Re: tutorial on how to retrieve your old corner and tail lights.

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They fell only the rear lights and corner since I do not use them as that I have the clear tail lights and corner clear lights these I them have of refill just in case it happens one unforeseen with others.
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Post by Rebel »

Nice job. Man they were in bad shape. How bout flying up here and doing the ones on my Jimmy. :muhaha:
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sorry but the pictures change....

please close the theme.... thanks...
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