Headlight/taillight tinting

[POPPAJ]

Who out there does this tinting? I'm looking for a quality job to do a pair of headlights. FORD no longer sells headlights for my Marauder so I thought I'd get a pair from FORD for a Grand Marquis and have them tinted. Available aftermarket are touch and go at best.

THANKS!

 

[BDF8]

For my last car I had a place that does car wraps tint them. They sell all kinds of vinyl now that makes your lights look anyway you want

 

[greenflash00]

I used a product from VHT called nite shades on mine and they turned out looking awesome. It's a process to do it right but the key is in the prep, light coats and wet sanding between coats of clear. I put about 3 light coats of nite shades on mine and about 5 coats of clear, wet sanding between coats. Then polish it out with compound to a factory shine.

 

[POPPAJ]

Thanks for the ideas!!!

 

[TERMINATED97]

I just looked on craiglist and found a shop some what local that had an add up for like $50 tail light tinting. I dropped them off and picked them up later that day. Turned out great.

 

[Commbubba19]

if the lights aren't too complicated do what greenflash did.

you don't have to wet sand between each coat. you can do 3-4 light coats of vht and then wet sand. then a few clear and wet sand / polish and you're set.

 

[thomas91169]

VHT Niteshades always comes out way too ****ing dark, no matter how you try to apply it. Light coat after coat comes out splotchy and doesnt become consistent until you do a decently thick layer and then your tails just turn black.

You can buy tint film from ebay or amazon and tint them yourself, its very simple and there are hundreds of youtube vids on how to do it. I have a few sheets at home to do the tails on my Fusion but havent gotten around to it yet.

 

[65x2]

Any decent body shop can tint some clear and knock them out in a day.

 

[Woody6799]

I used the vinyl from anchor room... its nice bc I can just pull it off if I get bored.

 

[C0bra99]

I did the spider tint because it doesn't effect the light thus making it legal. Applied it myself

 

[offroadkarter]

Just get an aftermarket set, I've used plenty of eagle eye and TYC lighs during retrofits, you can't tell the difference. If you actually wanted to do this the right way you'd have to buy marquis headlights and pull them apart. If you just put black tint on the headlight lens it'll look ghetto as hell.