Rear lights

blackmk3 · Post by **blackmk3** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:53 am

does anyone know where i can buy some smoked rear lights for a mk3?

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:14 pm

do u mean completely smoked or the indicators and reverse light smoked?
if its the second set u want, try volks-apart (they have a website but i can't remember it) there reasonably priced, n german, french and swidish do them as well i think

Krupa · Post by **Krupa** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:35 pm

doug&dan wrote:try volks-apart (they have a website but i can't remember it)

http://www.volks-apart.com/

That's where I got one of mine from, Â£40 a side though, it's not too cheap.

I did think about flagging down someone with a knackered late Mk3 with the half coloured lamps and offering them money if we swapped lenses, then I found one lens at BVF 2001 - Â£15!

Bargain!

If you can wait, and you're lucky, you might get a set at one of this year's shows.

optima21 · Post by **optima21** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:38 pm

or you can get some tinting spray for about Â£10 and paint your old lamps

ereeiz · Post by **ereeiz** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:46 pm

They're only Â£44 odd each from VAG

iirc!

I think im gonna go for full smokes

Exinferis · Post by **Exinferis** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:36 pm

optima21 wrote:or you can get some tinting spray for about Â£10 and paint your old lamps

Just a thought. I have some Polycarbonate smoke spray which I used on the shell of an R/C car. Could I use the rest of that to smoke my rear mirrors?

optima21 · Post by **optima21** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:39 pm

yeah you probably can. I used a mixture of 5 parts laquer to 1 part black paint to paint the back lights on my GT. I did sand them down to key them for the paint to stick better using 600 grit wet and dry paper, and also removed the "E" markings, for which I could fail an MOT test if the MOT tester really wants to check.

Exinferis · Post by **Exinferis** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:00 pm

Cool, might give that a go then. Cheers!