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Rear lights
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:53 am
by blackmk3
does anyone know where i can buy some smoked rear lights for a mk3?
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:14 pm
by SpikeyG40
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
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:35 pm
by Krupa
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, £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 - £15!
Bargain!
If you can wait, and you're lucky, you might get a set at one of this year's shows.
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:38 pm
by optima21
or you can get some tinting spray for about £10 and paint your old lamps
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:46 pm
by ereeiz
They're only £44 odd each from VAG
iirc!
I think im gonna go for full smokes
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:36 pm
by Exinferis
optima21 wrote:or you can get some tinting spray for about £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?
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 4:39 pm
by optima21
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 5:00 pm
by Exinferis
Cool, might give that a go then. Cheers!