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Topic #50697 9 posts Started by mrgrape
k so for a while ive been wanting to smoke my taillights
during my trip to japan i bought a smoke spray for about $10
i think the can says u dont have to remove the taillights
i think it says just cover the car and spray the tailights....
is this possible?? or do i have to do the whole removal thing?
its easier if you just remove the 3 nuts & harness that hold the tailight to the car, that way you dont have to tape off your car n leave a little bit of residue, plus you can then store them wherever to dry

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its easier if you just remove the 3 nuts & harness that hold the tailight to the car, that way you dont have to tape off your car n leave a little bit of residue, plus you can then store them wherever to dry


x2. Its so easy to take out your tail lights. I'd rather spend the 5-10 taking off the tail lights instead of taping off your car. Overspray would suck to get on your car.

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ahhh **** lol
i taped off my car off with newspaper cuz i didnt know how to take off the taillights
o well thanks
im gonna tape off extra and spray tomorrow!
inside the boot there are 3 round bits with pictures of a light on them (3 each side) you simply pull these off and then the nuts are inside there. You'll need a 10mm socket to remove them.

then you simply need to unclip the bulbs and harness from the back of the light and thats it.

trust me mate, it takes a max of 5 minutes to remove both lights. alot easier than masking it up.
5-10 to take off? i took mine off and changes all my bulbs to LED (autozone) in 6 min on both sides!
back on topic, take em off and spray em. tons easier
so basically i went on the cans website
and i bought a wrong smoke
i bought something called elegance color which i was supposed to put on the clear part......
****k and i already sprayed all over it....
what should i do now?
You can take off the spray with some paint thinner...I recently did mine and had to take it back off because I was pulled over 3 times for the same thing...I used some stuff called VHT Night Shades, picked it up on ebay for about 20 bucks total after shipping. Worked great and I loved the look but I cant afford to keep getting pulled over, especially when the cop can bust me for so many different other things, not worth the risk...

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you dont have to do them so dark, just give it a bit of tint and then the cops cant do anything it still looks sweet and then you can still have you stock tails looking good.