Tinted Rear Lenses - Not so Chav!

[Conan_the_Librarian]

I'll let you decide. Thanks to those lovely chaps at A8Parts (they are great people you know) I have a scrap rear light lens out of the skip. You'll all recognise this:



Using the penlight,





Using some tinting spray I thought I would try to recreate the American look.
The tin suggests a coat is 2 passes, one horizontal followed by one verticle so thats what I mean by a coat. I clean the lens using good old brake cleaner and after removing the seals





Which are all one piece glued lightly on the thin outside ring and spot glued on the larger inside ring I layed the first coat.

Hardly able to tell the difference and it didn't show in the photos. Just shinyer.

Then onto a second coat after 5 min wait,



Using my penlight again,





Now I think this is probably enough. But I wouldn't know unless I did a third coat.





Now I'm not to sure. By now I had lost the daylight and was working on my Random Misfire problem so unable to do a back to back comparison with my tail lights. Will do it tomorrow and post some pictures.

However, impresssions are favorable to me it looks just like this one from Paul W in the States,


and the light is still coming through amber. One thing I noticed is that I will need to polish the lenses first to remove any micro marring and swirls as basically this is a lacquer with a red tint so it emphasises any imperfections. But you do have to look close and if I did it without polishing first I know that Ska would look close!
More to follow.