i'm taking my car to the paint shop really soon and want to know the best method of making my tailights look all nice and black again..... they are kind of a dark purple now from fading a bit in the sun...
anyone know a good method to bring back the black to them? high speed buff? wetsand? i want to let the body shop know the best method

thanks guys

harrison

 

There's a product made by Mother's called back to black - it's designed for dark plastic trim, and it removes oxidations and polishes over light scratches. you should try that before getting the paint shop involved - 5$ versus 100$.

 

yeah, i have some, they offer a polish, adn a cleaner. work really well as far as i know. it's a white bottle, and an off green blue colored bottle. i think they cost me about 7 or 8 bucks.

 

you could always buy new tailights.

 

cool thanks guys....

 

If it is just faded, I would sand it with 2000 grit sandpaper and then polish with automotive style polishes. You need to start with a cutting polish and work your way up to a hand glaze. This will work the best, I am sure that those other polishes will work, but there are essentially the same thing as the polish for your paint. The body shop should know how to take care of it.

 

If they are faded purple from the sun i doubt anythings gonna help..

 

would that stuff work for crackly *** faded s4 FC tails?

 

no

 

the mothers product worked really well for my s4 tails. they were scuffed from the paintshop when they sanded the body down (i guess they didn't mask it off when they sanded it) and when i used back to black, they turned out almost brand new looking. i'm not sure it will work for the faded purple lights, but like i said, it's worth a try.

 

no poilish is going to fill in the faded cracked purple
lights.

domes- you should have just had the body shop
spray those tails for you