Anyone try painted altezzas

[SmokyMcGee]

I read bout painting the inside of the lense red to have red altezzas, but has anyone here tried it? I wanna do this, but Im not wasting $100.00+ if its gonna look bad.

[atlantamx3]

Well, I am the ONLY one to have done this so far to an MX-3...

I didnt paint the inside of the lens, but sprayed the outside & then put 3 coats of Automotive Clearcoat on them.

Heres a pic:
<img src="http://www.atlantamx3.com/perry/redaltezzas/rt1.JPG" alt=" - " />

Heres a link to the rest of them...
http://www.atlantamx3.com/perry/redaltezzas/

Do yourself a favor though, only put one coat of the candy red on.. I put 3 light coats, but I should have stopped.

They still look nice, but I think they looked better after the 1st coat... You may want to do 2 just because.

And, If you can find a way to mask off the back-up lights, then do it, but I kinda wanted the smooth clear red look. And, If you do one coat, the White will still show thru and you will be fine.

[marshmallow15]

i think those 3 coats look pretty good atlantamx3... but that reverse light issue, i think, is what turns a lot of people away from doing this mod.

[kuruption1983]

smokey bro, i have the left side which has painted inside. pay me 30 bucks and i will send it your way, you can experiment anything on it since the other side is broken and gone. you cant go wrong with 30 bucks.

[SmokyMcGee]

I appreciate the offer but im just gonna buy a set of altezzas and jump right into it. Nice pics atlanta, those look sick.

<small>[ November 06, 2003, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: SmokyMcGee ]</small>

[babyblueMX3]

Originally posted by kuruption1983:
smokey bro, i have the left side which has painted inside. pay me 30 bucks and i will send it your way, you can experiment anything on it since the other side is broken and gone. you cant go wrong with 30 bucks.

is the paint easy to take off??.. how 20$ shipped sound

[monty73741]

search for how to paint taillight........
& another mxer did paint the insides of his altezza's
i will try to find the link

[mx3man83]

I did it, and it came out awesome. I put one in the oven for about 2 minutes on 300 degress, Pulled it out, used screw drivers to pop the lens off, cleaned the housing with alcohol, masked the individual light lens', then painted about 5 coats of paint and 3 of clear coat. Only having one issue so far...the factory adhesive isnt much use after you break it loose, but what i did was put it back into the oven when i was done to soften it up, then squeezed the lens back on as much as i could. I'm going to pick some sort of glue and use it when i get around to it.

[SmokyMcGee]

Is it hard to mask off the reverse lamp?

[rancid420potheadpunk]

i got my black ones in today and they look SICK. perry i'll send you some pics

[kuruption1983]

Originally posted by babyblueMX3:

Originally posted by kuruption1983:
smokey bro, i have the left side which has painted inside. pay me 30 bucks and i will send it your way, you can experiment anything on it since the other side is broken and gone. you cant go wrong with 30 bucks.

is the paint easy to take off??.. how 20$ shipped sound

aight steve, deal it is.
Email me and i will send you details on the deal. :p

[mx3man83]

IT's easy to mask off the lens', including the reverse lamp. Just have some masking tape and an exact o knife to cut the tape and press it firmly to the lamp.

[honeybabes]

here's what I did..but I sold these already because I thought it didn't match my silver mx3

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kuruption I guess was the first one I saw with carbon look

then Spydie with black

[GuidoBiRiChiNo]

Have anyone tried to put a tint film on altezzas like they do on windows?

I think that would look pretty good and very easy to pull out...

[Tyler17rose]

Jeff Abrams did that.