Ebay tail-light tint, what a pain

9646gt · May 4, 2009

twogts4us said:
Dittos bro - I do the same thing and have great success with them. I had them on my 02 GT, my wife's 01 GT, my friend's 04 GT and now my Mach. I also do the side markers. I thought about selling them myself as well. Best of Luck if you do.

If you can hook me up with some static tint;s I would like to buy some from you

roundboy · May 4, 2009

I had a friend of mine that works at a body shop paint my taillights...

9646gt · May 8, 2009

I bought some static tint from pep boys.....can someone please send me some temlates to use to cut it? Either in a PM or even snail mail?

trublustallion · May 11, 2009

9646gt said:
I bought some static tint from pep boys.....can someone please send me some temlates to use to cut it? Either in a PM or even snail mail?

I tried the static thing myself, went horribly wrong. I wish i could get my 8 bucks back

I ended up buying some honeycomb ones from ebay, not too bad, but the corners are a paint in the cola.

9646gt · May 24, 2009

Well I tried to do mine with the static tint. Wasn't very good looking because I don't know hwo you guys are cutting them. Mine I just put a square piece over the light and cut around the edges with an exacto knife but the edges are all jagged and stuff...can someone tell me how I can get them cut nice and straight who has done them before? I still have enough left to give it another shot if someone would kindly lend me a hand....

Mikie · May 25, 2009

04sleeper said:
I have also seen a lot of tint cause the tail lights to "Dent" in the light.

Mostly the ones with adhesive back on them.

Not sure why the do it but I have seen it happen a hand full of times.

I have noticed this too on another stang I owned a few years ago.
I had the same tint kit you bought and it seems that it held in the heat and caused the tails to dent or concave where the bulb was. Basically melting and warping the tail light.

twogts4us · Jun 1, 2009

9646gt said:
Would you mind linking me to the seller?

Sorry for the delay - I've been offline for several days. I'll personally hook u up brother - PM and email sent.

Chris

V_Eight · Jun 2, 2009

Why do you think we charge $140 installed for tail tint?

Styler · Apr 20, 2010

Hey what's up,

My name is George and found this forum through google looking for ways to customize my mustang and ran across this post. So i wanted to share my experience with this stuff.

We bought some tint/vinyl whatever it is from ebay from rvinyl and it was very hard to put on and came with no instructions. We ended up screwing it up! we had no idea what we were doing, so we bought 4 more pieces 2 from metrodecals and 2 from xpinvinyls.

The metrodecals vinyl was a bit harder as well (didn't stretch with the heat much).. Me and my friends look at each other and said how in the hell do people put this on!

So we get down to our last 2 pieces from xpinvinyls and guess what? They were way easier and stretchier to work with than the other films the other sellers had.

Just our personal experience with these sellers of this vinyl stuff.. They look awesome, but a pain to put on if you have curvy contour lights!

We been having our film on our lights for several months and no fading and or cracking yet (we have the 20% smoke by the way). I just ordered some stylish red vinyl from that xpinvinyls guy from ebay to see how it looks.

I'll keep you guys posted.

BlackStang03 · Apr 20, 2010

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I did the ebay tint, the stuff I got was thick...I ended up taking it off because the tails started to peel on the sides....waste of money, think i am just going to spray mine.

deftsound · Apr 20, 2010

BlackStang03 said:
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I did the ebay tint, the stuff I got was thick...I ended up taking it off because the tails started to peel on the sides....waste of money, think i am just going to spray mine.

trombonedemon · Apr 20, 2010

Gonna spray mine soon, thanks for the thread. Gotta lookup how to use nightshades effectively.

BlackStang03 · Apr 20, 2010

trombonedemon said:
Gonna spray mine soon, thanks for the thread. Gotta lookup how to use nightshades effectively.

How to tint your lights in 10 steps. | eHow.com

twogts4us · Apr 20, 2010

I've had Home Depot / Lowes static cling vinyl tint on all my Mustangs' taillights without any issues...now occasionally the side markers don't want to stay in place, but I've never had a problem with the taillights. For less than $20.00 you get a HUGE roll of the stuff...

68stang351 · Apr 20, 2010

I used 20% static cling window tint on mine, as well as some others here have. They key is to use heat on the curved pieces.

This one is with the sun shining directly off them, they usually look darker like in the first pic.

Edit: Wow I feel like an idiot for not realizing this thread was so old. LOL.

trombonedemon · Apr 20, 2010

BlackStang03 said:
How to tint your lights in 10 steps. | eHow.com

Thanks for the website,!

Shiroelex · Apr 20, 2010

twogts4us said:
I've had Home Depot / Lowes static cling vinyl tint on all my Mustangs' taillights without any issues...now occasionally the side markers don't want to stay in place, but I've never had a problem with the taillights. For less than $20.00 you get a HUGE roll of the stuff...

This is what I've done on all of mine as well, and I've only had a problem when washing the car with the pressure washer at the pay-n-spray. You just have to spray past them fast. It helps to have a mix of No More Tears shampoo and water in a spray bottle to hose everything down, a blowdryer to heat it up and stretch it to the curves, and a rubber squeege strip or something of equivalent function (driver's license) to smooth down the bubbles.

SaleenGT2001 · Apr 20, 2010

we charge $75 to paint the tails at work. i cant believe you guys are paying $60 for stick on tint!! you will NEVER have anything close to how a set of paint/cleared tinted lights will look!!

ninjastang125 · Apr 20, 2010

SaleenGT2001 said:

Talk about weight reduction, I have never seen a trunk delete.. Seriously those tails are nice

BlackStang03 · Apr 20, 2010

SaleenGT2001 said:
we charge $75 to paint the tails at work. i cant believe you guys are paying $60 for stick on tint!! you will NEVER have anything close to how a set of paint/cleared tinted lights will look!!

damn $75 seems steep...but I guess $75 isnt bad for a shop, hell labor here an hour is anywhere from $60-$80/hr

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