painted my tail light bezels

[svtjackal]

I tought that taking them off was going to be a PITA according to all the threads on other forums but I decided to do them and took me 5 minutes to take them off the car, I just inserted a plastic trim removal tool between the lense and the bezel and slowly pry them out, they all poped out like real easy.

I paint them flat black and they look 100 times better IMO

[RKFDGEO]

Nice job, they look great.

[svtjackal]

well George when are you painting yours?, if you don't then I am going to be able to tell my car apart from yours:azn:

LOL J.k.

[RKFDGEO]

Lol, I want to, it does look sharp, but I'm all chromed out back there. so we now have two different cars, finally. Ha, I knew you would say something, lol.

[showstopper]

What a simple mod. But it does so much to the appearance of the vehicle.

[CAMARO SS]

I did the same and it does look much better.

[ironfall96]

I was thinking of doing this. What did you do to prep the surface? Sand paper/primer/paint? What grit did you use?

[TonyNo]

Just to toss it out there, I've been meaning to shoot mine IBM.

[Orange5thGen]

Like it!!!!!!

[svtjackal]

I was thinking of doing this. What did you do to prep the surface? Sand paper/primer/paint? What grit did you use?

First sand them with 600 grit till all the shiny chrome is gone or they look like brush aluminum then a couple of coats of adhesion promoter, then 2-3 coats of gray primer, let them dry all night then in the AM shot it with duplicolor semi flat black 2 light coats then one heavy coat.

[TonyNo]

Maybe a quicker route...

Use Krylon Fusion primer!

You skip one coat this way.

[svtjackal]

I went to get groceries today and when I was walking back I got to look at the car from behind and with the black bezels makes the tail lights look darker, it's just plain mean looking