Taillight Renewal & New Lens Review

[RockinRiviDad]

I recently had my bumpers re-chromed & taillights obviously needed some attention. Here are pix of what I was dealing with & the steps I took

 

The one dent below the driver side taillight bent the taillight bezel enough to crack it & broke the taillight lens. I was gonna try to salvage the taillight lens with a lot of plastic polish & epoxy. But quickly decided to buy new ones instead. 

 

 

 

Bezels cleaned up pretty good with a little steel wool & acetone to remove oxidation & adhesive from old gasket. They are not as nice as I hoped for due to them being pitted pretty badly. I would love to get new ones. But at 500 bucks for a set I think I'll pass for now. Maybe I’ll revisit this issue if/when I decide on bodywork/paint 

 

 

 

Old reflective paint was flaking off on the inside of the housing & oxidation was taking over. Cleaned, sanded & painted housing. The paint I decided to use was called Dupli-Color Universal Chrome. The can had a pretty chrome cap & had me envisioning how good that would look on the housing haha. Sales gimmick got me good haha. The paint was simply silver. NOT chrome haha. The housings definitely look better than before. But that “chrome” paint is now in the trash haha

 

I haven’t been home to see the taillights illuminates in the daylight. But all jokes aside, the silver paint seemed to do the trick. Lights look bright enough in the dark (see last pic). I did place an order for LED’s...I may not need them after all 

 

 

 

 

Taillight Review:

 New taillights I purchased from James Kehr at BestOfferCounts look 1000 times better than my original ones. Timing was perfect. I called looking for good used ones & he had just received the first set of re-pops he is having produced. His explanation over the phone was that they are NOT for the Concourse build guys. There are blemishes & scratches in the finish. $235 gets u 2 taillight lenses, 2 reverse lenses & 2 gaskets for taillight lenses from Rubber The Right Way + 17 for bezel gaskets ... not cheap but a good investment to help from getting rear ended

 

I could not get good pix of the blemishes. But once its all put together u can hardly tell there were any blemishes to begin with. I tried polishing lenses to get scratches out. That didn’t work. Although, the scratches are not very deep they seem to be part of the mold or something. There were a couple of spots which totally looked like a finger print where the person checked to see if the plastic had hardened enough?? Oops haha. They didn’t polish out either. 

 

The lenses have ALL the same markings (lettering) in the face of the lenses & all the same locating tabs. They may pass on a show car...but not a Concourse car like James explained. 

 

Products always ship promptly & well packaged. Overall, I like the lenses. But u saw what I started with

 

 

[Schmiddy]

Wow David, this looks absolutely awesome!!! Great job! 🤘🤩

 

[frenchy51]

Nice! Make sure they're bolted on tight.....With that new Sniper EFI the acceleration may pop them off! (-;