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[joecitizennn]

Porsche uses pretty high quality lenses, so it is not terribly likely that you are going to find lenses on your car badly faded. However, if you don’t like the orange in your rear lights, and you don’t like orange side markers, you can very easily change them to red. Or, if you are like me, and have an aftermarket light that has been bleached by years in the sun, this is the how-to for you.

I am starting with a faded aftermarket center light from a Porsche 924. It is in otherwise good condition.



The first step is to find the proper paint to coat the lens. I was advised by the awesome members of this board to use Testors Transparent Candy Apple Red. I did some internet reading and found that a lot of people like this paint for auto light tinting. I found cans of it at Wal-Mart for 2.97. That will be cheaper than you can find anywhere on the internet. The Testors number is 1605 Transparent Candy Apple Red. One little can will do a lot of lights.



The next step is to carefully mask anything you dont want turning transparent red.



Then rough up the surface with some very fine grit emery paper or steel wool. (roughing the surface can help paint adhere better)I skipped this step and just wiped everything with grease/wax remover until the tissue came away clean.



Make sure there is no lint or dust hiding in cracks or under letters (I found this out the hard way) because that little can of Testors will blow it out onto the paint. If you have an oil free, water free source of compressed air, this can be used to blow off your work before painting.

When painting, find a place away from wind and dust (duh) preferably indoors, but make sure to open all the windows so you don’t loose too many brain cells or kill yourself. Apply the paint in smooth even strokes working from one end of the piece to the other, yadda yadda,,,



There now, wasn’t that worth $2.97?






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87 924s
88 924SE gone
447 hp cgt clone
87 924S gone
84 944 sold
83 944 sold
89 turbo S LSD, ABS etc
86 951 white rocket
85 944 sport everything.
84 944 sold.
87 944 sold

[Peter_in_AU]

Wow! Great result. Thanks.
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1979 924 (Gone to a better place)
1974 Lotus 7 S4 "Big Valve" Twin-cam (waiting)
1982 924 (As featured on Wikipedia)

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