S4 Tail Light Revival

[Wait4FD]

Before,my tail lights were dull. The black sections were faded, almost gray looking. So I figured I throw this up for the people that want to renew their S4 tail lights. (Excuse the crappy cell phone pictures. Its all I have.)
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll298/BarspinFC/Before.jpg

So I took a little bit of high grit sandpaper and roughed up the surface a little.
I masked off the sections that I did not want to paint black.
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll298/BarspinFC/Masked.jpg

I applied a 2-3 coats of flat black. ( I waited about 10-15 minutes between each coat)
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll298/BarspinFC/Flatblack.jpg

Then I ripped off all the masking tape.
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll298/BarspinFC/Awaitingclear.jpg

Then I applied a few coats of Krylon Clear Gloss. (Again I waited in between coats) Just make sure when you do the clear coat, that you are in a non windy and non dusty environment. You don't want to get dust and crud in your clear coat.
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll298/BarspinFC/clear2.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll298/BarspinFC/Gloss1.jpg

There you go. Put em back on your car and you have some shiny revived S4 Tail lights :001_302:

[Phoenix7]

Great job!!!! Now you gotta post pics of them on the car.

[VR8]

Interesting choice to do the flat black and then clearcoat. When I had my black 7 painted I had him do the whole rear in the gloss black. I liked the uniformity of all glossy. I'd be interested to see what the difference was between yours and mine. Got any pics yet?