S4 Tail Light Revival

Wait4FD · 04-11-2008, 03:23 PM

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.)

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.

I applied a 2-3 coats of flat black. ( I waited about 10-15 minutes between each coat)

Then I ripped off all the masking tape.

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.

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

Phoenix7 · 04-11-2008, 03:59 PM

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

VR8 · 06-14-2008, 08:43 AM

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?

04-11-2008, 03:23 PM	#1
Wait4FD The Newbie Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	S4 Tail Light Revival 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.) 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. I applied a 2-3 coats of flat black. ( I waited about 10-15 minutes between each coat) Then I ripped off all the masking tape. 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. There you go. Put em back on your car and you have some shiny revived S4 Tail lights

06-14-2008, 08:43 AM	#3
VR8 Dragon Slayer Alumni Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Lynchburg, VA Posts: 204 Rep Power: 18	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?