hawthorne93mn
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Hey all it's only been 2 days but....
Cracked open my crappy headlight and after trying a few things (wow chrome paint is a massive joke) I bought a chrome tape called Chrome Brite by Trim Brite 3" by 60" roll. it is intended for air cleaners and such so it is supposed to be heat resistant. I used that to tape ove the reflecctor area and removed the low beam shade. so far the results are great I siliconed the headlight back together (so I can get it apart FAST if the tape melts or starts on fire....). So far reuslts are great and after 2 days it hasn;t begun to discolor. I also obviously polished the lens. I will update ya all on whether or not it works out long term but so far I am reallly psyched!. Timothy and Hawthorne (my 93 Mark VIII)
By the way has anyone chrome taped their grill? I am thinking about giving it a shot... Can't look worse... and I am not gonna paint it champagne colored to match the body as that would be um weird...
PS as I was chrome taping it I thought wow there are thousands of engineers tossing in their graves as I an using tape to replace a highly compicated and ineffective reflective coating process. HE HE HE!
PS 2 got the CHrome Brite at Checker auto and it's most recent packaging incarnation says nothing about heat resitance although older pkging on the interent says it is heat resitant...
Hey all it's only been 2 days but....
Cracked open my crappy headlight and after trying a few things (wow chrome paint is a massive joke) I bought a chrome tape called Chrome Brite by Trim Brite 3" by 60" roll. it is intended for air cleaners and such so it is supposed to be heat resistant. I used that to tape ove the reflecctor area and removed the low beam shade. so far the results are great I siliconed the headlight back together (so I can get it apart FAST if the tape melts or starts on fire....). So far reuslts are great and after 2 days it hasn;t begun to discolor. I also obviously polished the lens. I will update ya all on whether or not it works out long term but so far I am reallly psyched!. Timothy and Hawthorne (my 93 Mark VIII)
By the way has anyone chrome taped their grill? I am thinking about giving it a shot... Can't look worse... and I am not gonna paint it champagne colored to match the body as that would be um weird...
PS as I was chrome taping it I thought wow there are thousands of engineers tossing in their graves as I an using tape to replace a highly compicated and ineffective reflective coating process. HE HE HE!
PS 2 got the CHrome Brite at Checker auto and it's most recent packaging incarnation says nothing about heat resitance although older pkging on the interent says it is heat resitant...