DIY: VIDEO!! Baking 370z Headlights for Paint, LED's etc

Dallaz

I used Krylon fusion (fusion adheres to plastics, regular Krylon paint does not) gloss black in a spray can for the housings after wiping them down with prep solvent which may or may not be necessary, but I had ordered it with my paint so I used it in case there were oils from my hands/fingers on the housing, and to help get it all dry from the solvent in the small corner area I used my rocket blower I have for my camera lenses.

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You want to make sure all your cleaning agent is 100000% dry (exaggeration duh) before you lay down your first coat or it will not look pretty.

That was all I did for the housings. Clean, then probably 6-7 coats total of gloss black because I did light coats from different angles each time to get every little crease/crevice. no sanding or clear coat afterwards for me, I believe most people do the same, I don't know if clear coat works as well with the Krylon "fusion" as their regular Krylon paint or if its just as effective, however I will tell you when I painted my door handles and emblems, the clear left it looking more dull and less glossy, most likely because I didn't follow up with light sanding/polish afterwards but I'll never know.

For the color matched paint, I ordered it from Automotive Touchup. Their stuff is excellent! As you can see its a perfect match.

Go to their site and put in your make, model, year, and what not and it will pull up the factory paint codes that you can order in spray cans, paint pens, buckets, however you want it, you can get it.

When I did my shrouds I also used their

gray scuff pad $1-2(gray is their lightest scuff pad I believe, they have them rated by color), followed up with the

prep solvent $2-3 before doing my few coats of

adhesion promoter $7,

base coat (your paint color) $20ish, and lastly used their

Clear coat $7 as well to finish it off and that was that.

I think
That's all the supplies but I'll look back and see

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