Painted Taillight covers.. what you think?

I got the paint from Korn (Thanks BTW) and decided today i'd paint my taillight covers. Tell me what you think!

Before



After (tried to get it from same angle, not too far off).






Im undecided if I like it or not, I do and dont... guess I'll wait a few days and see If I keep it or go back to black.

eww..paint looks good

it looks really good...but not that plasticy stuff on your gate looks so out of place. Remove it maybe?

I thought they were just tinted tails up until now. I kinda liked them black better, but it's up to you.

I like it, but ya plastic gotta go man

i like them man but if i were you i would remove the plastic and debadge the back end

They looked 100x better in black.

i don't know i would like to see how it would look with the plastic piece of the tailgate gone

Matches the rear decal very well. I give it a thumbs up!

Keep it painted. The dodge across the street looks jealous. Thats a good sign.

I like them white. I would see if you could do what the others say and find a way to remove the black stuff from the tailgate. White out the whole rear end.

thumbs down for tacky tack-ons, black or painted..

much better, dont listen to anyone, they look sick A+

justin wrote:

thumbs down for tacky tack-ons, black or painted..

Paint the taillights white, mix 30% white to 70% clear and spray a few light coats. Light will shine through no problem, and will look **** when parked.

To remove the plastic off tail I would have to fill in several holes as its not just glued on, and I dont have the time or money to do that and have tailgate repainted and I dont wanna get a new tailgate cuse I have mine line'xed already... Guess I'll wait a few days and if I dont like em ill attempt to remove the white off the covers or just buy new ones.

i completly understand not wanting to remove them but if you do i would smoke the taillights and keep the covers painted i think that would look sick

pgiordano wrote:

i completly understand not wanting to remove them but if you do i would smoke the taillights and keep the covers painted i think that would look sick

Thats a good idea... If I can find the same covers on ebay I might attempt it. I have looked but not found any exactly like mine yet...

MonteCarloSteve wrote:

much better, dont listen to anyone, they look sick A+

If he didn't want to hear form everyone, he wouldn't have posted a thread with what do YOU think in the title.

^^So feisty lol

They look good imo. I liked the black a lot. And the white ones I think look cool and more importantly different. Which is why I think I like them.

Good work homie and glad the paint got there ok. Thanks for the business.

Well im having my tranny re-built the saturday after thanksgiving and while my boss is doing that im gonna take off the black plastic from the tailgate, turns out its just double sided tape so no holes! This will clean it up a bit.. Possibly gonna remove the Dodge and 4x4 decals and replace them with gray to match the tonnou cover and the two tone of truck..... not sure yet.


Thanks for the comments everyone, keep em coming.

I like it! Debadging would give it a awesome look I think.

Looks awesome... Def different... debadged would look sick.

if you do end up doing my idea please post some pics cause i have always wanted to see somebody do this.

The white looks better than the black. But cleaning up that tailgate would make the truck look like a million bucks. Remove the badging, and the plastic. Hell, even moving the handle to the inside (shave) would look sick.

pgiordano- If I do smoke em i'll take some pics for ya. Im gonna wait untill I take the plastic off the tailgate before I decide if im gonna smoke em or not.

itzbjorn- Thats a good idea... hell I may do the whole truck one day but right now I dont have the funds for it.

pOrk wrote:

Paint the taillights white, mix 30% white to 70% clear and spray a few light coats. Light will shine through no problem, and will look **** when parked.

Yeah...you should totally do that,I've seen tails done like that in various other colors and they really look great.

if you do end up going through with my idea make sure you buy bright led bulbs for your taillights cause smoking them then putting those painted covers on definently will decrase visability. but stock bulbs will still work.

I have clear bulbs with the red rubber around them now since the bulbs with red paint (or whatever it is) flakes off or fades to easy. And to my surprise they look really red, I was afraid they were gonna be pink.

love them white, take the black thing off like everyone else said and also debadge it.

just make sure that if you do smoke them and put the covers on you check to make sure the bulbs you got are plenty bright, i dont wanna get you a ticket or rear ended

Either way works....I think it looks great