Does anyone have a good description of the process for smoking tail lights. What products are recommended for it? And how do you get remove the tails on a BE?

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

 

The centre piece is easy. There are hex nuts all across the inside of the trunk lid that holds the piece in. All you need to do is loosen those 6 (?), unplug the two cables and the piece pops off.

The tails are abit trickier, you'll have to pull back the fibreglas insulation in the trunk. The stuff is really rigid so pulling it back to get to the lights is somewhat of a challenge. Start by taking a flathead screwdriver and work it in at a corner. Then slowly pry the fibreglas up and over the rubber surround of the trunk. When you've got a comfortable space made you can ease the fibreglas off the trunk and you'll see that each of the tails is held in place by three more of those hex nuts. Loosen those, unplug the cables and you're free.

As for smoking it, you can try to bake the lights to get the adhesive gooey enough to take the two pieces apart. Then paint and reattach them. Im sorry I cant help you there as I had went the JDM tails swap route.

Should've taken pics when I did my swap as I just reread what I wrote and it seems quite longwinded. My bad.

 

I'm guessing that the baking is the same process as the corners (200-250 for about 2 minutes). Am I right?

 

If you spray from the inside, would it stay stay red and orange since (looking from outside) the tint is going to be behind the red/orange? When I sprayed the orange signal on my BD, I thought about that too and decided to spray the outside instead.

 

I'm not too fond of the idea of taking the tails apart by baking them. I like the idea of spraying the outside better.

Does anyone have a good product recommendation and where to get it? Preferably spray on.