A buddy of mine painted his housings and doesn't like them anymore. Can you buy a paint that looks like the original chrome/reflective paint stuff they put on there? He wants to go back to just straight silver. Has anyone ever tried to 'undo' their painted housings like that?

 

I know that there is such a thing as "chrome" spray paint. Look for it in your local hardward/automotive store. Most likely that Duplicolor makes it.

 

hes better off tradin someone for a set of stockers, rather then goin thru the trouble of repaintin em.

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werd...or just look in the 4 sale forums and people always got them up there and they are pretty cheap

 

Tried.. can't. No one ever wants to sell, and when they do they want ridiculous amounts of $$$. Going to have to paint them.

 

paint thinner, aircraft remover (depending on the material; will eat through all paint)

 

too bad it'll eat through the cheesey "chrome" layer and straight into the plastic... paint thinner and plastic just make sloppy mess...

 

There's never a paint that comes out 'chrome', you can be close to it, but never have the reflectiveness (word?) to the chrome. Try to use thinner, but mix it- 1 part Thinner, 1 part rubbing alcohol. I can't garuntee that it won't strip the chrome, but it's worth a shot... I'm sure you can pick up a used set of headlamps though.

 

yea the autozone i go to has a chrome paint made by dupli-color

i think it was a 3 step paint. or was it the color shifting chameleon paint that was a 3 step paint. heck they even have a camoglougue paint if u want.

now if only they made a transparent tint spray for my tailights . . .

 

I know that Testors (Hobby Paint) has them, but the one that I'm looking for is by SEM's. I'd rather use that for tinting than the Testors.