Red Light Tints

[Curtis]

So not all that technical, but hey

Every car I've had has received the all red rear treatment, both vinyl and spray paint. On every car the red has faded to pink, or gone completely clear after 6 months, tint or paint, its the same. Do any of you guys have any suggestions as to how I can prevent this, or even link me to a more hard wearing product that you've used. Other colours, blacks, yellows etc... seem to be fine from what I've used, its always the red that seems to let me down :/

Pictures for effect, my poor attempt at vinyl wrapping

[incarsolutions]

tint spray then laquer. job done. we've done it for customers for years and never had a problem

[bigfella2]

I used lamin-X on the rear of my caddy van for must be four years plus. Looks exactly same as when I applied it.

[dude]

You need to heat the vinyl, and spray a little soap water under it.

[Curtis]

See I did the spray and lacquer on one of my older cars, still faded like a curse word. Looking into it, science explains all! The way colours absorb all other wavelengths of light, turns out, blue, and ultimately UV light contains more energy than light towards the red/IR end of the spectrum. As a result, reds tend to fade a lot faster in all media compared to other colours. It can be solved using a decent UV protect lacquer

[generaldogsbody]

Aug 5, 2014 12:34:56 GMT incarsolutions said:

tint spray then laquer. job done. we've done it for customers for years and never had a problem

Would this be the same when "smoking" rear lights? Thanks

[incarsolutions]

Aug 5, 2014 17:59:10 GMT generaldogsbody said:

Aug 5, 2014 12:34:56 GMT incarsolutions said:

tint spray then laquer. job done. we've done it for customers for years and never had a problem

Would this be the same when "smoking" rear lights? Thanks

It sure is.

[generaldogsbody]

Thanks for the info. Now, is there a trick to getting light tint (that's from a can) to "sit" right on a rear light? And how do you know how much to put on? (With regards to the light getting through etc)