Made my own rear tail light chrome trim.
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Used some wheel well flexible chrome trim until a one piece unit is available. What do you think? Like or don't like? I think it balances good with the rear emblem. Costs me $13.89 for 18 feet which I could do it probably 3 times.
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Originally posted by kevinv-6@June 13, 2005, 3:24 PM
great job!!! cut the other pieces to fit some other cars and sell them on e-bay!!
great job!!! cut the other pieces to fit some other cars and sell them on e-bay!!
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Looks great! You better dump that license plate frame, though.....
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Originally posted by groupset@June 13, 2005, 4:03 PM
Looks great! You better dump that license plate frame, though.....
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You did a good job, just not a big fan of the chrome mouldings around the tail lights. If I were not so lazy and confident I could do a nice job I'd like to paint them flat black in the grooves for added contrast.
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Originally posted by pstu102727@June 13, 2005, 5:32 PM
Where do you buy this chrome molding? And what exactly is it called if i went to look for it?... Thanks for the help..
Where do you buy this chrome molding? And what exactly is it called if i went to look for it?... Thanks for the help..
I bought it at Oreily's auto parts store. They have it at just about all of them. It is chrome wheel well molding for cars and trucks.
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or you can get the exact same thing precut to do one car on ebay for like $50...I should've sold my left overs on ebay....didnt know people would actually spend that much on it.....I like the trim by the way....did it to mine one day when I was bored (looks awesome on black) and then when I was all done I took some pics, left the car in the garage for the night went to a baseball game and yanked them off the next morning...I just wanted to get an idea of what a bezel would look like before commishining someone to make one.
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Originally posted by rrobello@June 14, 2005, 2:07 PM
or you can get the exact same thing precut to do one car on ebay for like $50...I should've sold my left overs on ebay....didnt know people would actually spend that much on it.....I like the trim by the way....did it to mine one day when I was bored (looks awesome on black) and then when I was all done I took some pics, left the car in the garage for the night went to a baseball game and yanked them off the next morning...I just wanted to get an idea of what a bezel would look like before commishining someone to make one.
or you can get the exact same thing precut to do one car on ebay for like $50...I should've sold my left overs on ebay....didnt know people would actually spend that much on it.....I like the trim by the way....did it to mine one day when I was bored (looks awesome on black) and then when I was all done I took some pics, left the car in the garage for the night went to a baseball game and yanked them off the next morning...I just wanted to get an idea of what a bezel would look like before commishining someone to make one.
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Originally posted by rrobello@June 14, 2005, 11:23 PM
that should be sharp....would you be interested in the bezels when I get them done?
that should be sharp....would you be interested in the bezels when I get them done?
Yes please keep me informed.
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Originally posted by stangscuba98a@June 14, 2005, 7:22 AM
Used some wheel well flexible chrome trim until a one piece unit is available. What do you think? Like or don't like? I think it balances good with the rear emblem. Costs me $13.89 for 18 feet which I could do it probably 3 times.
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Used some wheel well flexible chrome trim until a one piece unit is available. What do you think? Like or don't like? I think it balances good with the rear emblem. Costs me $13.89 for 18 feet which I could do it probably 3 times.
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I would be interested in a black bezel. I did the same thing with a black kit from fleabay. You can see where the pieces come together on the kits too.
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Originally posted by Blk'05@June 15, 2005, 3:22 AM
Looks pretty good. My only gripe with it is the lower corners where you can see the pieces coming together. Other than that it looks sharp!![Thumb](https://themustangsource.com/forums/images/smilies/thumb.gif)
Looks pretty good. My only gripe with it is the lower corners where you can see the pieces coming together. Other than that it looks sharp!
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I originally mitered the corners so you could not tell that much but it is too sharp a corner to get wash rags hung on and not much surface area to stick when you cut the corners on an angle.
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when I did mine...I cut them at an angle and made sure that the corners fit together perfectly while it was still off the car and when it went on they ran together real tight and you could only see a thin diaganol line, but it looked as though they were designed that way. And because I was really bored I decided to see if I could make them look flawless so I used some bondo to fill in all the little cracks where the pieces meet and then painted the filled in lines with some chrome model paint from Testors, it didnt match 100% but it was close and you had to look harder at it to notice then you did when looking at the spaces remaining in it. But that was more effort than it was worth, since they were on the car and you have to be really careful with both the bondo and the paint to make sure you dont get any on the car, I put a soft cloth towel on the bumper.
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