How To: restore door-handle courtesy lights

[Racinfan83]

Yes that is a great write up!

I wonder if you could tape the clear lens and spray it black with the "Fusion" paint for plastics instead of the model paint??

[GTOger]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Sometimes it's the little things that can make a big difference! You know what it's like to show up in a 20+ year old car and someone asks "hey, what year is that?" and they don't believe your answer! Details like this really help with that.

Originally Posted by Racinfan83

I wonder if you could tape the clear lens and spray it black with the "Fusion" paint for plastics instead of the model paint??

I'm sure that you could. Quite honestly, you could use regular spray paint and the end result would probably look just fine. For whatever reason, I felt that brushing the paint on would work out a little better in my case. Using the brush lets you get down deep into some of those cracks without having to spray it on real thick. It's just such a small piece, and my skills are not expert.

Oh, and thanks HAWAIIZR-1 for the tip on the LED's. Yes, I think I will surely need to get some. I'm just a bit confused on which ones to get. Also, the color temperature is important. I wouldn't mind it being a bit brighter-white, but if it gets into the bluish-white look, to me that just doesn't fit in the interior of the car. My leanings tend to be more along the lines of "looks factory" or "looks like it could have been factory". So a neutral white color on the LEDs will be important to me.

[HAWAIIZR-1]

Originally Posted by GTOger

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Sometimes it's the little things that can make a big difference! You know what it's like to show up in a 20+ year old car and someone asks "hey, what year is that?" and they don't believe your answer! Details like this really help with that.



I'm sure that you could. Quite honestly, you could use regular spray paint and the end result would probably look just fine. For whatever reason, I felt that brushing the paint on would work out a little better in my case. Using the brush lets you get down deep into some of those cracks without having to spray it on real thick. It's just such a small piece, and my skills are not expert.

Oh, and thanks HAWAIIZR-1 for the tip on the LED's. Yes, I think I will surely need to get some. I'm just a bit confused on which ones to get. Also, the color temperature is important. I wouldn't mind it being a bit brighter-white, but if it gets into the bluish-white look, to me that just doesn't fit in the interior of the car. My leanings tend to be more along the lines of "looks factory" or "looks like it could have been factory". So a neutral white color on the LEDs will be important to me.

I understand what you mean. I jumped in on the deal that GC set up and I'm sure Yosi will still honor the discount as he did for me long after it closed. http://www.zr1.net/forum/showthread....t=led+interior

I will double check if it is bluish-white or not and you might have to just stick with stock bulbs then or see if that style has a regular white bulb in LED. I know I could have saved some money just going on Ebay etc. and searching, but made it easy to just get all the bulbs that fit. I only had to buy the console and glove box separately. It is a world of difference with the LED bulbs, but it won't be "factory" look. Best wishes and thanks again for the tips to restore; that looks and sounds great.

[Racinfan83]

I haven't been able to get that link to work for 3 days now.... Not the one to the thread - the one to "corvette hid mods" IN that thread. Searched on Google too and it still wouldn't work...