Third brakelight restoration
 

Alright, so as you all know the 3rd brakelight on our cars get fucked up by sunlight, especially if the trunk doesn't have a wing, or is a 99-00 model with the gay ducktail wing that isn't mounted far enough to the back.

My brakelight was horrible, I didn't want it perfect, but I wanted it better.
So I start with this
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First I taped off the paint around it, then started wet-sanding with 600 grit wet/dry sandpaper to get out the major scratches. After that I did the same with 1000 grit, and then 1200 grit. I would have gone up to 2000 but I didn't have any. After all of that I dried it all off and used some Meguiar's Plast-X on a microfiber applicator for about 15 minutes. Wiped off all of the excess and this is what I have now

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Now it's not perfect, you can still see some fine linear scratches from the 600 grit, it's probably better to start off with a higher grit (maybe 800) to prevent that, but I don't mind..it looks waaaaaaaaay better then it used to.

Great job looks alot better now.

looks good, i need to do that this spring to my head lights to.

Ima do that to mine too...thanks for the how-to Pcola.

Thanks and np guys

I like the "gay ducktail wing" better than the 01-04 wings. I'm moving mine back as soon as it gets nicer out.

hey pcola why did you have all the tape around the rear window and on the bummer?

polishing

Hes getting ready for a photoshoot after his FR500's and springs and such. haha.

Hahaha :D

Wynns products makes an AWESOME kit for headlights and at are shop we use them on the 3rd light also works great

looks good pcola!

Damn dude, i totally need to do that.

hell, my 3rd brake light actyually has finger marks on it from constantly grabbing it at the same spot to close it. lol

dang dude that came out great. Mine is totally screwed up beyond that repair, so I just painted the upper part of it.

Looks really good, I will have to try this method to my headlights coming up too.

I was wondering about the tape on the back glass and bumper/ ford emblem too, i was like whats up with that?