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If you dont know what I mean by headlight designs, I am talking about when
people use masking tape or custom made vinyl shapes from a car graphics
store and put them on the headlights. For example, you could use two
perfectly cut vinyl circles about 7 cm apart from each other on each
headlight. After they put the masking tape or vinyl on the headlights, they
paint the headlight and once the paint is dry, pull off the vinyl or
masking tape revealing the non painted areas where the vinyl or masking
tape was. The rest of the headlight is painted leaving only the spots open
where you placed the vinyl or masking tape. If you used two perfectly cut
vinyl circles, you will have a headlight that looks like a bmw headlight
with two beams coming through each open space where the vinyl or masking
tape was. The rest will be the painted part where no light comes through. I
have tried this using krylon paint for plastic but this ended up bubbling
because of the heat. I am not sure if it was because of the headlight heat
or the heat from the sun beating down on them. It bubbled at the top area
above the design, but i am not sure what caused it (either the sun or the
heat in the headlight rising up). Maybe you guys have ideas on why that
happened.
My second point is , i am going to be painting a design on my signal lights
which are separate from my headlights so i have a totally clean slate to
work with. I need some good paints that are high heat so they can withstand
heat from the lights and also the blazing heat from the sun (also my car is
black so i will be using black paint and black is known to get a lot hotter
than other colours because it absorbs the sun unlike white which reflects
it). It needs to be able to stick well to plastic and not flake off from
extreme hots (from the sun [it gets very hot in the summer]) or colds from
the temperature in the winter here in canada or for any other reason..
Please give me some answers.. thanks :)
h3llfir3
