Amber Side Lights + Indicators on the Cheap Boya

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Amber Side Lights + Indicators on the Cheap Boya

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As Above got boerd last night and thought i'd find a brush and get my £3.20 glass staining paint out

after a few coats and left over night to dry tryed them on to see what like
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not all bad for 3.20 :)

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Where can I buy some of that paint?
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This is all in the guides section ;)
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sake's heres me thinking i'm good :( was orig going to use the glass staining paint in laqure but thought , meh, jsut brush it on

i got mines off amazon for 180 and worked out 3.20 deliverd :)
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Its good though, looks really good, post the pics up in the How-To :top:
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walsh123 wrote:Hobby craft is where i got mine

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Is it ok with having the side lights orange ? I've always wanted to do this but i dont know how legal it is :?
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i was just going to drill into the headlight its self and put a sidelight in there and have 2 inicators by wireoing up the old sidelight unit to the indicator wireing harness
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skull-candy18 wrote:Is it ok with having the side lights orange ? I've always wanted to do this but i dont know how legal it is :?
You can have orange side lights, our old concerto passed its MOT with them with no advisories :top:
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I suppose cars like Volvos have the orange sidelights so it shouldnt be a problem
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I suppose cars like Volvos have the orange sidelights so it shouldnt be a problem
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I failed an MOT once for amber/orange sidelights

you can also get the paint on ebay
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