I got the idea to smoke the brake light on my Sportsman today, had a free after noon so I went at it. Looks pretty good, and was a fun project.

Removed the lens, cleaned it in a little simple green, dried and used VHT Niteshade smoking spray, did about 5 light layers with 15 - 30 minute intervals, the darkness started to appear around the 4th and 5th layer. After letting it dry for a final 30 minutes I cleaned it with Meguiars Ultimate Compound, then some Meguiars PlastX, and polished it twice with Meguiars Deep Crystal polish, and I ended it with two layers of Meguiars gold class wax.

Since its not a car, i'm not worried about it being too dark. I think it came out very very well. Heres some photos.





Un-smoked


This was after the 4th layer


5th layer, compounded, plastX, polished and waxed, all ready to go.


Re-installed.


Brake Light, which still shines through quite well.

 

Nice job, looks very good. And not something you're gonna see on many atv's.

-J

 

Thanks. I really like it. Its all glossy black until the lights on.