tarafied1
Well-Known Member
My wife and I gave our 99 GT to our son who is in college. He has also the 69 Mach 1 but we wanted him to focus on school so the Mach 1 is on back burner. Anyway, he works part time at Advance Auto so he has gas money and other expenses covered.
But he still wants to personalize the 99 to make it his own. So anyway, he bought some export/Cobra tail lights on eBay. He likes them just because they are different. They have the amber turn signal on a separate circuit. They are fairly rare and not repopped so h they can bring a lot on eBay.
He found a set that were cheap. They look like they came from a car that was under water!
In order to fix them up we baked them at 230 degrees F. Tried to split them open. Took a while to get them to come apart but then we cleaned up the inside and switched the lense to the original housing. I had to make the light socket in the original because it didn't have an extra bulb for turn signal. Then we used sealer to "glue" or bond it back together. It has to sit 24 hours. I hope it works.
They were dark and had moisture in them. You can see once we got them apart, the chrome plating on the plastic was almost all gone versus the original.
But he still wants to personalize the 99 to make it his own. So anyway, he bought some export/Cobra tail lights on eBay. He likes them just because they are different. They have the amber turn signal on a separate circuit. They are fairly rare and not repopped so h they can bring a lot on eBay.
He found a set that were cheap. They look like they came from a car that was under water!
In order to fix them up we baked them at 230 degrees F. Tried to split them open. Took a while to get them to come apart but then we cleaned up the inside and switched the lense to the original housing. I had to make the light socket in the original because it didn't have an extra bulb for turn signal. Then we used sealer to "glue" or bond it back together. It has to sit 24 hours. I hope it works.
They were dark and had moisture in them. You can see once we got them apart, the chrome plating on the plastic was almost all gone versus the original.
