Alright, my fears have been put to rest, I'm definitely getting G4 when it's available...
Thanks for the response, Mr. Veil Guy...I just love it when manufacturers are in touch and in tune with their customers. Bravo!
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Alright, my fears have been put to rest, I'm definitely getting G4 when it's available...
Thanks for the response, Mr. Veil Guy...I just love it when manufacturers are in touch and in tune with their customers. Bravo!
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x2. I cant wait to stealth out my vehicle!Quote:
Originally Posted by focuzd1
Does anyone have any recommendations for a headlight cleaner? My headlights are fogged on the outside, and are plastic. I want to get them all nice and clean before I apply veil.
Also, Does anyone have a recommendation for a type of paint to paint over my chrome with?
Sounds like a major part of Veil working decently is tinting the headlights.
Basically meaning no invisible version will ever exist, means I'll never be buying it.
Wet sand them. Wet them, and sand them first with 1000 grit, then with 1500 grit, all while keeping the lights wet. Get some rubbing compound and with a terry cloth, rub the lights for a while. I then put some PlasticX to help revitalize the plastic a bit. Then, apply some car wax to seal everything up (obviously take it off when it's dry. :lol: )Quote:
Originally Posted by Ovencleaner
Not quite.Quote:
Originally Posted by noTe
It's been shown by a fellow member here that although "tinting" the headlights, via aftermarket headlight covers, *will* work to reduce (and even to eliminate) LIDAR return from this area, the tint needs to be near-opaque, at a level which is clearly going to arouse unwanted enforcement notice.
Yes, tinting will help - but to do the same as VEIL, you'll need near-opacity, when you go with simple tinting.
how would i preorder a can of the G4?
As ELVATO said, wetsanding is the gold standard for fixing fogged plastic headlights.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ovencleaner
For painting chrome, you want to get a can of Duplicolor auto paint and a can of Duplicolor auto clearcoat. Clean, scuff, paint 3-4 coats color and 2-3 coats clear.
I wonder how much the veil will diffuse the head lights at night...
My main concern is application of the product without runs or streaks. I went through half a can of my Veil before I had something I felt I could live with (which failed...see below). I ended up using a poly foam brush to achieve that.
I have a 350Z and the headlights are quite narrow and slope gently down towards the front, so you can't run a brush across the top of the headlight and allow it to run into the path of your next brush stroke and so on like it shows in the video demonstration. I had to apply vertical brush strokes and pray that the coating leveled out as it dried. It never did end up without streaks completely. It seems like Veil is easiest to apply to long, rectangular vertical headlights like those shown on the BMW in the link of this thread.
I also tested my Veil with a police radar and didn't get any protection, so I'm assuming I don't have it on thick enough. This would be logical since what I did put on was just enough without having it run down all over the lower part of the car.
My point here is to ask if you have improved the viscosity of Veil so you can apply it in one even coat without any runs or streaks (let me repeat...no runs or streaks), and have it level to a consistent coat that looks like it was sprayed on once it's dry? Or will this be another case of getting the "knack" of how best to apply it.
Will you be posting a video demonstrating its application properties to prove that it will not run or streak when applied by the average customer (not a pro like yourself)? I know you want to sell Veil but in the end it's the consumer who takes the risk. Please appreciate my candor.
Thanks
Editted to add:
Here's the link to a thread showing my car:
http://www.radardetector.net/viewtop...445&highlight=
With the older Veil, it SHOULD run down onto the car, you should expect that and mask off the area around your headlights. In fact, with enough masking, you should be able to simply make clean, even strokes across the headlight and not worry about getting Veil all over the surrounding area.
Of course, my nearly-rectangular headlights are just about ideal, so I have very little trouble with this...