Styling eyebrows?

[maddogmorg]

well messing about on paint! and was messing about with light shapes and stuff and was wondering about opinions, legality and ways to do sort of like diagonal 'eyebrows' you might as well give opinions on the spotlights. but no matter how they look (good from some angles, not so good from others) the improvement in night driving is too good.

 

[Hellcat]

Eyebrows are pointless.

Reduces your light, and makes you look like every other corsa/nova/saxo...

Rally lights however... Think it needs another pair.

 

[maddogmorg]

i know usually they look rubbish but is there not a spray that'd just un-rectangularise the front lights?

glad you like the rally lights though. i don't think they were too bad for £16! just need to fit the 100w bulbs and change the fuses. really wasn't expecting you to like them. i tryed it on photoshop many times and could never decide whether i like them but when they were only £16 from the shop i just thought why not.

 

[bassy-alex]

I saw someone lightly tint around the edge of some lights once - just took the edge off of them slightly.

might be worth a go?

 

[Hellcat]

Probably because I have a thing for old rally cars

 

[sumplug]

If fitting Extra lights, dont forget to use a relay and the correct wire, as they take a lot of current.
Eyebrows are wrong imo, rally lights look retro cool.

Andy.

 

[maddogmorg]

thought i'd ask here as there's the pic above. what colour is my car? well apart from dark red, the proper name/code for the paint? isn't it marked somewhere on the car?

 

[spikey]

Your Tipo colour looks like metallic, so that would be shiraz red. If its not metallic its called rosso scurso, or dark red. Both use the same pigment except one is metallic, the other isn't.

 

[Hellcat]

Paint code sticker should be on the underside of the rear hatch door.

My bet is that it's ming red

 

[spikey]

Ming red was a Mk2 tipo colour.

 

[maddogmorg]

Spikey knows his stuff. it's Shiraz Red Metallic. funny how i've never noticed that sticker before, yet i've been trying to access the rear wiper motor for a while. though since it's glued together its not possible. hmmm..
to touch up this paint is it just a case of a paint pen thing or is it the lacquer etc?