shaving the trunk-lights and frenched licence plate DIY
 

i want to shave the trunk lights and french my licence plate, does anyone have a how to, me and a buddy were just going to tackle it and see how it went, hes done a few on mini trucks

from what i ready up just welk thin sheet metal over the light spot, weld the playe box in a 45 degree angle and bodyfill over the metal.

i just wanna get it right.

pretty much got it, post pics sounds interesting...

im gonna start on it tomo if someone wants me to write up a how to?

where are you going to french the plate? I'm interested in that. I've done a few tailgates but I dont see much available room on the trunklid...and I like my tails.. but a writeup would be nice

im going to take the stock plate tray off and weld an autoloc box in at a 45 degree angle parallel to the left side trunk light

take it to a professional autobody isnt something u can accomplish with a walkthrough. ive been in skool for AB for a year and i see this all the time. people try to do it themselves and end up paying double to get their mess fixed and get the job done right.

True this man.. When I was at school cars would come in the shop all the time messed up. It was always s10's no joke haha

is it bad that a s10 is the first frenched plate me and a friend did a few years back? we managed to get it done and it didn't look half bad..

Nothing wrong with that

just because your buddy has done a few on some trucks doesnt make him a pro or make what you want to do any easier

i see this ending in................FAIL

me too sadly...hell if he does it good job, but these alero trunks dont leave much room for error...

haha there you are... I was asking to myself how long before bdy post about it !! lol

BTW I did mine in fiberglass... it still hasn't cracked....
I hope that your project turn out good, Good Luck

imma wing it, i have 3 trunk lids so i dont have much to loose, cause ill prolly pay close to 300 at a shop

cant be that hard, only way to learn is do

i see this ending in a car looking shitty.

Practice on the extra lid ;)

any progress?

ignore others your making the right step

Glad u made it to the site remember 3 seperate pieces of metal for the trunk to get shaped right! And the glass yeah may last a little longer if don't have subs when I did it all in foam and glass and cracked after a couple months. Then did it with metal but one solid piece and ended up useing alot of fillar and kitty hair to shape it right. Was fine heavy bit didn't crack till trunk got dented like no other.

any progress