Taping up your lights.

[groucho]

Doing a trackday at Castle Combe on the 24th. What do you lads tape your lights up with that won't take the paint off?

Cheers [pic]http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/graucho.gif[/pic]

[Missedtheapexagn]

Masking tape is usually OK. Quite a few people with expensive motors doing airfields (or known gritty tracks) will do the entire fronts of their cars and sticky-out bits like wheel arches with clear sticky-backed plastic.

Personally I like strapping sickly-smiling estate agents spreadeagled to the bonnet - face forward - so they pick up all the flies in their teeth.

Whichever way, there's usually some sort of residue that'll need cleaning off.

[groucho]

Cheers, don't like estate agents then.

[ninjadave]

The last few times I've been there to see / take part in track days they don't seem to care if you tape up or not - I didn't, sa didn't a lot of others and we were all fine.

If you're worried about you lights though, then I've seen most people use siver duct/gaffer tape. Personally I think I'd use something like thick masking tape to try and keep some paint on the car after I pulled it off.

[Missedtheapexagn]

Rare to get a lamp cracked on a proper circuit, but rare not to at an airfield circuit. Chain estate agent's hands over the lights.

[bad_roo]

Email Peter Kenyon and ask if he can advise you on 'taping up'.

[trackdemon]

bad_roo said:

Email Peter Kenyon and ask if he can advise you on 'taping up'.

LOL, very good

[groucho]

I sense a bit of humour here. Am I missing something?

[groucho]

I'm just asking because it says on the forms that the TVR car club sent me, "Don't forget to tape up your lights". Is this personal choice then and not mandatory?

[missedtheapexagn]

Not usually mandatory, more often advisory. Lower slung cars tend to get more stone damage.

>> Edited by missedtheapexagn on Tuesday 14th June 17:25