Direct application of car masking tape should be limited to the areas that can't be covered with masking paper or films. Headlights and taillights, rearview mirrors, sunroofs, door edges and jambs, rubber trims, and so on, can be taped when we have to paint around them. Every layer of the tape – the backing, the primer, the adhesive and the backing – has been carefully designed and developed for professional auto painting in any garage.