The other day my friend and I took apart my headlights to black them out. And this is what we ended up with.

The xD stock
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1517.jpg

We took off the front bumper.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1523.jpg

Headlight off xD
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1518.jpg

Headlight taken apart.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1520.jpg

Shot of the headlight
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1519.jpg

Shot of the lens
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1521.jpg

Lens taken apart
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1522.jpg

What we did was just paint the top of the headlight.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1524.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1525.jpg

On the car
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1526.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1527.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1534.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1533.jpg

Lights on
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1532.jpg

Stock pic
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/DSC00545.jpg

Blackouted pic
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1531.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1528.jpg

Well I hope you like it. If you have any question I know you will just ask :P

Oh hey you did it! How hard is it to crack those puppies open? I've looked at mine to do something similiar (you know my idea) but it looks tough.

It wasen't that hard. Just take off the wire harness and one screw on the back and pop them in the oven.

you painted them? with what? pardon my ignorance...

Oh hey you did it! How hard is it to crack those puppies open? I've looked at mine to do something similiar (you know my idea) but it looks tough.

Looks like they were baked open. Painted with your run of the mill smoking spraypaint.

It looks good man, nice work. If anything I wish it were darker though.
I love the xD

Very nice look on a dark xD!

Could you describe the bumper cover removal a bit?

Oh I know they're baked open, just that they look much harder to crack open than say xB1 and some of the tCs.

As far as removing the bumper on the front, zoltiz wrote up a DIY on installing the LED fogs and he explains how to get the bumper off in there.

Not bad, although, I would've removed the amber (if that's possible on the D)

Not bad, although, I would've removed the amber (if that's possible on the D)

DOT requires a side reflector..that's what that ugly piece of bike reflector in there does. I plan on putting something on my quarter panels and removing the amber the same day I paint some eyelids on them if it's possible to take them out.

very nice ima have to do this except maybe paint match

I didn't fully black them out because I was trynig to get them dark enough to kind of match the paint. We used some semi black smoked spray paint from the local hobbie shop, two full cans. It took a lil bit t to mask off and to dry, but it came out just the way that I wanted them too. 400 degrees F for about 8 to 9 mins to take them apart and then 4 mins at the same temp to put them back together. I hope you all can do this with your own style and color and if you have any questiosn please hit me up.

Not bad, although, I would've removed the amber (if that's possible on the D)

DOT requires a side reflector..that's what that ugly piece of bike reflector in there does.Oh, I know, but that's never stopped anyone before.

Looks nice! I have done this in the past on a Lancer... not sure how different the xD is, but the high temps of the oven made me nervous, so i baked them at 250 for about 7 min, and was able to pull them apart just fine.

Yeah true, but a lot of cars have reflectors on the front quarter panels.

I know the issue with the reflector, but my car is going to be a cop attention grabber once my kit gets put on at 9am Monday and then my wheels and exhaust this week or two and I didn't want to give them another reason to mess with me, you can still see the reflector and being that I didn't completly black them out, you get a little glare from the reflector and the glossy smoked paint on the reflector.... so the cops should leave it alone. But thats the route that I decided to go.

not bad.

Bat™

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/mjramos85/xD/IMG_1522.jpg


Mario, I just had a question. Why do you have a Barbie blanket Playboy???? lol. You and Shrek did a good job on that piece G.

A better question is why Shrek has a Barbie blanket when he has no sisters...if it was mine I could atleast say that I have a 10 year old sister, but he has no excuse...lol

Not bad, although, I would've removed the amber (if that's possible on the D)

DOT requires a side reflector..that's what that ugly piece of bike reflector in there does.Oh, I know, but that's never stopped anyone before.

Has anyone ever got pulled over for this?

looks good

I have never got pulled over myself for this...knock on wood, but I have heard that some cops are real sticklers on vehical codes, but as long as you are driving cool then they have no real reason to pull you over to get a good enough look at the headlights to write a ticked up for this! Just play it smart and be a good driver..lol

that looks perfect dude! what specific kind of paint did you use? coz i want to do it to mine too.. i like it gloss or jet black.

that looks perfect dude! what specific kind of paint did you use? coz i want to do it to mine too.. i like it gloss or jet black.

you could use any type of paint. what alot of people use is a plastic paint

the paint that I used was Tamaya plastic paint and I used the smoked color... hope that this help and best of luck on you mod.

Tamiya plastic paint, you can get it from towerhobbies.com as a last resort, or a local hobby shop.. (LHS)

Has anyone ever got pulled over for this?

No one I know of.

i just did this to my rs 2.0, i love it! I didn't blacken the blinkers though. I feel it looks more clean, I'm not a fan of the faded orange when lit. (IMO) but i seriously think all xD headlights should be black instead of the stupid mirror finish, I'll upload pics asap

i just did this to my rs 2.0, i love it! I didn't blacken the blinkers though. I feel it looks more clean, I'm not a fan of the faded orange when lit. (IMO) but i seriously think all xD headlights should be black instead of the stupid mirror finish, I'll upload pics asap

Nice I want to see some pics
This is kind of funny that this post comes back up cause I got to do this to my brothers xd he just bought

So do you just bake in regular oven? And you bake once the headlight lens is painted and again when put together?

then you bake it again to heat up the glue

What glue?