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Old 11-23-2011, 03:06 AM
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Default Anyone painted their headlights?

Has anyone ever tried baking their brand new headlights and blacking the inside out yet?

Idk how it would look with the tc but i've seen some other cars and they look pretty good.
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I'm pretty sure they are already as blacked out as they can be. The only think left to black out would be the blinker housing and the high beam housing...both of which should be left as they are to maintain functionality of those lights...
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Maybe a local shop could tint your housing with a creative design to allow light out but look black everywhere else..
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Old 11-23-2011, 04:20 AM
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Baking headlights are easy....I did mine!..i got the 1st Gen though
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Old 11-23-2011, 04:22 AM
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hm...i actually never noticed that they were partially blacked out!
it would be nice to black out everything else too. Wonder if its possible to do that but keep functionality still
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just do a projector retro fit then you can black out everything.
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projector blinkers and parking lights too? Unless you retrofit those with projectors as well it ain't gonna happen.
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Old 11-23-2011, 05:04 PM
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Why would you retrofit projectors into a housing that already has projectors in them?
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For quad bi-xenon. Overkill i know but people do it.
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Blackout the entire exterior housing except the holes for main and bright headlights..
I thought the goal was to get all black..
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a little late here but i did about 2 years ago
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i didn't black out my housing but I baked my headlights and painted my side marker to match my car =) I actually used a heat gun instead of the oven and works just as well
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dang....I just noticed how late this thread was -__- lol
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