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Old Jul 1, 2008 | 07:38 PM
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Default Headlight/Taillight tint.

whats your experience with both?
any one get a cheap kit on ebay?
got any good pics? hows it hold up?
how much did you pay if you had yours installed?

thanks.
Old Jul 5, 2008 | 12:00 AM
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Old Jul 5, 2008 | 12:17 AM
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Old Jul 5, 2008 | 01:28 AM
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Go to the website he has ( the blue batmobile one) and I have seen pics on there. For tailights, I just mixed some black sand pearl with a clear coat and sprayed over them a few times. Can't see the signals during the day too well, but at night you can see them just fine. Please forgive the dirty car picture, it rains almost every day here.


Old Jul 13, 2008 | 03:50 PM
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!!! Bdiddy that is TIGHT!!
Old Jul 13, 2008 | 04:42 PM
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i used a spray tint that i got from a hobby shop then sprayed clear coat over it.
Old Jul 13, 2008 | 06:05 PM
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Cool, do the headlamps match?
Old Jul 13, 2008 | 11:28 PM
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i didn't smoke them completely like the back. i baked them and painted the chrome black and smoke the turn signal.

Old Jul 14, 2008 | 02:42 AM
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Oh That would look bad ___ if it werent for the black hood you have, you know, having the head lamps blacked out like the tails.

Hey, whats with the wheel gap in the front?
Old Jul 14, 2008 | 04:32 PM
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i had the car jacked up for something. either oil change or something else
Old Jul 25, 2008 | 03:07 AM
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I like it! Looks good,
Old Jul 25, 2008 | 03:32 AM
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The only problem with painting the inside of the headlights is that you lose that factory seal and get hazing like you see in that picture a couple posts above this.
Old Jul 25, 2008 | 04:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Bdiddy
The only problem with painting the inside of the headlights is that you lose that factory seal and get hazing like you see in that picture a couple posts above this.
what are you talking about?! i dont have a hazing problem. plus when you bake the headlights you reseal it.
Old Jul 25, 2008 | 04:50 AM
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I know you re seal them after baking, but you lose that initial factory seal and setting up for possible hazing issues. That picture looks hazy, and in person your lights looked hazy to me.
Old Jul 27, 2008 | 02:34 PM
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This is the best picture i could find that as already on photbucket. I know the trunk is open and you cant get the whole ides of the tint, but at least you can gte an idea of what it looks like with sticker tint. This isn't sprayed on its essentially a see-through sticker that can be removed if i ever get tired of it.
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Hah, he's clearly fuggin with you. Note the wink. ;)
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http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...xA%20Overlays/

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