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Old Jan 22, 2005 | 04:13 PM
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Has anyone took apart the OEM headlights and Blacked them out?
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Do they sell the OEM headlights blacked out?
Any pics would be VERY helpful! NOT LOOKING FOR PROJECTORS ... Just Blacked out OEM headlights!
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Old Jan 22, 2005 | 04:45 PM
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Like this
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...7617169&idx=83
Old Jan 22, 2005 | 06:26 PM
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Link no good ...
Old Jan 22, 2005 | 06:40 PM
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Fix the link or repost please
Old Jan 22, 2005 | 09:03 PM
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Someone posted pictures of having done this on Scion Life. Not sure what you would put in for a search, but you might want to give that a try.
Old Jan 22, 2005 | 09:07 PM
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It's pretty easy.
Old Jan 22, 2005 | 10:19 PM
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Have you had any problems with water gtting in, or did you simply use entirely new caulking on them?
Old Jan 22, 2005 | 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by OMAC
Fix the link or repost please
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Old Jan 22, 2005 | 11:06 PM
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I like Max2k's ... Im NOT looking for projectors ... Max did you buy them or do it your self?
Old Jan 23, 2005 | 12:02 AM
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I did it myself. No problems with water so far.
Old Jan 23, 2005 | 12:02 AM
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he did them himself , lowbox also did some similar but he did more black with a small reflective circle.
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I think bBist completely blacked the flat parts on the top and bottom of the reflector. It was really intensely dark.
Old Jan 23, 2005 | 01:05 AM
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Does anyone know if they sell them blacked out?
Old Jan 23, 2005 | 01:47 AM
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nope , not that i've seen
Old Jan 23, 2005 | 03:37 AM
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Nope, but it's pretty easy to do. Just take the headlights off, take them apart (use an oven to heat up the glue, then pry the lens off), paint it, and put it back together.
Old Jan 23, 2005 | 04:14 AM
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Thanks for the 411
Old Jan 24, 2005 | 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Yoshi
Have you had any problems with water gtting in, or did you simply use entirely new caulking on them?
usually people have problems from not resealling the headlight. if you do it correctly then you shouldn't have problems with fogging
Old Jan 25, 2005 | 05:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Max2k
I think bBist completely blacked the flat parts on the top and bottom of the reflector. It was really intensely dark.
pics of these??
Old Jan 25, 2005 | 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Munch
Hey Munch...Your xB is hella clean!!! How do u like the projectors???
Old Feb 12, 2005 | 05:02 PM
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You guys do know that the silver helps reflect your headlights beam right? Oh well style over function



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