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jspec_racing · 08-10-2005, 10:24 AM

i've just bought myself a set of headlights to replace the broken ones i have in my car and i was thinking about prying my new headlights open smoking it with a clear gray paint. has anyone did what i'm going to do coz i don't want to mess up.

skewe · 08-10-2005, 01:49 PM

why not do it on ur old one as a test

could be done.

lucanhookup · 08-10-2005, 02:34 PM

yea i painted my housing black but later on im going to open them again and paint everything inside black. test on ur old ones before u do anything to ur new ones. i got a extra headlight in my room that i painted everything inside black and i got ride of that point that sticks out from the headlight.

HoboJoe · 08-10-2005, 03:49 PM

^What do those points on the outside of the headlight do? I was just curious.

DrewsCam · 08-10-2005, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by HoboJoe

^What do those points on the outside of the headlight do? I was just curious.

they are there to make the mold of the light

HoboJoe · 08-11-2005, 04:18 AM

Now doesn't smoking the headlights cut down the visibilty? And if so. how much?

CDub LXi · 08-11-2005, 07:32 AM

As long as you smoke the inside and don't smoke the reflector it isn't noticeable.

terrastrife · 08-11-2005, 08:46 AM

dont touch lense or silver shineybits an dyoure fine -- doesn tleave too much left to paint hey? :P

Bhavesh · 08-11-2005, 11:24 PM

You can also go to your local hobby shop and buy a spray-on tint for model cars. The brand is "Testor", and it costs ~$5/can.

lucanhookup · 08-11-2005, 11:36 PM

wait do u want to tint the lense or the inside of the headlights?

azntony85 · 08-12-2005, 12:07 AM

I have an 03 camry... I smoked the rear taillights at the clear area. For me, California state vehicle makes u have whatever light visible for at least 300 feet. So if ur lights are visible for 300 ft in Ca. u should be good. dunno about other states but give or take 300 ft.

FYI: I highly recommend puttin about 5-7 coats of the tint spray.... and then 5 coats of clear laquer. thats what i did.... how do u post a pic? ill post it

jspec_racing · 08-12-2005, 12:30 AM

i was thinking about getting a clear smoke spray paint and lay the reflective portion of the headlights. i guess i could get brighter headlight bulbs to compensate for the shade. i was thinking about getting silverstars anyway.

Trdkamuri510 · 08-12-2005, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by lucanhookup

yea i painted my housing black but later on im going to open them again and paint everything inside black. test on ur old ones before u do anything to ur new ones. i got a extra headlight in my room that i painted everything inside black and i got ride of that point that sticks out from the headlight.

NOOOOOO!!!! unless u get projectors, do not do this, the light bulb needs refraction to make it shine.. you will output NO LIGHT whatsoever if you do the whole housing....

Bhavesh · 08-12-2005, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by lucanhookup

wait do u want to tint the lense or the inside of the headlights?

The lens.

Bhavesh · 08-12-2005, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by azntony85

how do u post a pic? ill post it

1.) Find a place to upload the pics, so they're hosted on the internet. Your internet service provider may offer web space, colleges/universities do, and so do various internet companies (ie. photobucket, webshots, yahoo photos, etc.).
2.) Upload the photos using the website's instructions, or a file-transfer program.
3.) Open the photo on the internet, right click it, select "copy image location"
4.) Using image tags, post the link to the photo in the reply box.
ex:
For a photo I loaded at http://photos.yahoo.com/bGuy216/camryrules.jpg, I would use the image tags, (img)http://photos.yahoo.com/bGuy216/camryrules.jpg(/img). But be sure to replace the parentheses () with brackets [], because image tags are defined by brackets, not parentheses.