head lights..painted - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

MASHCAM07 · 05-01-2008, 12:58 PM

So I see alot of people baking their head lights, and painting it black. has anyone thought of charging people for doing so? i am interested but do not want to do it myself.. not looking to pay alot of money i mean be reasonable here.. what would quotes look like for doing something like that.. any one local, in the bay area?

CamrySExxx · 05-01-2008, 03:39 PM

why not try it yourself? I actually took teh chance and did mine on the honda and turned out great. Just be careful of baking the headlights. I got carried away with a phone call and my one headlight melted a bit.. but i got a cheap oem one off ebay so its all good.

MASHCAM07 · 05-01-2008, 03:44 PM

because i dont want to screw up.. regardless of the directions in the DIY section

rydr1 · 05-01-2008, 04:50 PM

^ PM me im in 92024 incase you want to ship
OR you can wait till i make a DIY. i plan on taking my wife's camry lights apart again to paint the rings silver.

i plan on doing it this sunday or in 2 weeks.

this is also a heads up for people that want instructions with pics on doing these.

MASHCAM07 · 05-01-2008, 04:55 PM

this is my daily driver..so i cant afford to ship ahah

b0r1cha · 05-01-2008, 07:43 PM

about how long do u think taking apart the headlights, painting waiting for it to dry disassible reassemble etc.. basically black housing ur headlights from start to end. i just need a rough estimate so i can put some time aside on one of the weekends

ebumdude · 05-01-2008, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by b0r1cha

about how long do u think taking apart the headlights, painting waiting for it to dry disassible reassemble etc.. basically black housing ur headlights from start to end. i just need a rough estimate so i can put some time aside on one of the weekends

Ditto

rydr1 · 05-01-2008, 11:45 PM

to be frank with you guys the first time i did it it was on my tacoma. i took it slow so it took me 8hrs to let paint dry, bake, remove and reinstall.

after 5 sets of lights i have got it down to 3hrs for everything.

***Punks_Not_Dead5*** · 05-01-2008, 11:48 PM

practice practice practice!!

LNGasMan · 05-01-2008, 11:50 PM

First timers - 8 hours sounds about right. The baking part is quick. Took me about 8 hours to do my first HID retrofit.

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Originally Posted by rydr1

to be frank with you guys the first time i did it it was on my tacoma. i took it slow so it took me 8hrs to let paint dry, bake, remove and reinstall.

after 5 sets of lights i have got it down to 3hrs for everything.

MASHCAM07 · 05-02-2008, 12:21 AM

ne one down to trade? lol i dont want to wait.. so how about trading lights that are done with ones that arent.. and ill send u my stock ones?

JSM1284 · 05-02-2008, 11:43 AM

I can trade you your stock lights, plus $450 from you for a TSX retrofit. and I can paint the housings however you want...

geoff5093 · 05-02-2008, 12:24 PM

It took me about 6 hours to do everything on mine. I could have went faster, but I was doing other things in the mean time and since it was my first time, I did a lot of trial and error sort of things.