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Old 02-14-2005, 10:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Smoked out headlights??

I've been looking at this site for about an hour and I haven't found any concrete info on this. I'm new so I really don't know where to look yet. I've been working on my explorer(here's a little pic for about a year then had to give it up(to the wife), but I got a 04 graphite grey camry Le to smooth things over .

With the explorer I wanted the headlights as bright & clear as possible to contrast the car, now I want to go with dark headlights on the camry. Is there a tutorial floating around here or some info one of you guys can share?

Also what are some other things I should start thinking about to set my camry apart from all the other zillion in my neighborhood?


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Old 02-14-2005, 11:10 PM   #2 (permalink)
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There was a thread just a few days about this. Not a tutorial, but about products and a few steps you should take. Search for smoked tail lights.
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Thnx for the response, It still no dice. someone mentioned something about baking them and painting them...but no "how to". I guess I'll just have to go exploring on the camry tomorrow
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Old 02-15-2005, 04:04 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Thnx for the response, It still no dice. someone mentioned something about baking them and painting them...but no "how to". I guess I'll just have to go exploring on the camry tomorrow
all you would need to do is buy said products (in the thread) and spray the outside in thin coats after properly prepping/cleaning the surface (soap/water, dry, polishing compound, soap/water again)
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Old 02-15-2005, 05:13 AM   #5 (permalink)
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buy headlight protectors, paint them instead.
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painting headlights....
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Hmm....Let's say I tint the headlights, obviously they would be dimmer at night, would it be that bad if I threw on some siverstars....Anybody have any problems
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Old 02-15-2005, 03:42 PM   #8 (permalink)
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depends on how much you tint them...
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well, there's that......


but more so, it gives the popo even more reason to trouble you....and that's one ticket that'll never get dropped
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Just get smoked headlight protector/covers so that you don't perform a modification that you can't undo w/o replacing the headlights. I've ridden in cars with the smoked covers on at night and them may be OK in town where there are a lot of street lights but forget about trying to drive over 50 mph on a road w/o street lights. Just try driving one night w/sunglasses the same shade that you think you want to tint your headlights to get an idea.
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Is there a way to just open the headlights up and paint everything (housing) around them.....I saw the post on someone doing it with a civic
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yeah^^ that would require baking
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Yes, baking....look up a couple of posts . I tried the search folks, can I get a little help as to actually opening up the headlights, time, temperture, all that other good stuff..........
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jugga, many threads have been posted on baking. lookup the 'clear headlight' diy article. just search 'clear headlight' or whatever. there's been many threads about this.
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Old 02-16-2005, 09:24 PM   #15 (permalink)
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look: 5 seconds and I found it... http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/t22858.html
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