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Old 08-19-2008, 12:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Home made projectors?

Have anyone tryed to put projectors on their Trix? Do u know if the headlight is glued, baked or whatever its called. My Q is how hard is to open the headlight?
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They're easy to open up. If you search, you'll see that some members have painted the chrome inside the headlights, black. Some have done projectors as well. To open them up you first preheat the oven to 350 degrees then turn it off. Place the headlight (1 at a time, 2 won't fit)on a towel and place in the oven for about 10 minutes. Then remove and start prying them apart. To put them back together, fit them together the best you can then repeat the oven process then remove and squeez them back together as tight as possible, A web clamp helps here,
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Old 08-19-2008, 01:47 PM   #3 (permalink)
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They're easy to open up. If you search, you'll see that some members have painted the chrome inside the headlights, black. Some have done projectors as well. To open them up you first preheat the oven to 350 degrees then turn it off. Place the headlight (1 at a time, 2 won't fit)on a towel and place in the oven for about 10 minutes. Then remove and start prying them apart. To put them back together, fit them together the best you can then repeat the oven process then remove and squeez them back together as tight as possible, A web clamp helps here,
Preheat for 250 degress and leave it for 7 minutes.....350 is way high it will def melt the headlights....i just recently did mine 250 is good enough
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Any suggestions about the projectors? People say Acura TL has the best and tend to agree. They are a bit more expensive though compare to TSX for example. What do u think?
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