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steve0677Sep-14-03 02:40 PM
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#57173, "Poll question: blacked out my headlights - poll"


          

crysler kid brought this to my attention and im pretty happy with the results, lemme know wat u think... the pics are crappy



Poll result (27 votes)
looks great! (23 votes)Vote
it flows (4 votes)Vote
stockers unpainted probably looks better (0 votes)Vote
find some unpainted lights now to put in cuz thats awful! (0 votes)Vote
(0 votes)Vote
(0 votes)Vote

  

  

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RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, eclipse_gs_1512, Sep-14-03 02:44 PM, #1
RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, steve0677, Sep-14-03 02:46 PM, #2
      RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, farmdogg55, Sep-14-03 03:38 PM, #3
           RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, BMPDirk, Sep-14-03 05:04 PM, #4
                RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, 96eclipse2nr, Sep-14-03 05:07 PM, #5
                     RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, Collente, Sep-14-03 05:15 PM, #6
                          RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, blinkbizkit500, Sep-14-03 06:05 PM, #7
                               RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, chrysler kid, Sep-14-03 07:24 PM, #8
RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, porcelain, Sep-15-03 06:59 AM, #9
RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, TeamDR1665, Sep-15-03 11:50 AM, #10
      RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, steve0677, Sep-15-03 02:14 PM, #11
           RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, TeamDR1665, Sep-15-03 02:54 PM, #12
                RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, chrysler kid, Sep-15-03 03:03 PM, #13
                RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, steve0677, Sep-15-03 04:06 PM, #14
                     RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, 95_ESi_Person, Sep-16-03 11:24 AM, #15
                     RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, steve0677, Sep-16-03 11:54 AM, #16
                     RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, chrysler kid, Sep-16-03 12:01 PM, #17
                          RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, lonnie1977, Sep-16-03 03:03 PM, #18
                               RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, turbo8u, Sep-16-03 03:19 PM, #19
                                    RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, Uberingram, Sep-16-03 03:24 PM, #20
                                         RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, turbo8u, Sep-16-03 03:26 PM, #21
                                         RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, Uberingram, Sep-16-03 03:54 PM, #22
                                         RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, steve0677, Sep-16-03 04:39 PM, #23
                                              RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, Uberingram, Sep-16-03 05:15 PM, #24
                                         RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, ghostESiKY, Sep-17-03 12:48 PM, #25
RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, mrlocalpimp, Sep-16-03 03:23 PM, #26
RE: blacked out my headlights - poll, TeamDR1665, Sep-17-03 02:43 PM, #27

eclipse_gs_1512Sep-14-03 02:44 PM
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#57174, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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looks good from what i can see, but you need some day time pic emoji



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steve0677Sep-14-03 02:46 PM
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#57175, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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yeah it looks nice i think, one note here, i smoked my corner lenses.... i tried putting them in with orange 1st, 2nd with orange removed, and my final was a smoked layer over the corners to make them more subtle.



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farmdogg55Sep-14-03 03:38 PM
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#57188, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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definetly looks better. i want to see pics of the smoked in the daytime. now you should put your clear corners back in and smoke those too:thumbsup

  

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#57196, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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looks pretty sweet dude....day pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#57197, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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you painted the chrome peices black right?? looks tight. id like to do mine but im afraid ill screw something up or they wont seal back up right and ill have leaks.

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CollenteSep-14-03 05:15 PM
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#57198, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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Hey nice, I like them smoked. Little off subject but do you always ride with your headrest that high? Maybe its just me I am only 5'10 but damn.
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#57204, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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looks great man!

  

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chrysler kidSep-14-03 07:24 PM
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#57207, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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ok my next weekend project will be to do that to my headlights. it looks better than i couldve imagined !! emoji

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porcelainSep-15-03 06:59 AM
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#57229, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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Looks great...especially with the clear corner effect. I did the same to my old headlights and it improved the look of the car imensely. Keep up the good work emoji

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#57259, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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You all know he was inspired from seeing my headlights all the time, right? emoji

  

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#57289, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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>You all know he was inspired from seeing my headlights all
>the time, right? emoji

actually man ur right!

>Hey nice, I like them smoked. Little off subject but do you always >ride with your headrest that high? Maybe its just me I am only 5'10 >but damn.

man i didn't even notice how high that shit was, lol

>you painted the chrome peices black right?? looks tight. id like to >do mine but im afraid ill screw something up or they wont seal back >up right and ill have leaks.

yep chrome is black, and the corner lenses got a very quick spray of black.




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#57300, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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One of the most satisfying of the cheap mods imo. Wouldn't you agree Steve? I did mine in about 3 hours. Of course, paint dries faster when it bakes in the AZ sun, so...


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chrysler kidSep-15-03 03:03 PM
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#57304, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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when are you gonna get those 95/96 foglights now?

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#57313, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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>One of the most satisfying of the cheap mods imo. Wouldn't
>you agree Steve? I did mine in about 3 hours. Of course,
>paint dries faster when it bakes in the AZ sun, so...
>
>
>I love em. They are mad tyte yo. emoji

i kept taking the lights apart, turned into an all day event. i accidentally made the oven too hot and melted some of my headlight. still havn't really got a chance to really look at them, from wat i have seen so far it works on the car nicely... and yes it is cheap, cant beat that emoji

crylser kid, i had fogs and sold them, i like it open down there



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#57375, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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what kind of paint did you use? rattle can? any clear on them?

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#57378, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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hi temp paint, flat black, in a can



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#57379, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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>
>crylser kid, i had fogs and sold them, i like it open down
>there
>


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL emoji

i dont like it open, it looks disproportional

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#57406, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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Now you can help me with mine.



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#57407, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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writeup?!?! dude i wanna do that to my lights so bad! i just have negative idea how
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#57409, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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Take your headlights out and bake them in the oven at 350 degrees. After a bit the glue holding the front lens to the back of the light gets gooey and you can take them apart. Just paint what you see chrome. Heat up the glue again and put it back together and dry.

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#57410, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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>Take your headlights out and bake them in the oven at 350
>degrees. After a bit the glue holding the front lens to the
>back of the light gets gooey and you can take them apart.
>Just paint what you see chrome. Heat up the glue again and
>put it back together and dry.

are you serious....thats freakin easy. thanks ube


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#57413, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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Just be careful with that gook. It gets messy real quick if you're not paying attention.

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#57419, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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>>Take your headlights out and bake them in the oven at 350
>>degrees. After a bit the glue holding the front lens to the
>>back of the light gets gooey and you can take them apart.
>>Just paint what you see chrome. Heat up the glue again and
>>put it back together and dry.
>
>are you serious....thats freakin easy. thanks ube
>
>


http://www.auburn.edu/~fauchpj/headlight.htm

actual writeup

hey lon lemme know and i will help ya out



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#57423, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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sweet! I was looking for it but couldnt find it. Thx

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#57488, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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>Take your headlights out and bake them in the oven at 350
>degrees. After a bit the glue holding the front lens to the
>back of the light gets gooey and you can take them apart.
>Just paint what you see chrome. Heat up the glue again and
>put it back together and dry.

yeh and make sure you use high temp paint like steve did.........i used plain ass regular spray paint. now mines more of a, faded, paint almost evaborated off, off black been sitting in the sun way to long painted head lights emoji

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#57408, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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your headlights are blacked out

I got banned for being a constant tard.

  

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#57495, "RE: blacked out my headlights - poll"
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On mine, I used a Rustoleum primer and glass black, with a hi-temp clear coat. It's been almost a year now, and they still look great. It seems to me though, that maybe the chrome plating on that plastic help to dissapate some heat. In the past couple months, my lenses have started to get that faint bubbly-peeling skin to them. Only right in the beam though. Weird. I just need to Simichrome them and they will be golden.

Now don't everybody go out and do it! Hehe. emoji

  

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