Headlights came out great Fresh

 

anyone with a DP G35 paint the headlight housings? my G is in the body shop cuz someone hit me and i am thinking of color matching the housing or jst painting them black.

anyone have pics of a DP g with either black housing or color matched housing?

 

G SEDAN did. Car belongs to beebo now.

 

Anyone have any pics with IP paint match headlights?? I see vettes and ferraris with white headlights and think it looks sick. I would consider it on mine...but would love to see photos first! Search feature didnt come up with anything...

 

careful!! if you are not good with this, you should get help! I ruined my light!!

 

Sure.... one of the members did a photoshop with my car...

 

^^^ awesome

 

Color match is flaweless Ash. Looks like it came from the factory like that

 

Anyone try or seen pictures of smoked headlights? Not from the outside, but smoked on the chrome housing, on the inside? I'm thinking something like this color:

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/auto...e-emblems.html

Thoughts?

 

For the people that have done this, what difficulty would you give it out of 10? lol

Been wanting to do this for a while, but too scared that I'd **** it up...
Tried looking for someone to do it for me but a shop wanted $250+ for it lol

 

Hmmm, two scores. Technical difficulty is about a 5. The two hardest parts are dropping the bumper and getting the lens off, but neither is that bad. Psychological difficulty is about an 8, mostly because the thought of putting your light assembly in the oven is pretty scary.

I thought it was easier than painting my grille. Less real estate, so less sanding, and the coats were easier on the lights. The single biggest piece of advice I can give is that less is better than more. It's better to spray multiple light coats on and take your time than to have even one overspray coat.

And remember, your car will be undriveable while you're doing this, so plan your time accordingly. I took mine apart right after work on a Friday and did all my painting that night. Re-baked/re-assembled the lights in the morning and re-installed after that. I wanted the lights to completely dry overnight.
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That is true, but it really doesn't do any damage to your lights at 220 degrees, since our lights can handle extensive heat. If your really scared to put your lights in the oven then just go get a heat gun. I was going to go with the oven first, but it stopped working for some reason.. So i had to purchase a heat gun and the process was actually really easy. Also, this video below will help you understand the method a little better.

 

Yeah... at 220, it's really hard to damage a headlight.

I actually forgot one of mine and left it in for about 15 mins, it was no worse for the wear.

 

Thanks I appreaciate it

There;s also 2 pics in the OP that don't work. Papa you mind re-uploading them?

 

They appear to be missing from my album

They were just pics of roughed up/sanded bezels. I'll try to get some new pics up soon. Shouldn't stop you from proceeding though

Thanks for pointing that out