So I slightly burned one of the covers on my lights because I forgot to take out one of the screws and therefore thought the silicone needed to be in the oven for longer than expected, luckily everything else about my painted lights and grille has come out awesome and I will be posting final pics once I finish up later on today, (with the burnt headlight cause I do need to be able to drive the car untill i can fix it). It was an experience and just what I've learned so far, its easy to do, but you really have to watch the oven (aka don't be stupid) and 2. it looks REALLY good once your done (even with a burnt light :P) so yeah I'm thinking about ordering a used LH 03/04 sedan light off e-bay and just baking the top off of it and baking that top back onto my painted light unless anyone here has a light/light cover that they're selling relatively cheap (I'd be willing to take a broken light i really just need the cover)
peace for now,
Travis

ps here are some pics:

To start with the screw up


Then the painted stuff


and the car without her face


on a side note I de-badged my G35 emblem and took out the red stripes on the reverse lights (there's a tarp on top but you can see it in this pic) I know it needs to be polished out, but my rear bumper has a pretty hefty scratch on the back from when I bought it used so I plan to get it painted anyways.

 

I love the look of the reverse lights w/o the strips. Much cleaner. I assume that was relatively simple to do? I'd love to paint my headlights too but that is definitely beyond me at this point.

 

ouch a tarp on top of your ride? Any scratches?

 

there are few on here that can do it for you, I for one did it myself, the hardest part making sure its resealed just as perfect..........

 

I seem to be the only one that has kept the upper part of the lights chrome........ Im not digging the whole shroud being black. Oh well just not my cup of tea I guess.......

 

i might be help full, i have two spare lights that i was working on putting HALO but i gave that up and put my light project off to the side, decsided to do projects instead. anyway its gonna be a while before i get to that, i have both covers baked off already. i dont mind sending you one if you still need it. just PM me. my lights are 05 W/HID's

 

I apreciate it, but I've already found some lenses. here are some pics of everything put together
side view with good light (though dirty)

Front view

close up of dirty light

 

Came out lookin good.

Too bad for the mishap but it happens. You didn't have the oven on broil instead of bake did you? Just curious. Glad you found some replacements already

 

What temp did you use? I have had mine in for ~20+ mins at 190-200 without anything like that.

 

probably 400 degrees because he thought he could cook his pizza at the same time

 

LOL

1 at a time grasshopper.

 

haha nah no pizza, nah it was at 280, but I think papa has it right, my oven was on broil so it really just got too hot on that one part of the light

 

looks nice, how'd u get those red strips out of the reverse lights?

 

There's actually a DIY on the lighting section, here's the link
https://g35driver.com/forums/body-in...e-removal.html

but yeah I had to make a makeshift pick to get it out, be extra careful not to scratch the light, and it is possible to get ALL of the red plastic out, just don't be afraid to pull hard once you get a grip on it with pliers

 

thanks, ill have to try it out sometime, how did u get in between the film and the plastic to pull it out?