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Old Oct 9, 2010 | 02:39 PM
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yet another rattle can headlight job

Finally decided to man up and tackle this since the weather is beautiful and i finally felt i had enough information to do this correctly. So last night i began removing the front bumper and housings. Baked them and removed the chrome pieces. Went to sleep and set the alarm for 7 am. Began prepping the surface with extra fine sanding cloth....basically red scotch brite pads but designed for automotive use. 2 coats of adhesive protomer....3 coats of high temp gloss black....and 3 coats of clear....and here we are. Results were much better than i expected with a rattle can....but i chalk that up to proper pre paint pre work. All i have is a cell phone camera right now but as you can see the paint looks great.










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Old Oct 9, 2010 | 04:37 PM
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Looks nice any pix of them installed?
 
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Old Oct 9, 2010 | 04:59 PM
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congrats! look's good
 
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Old Oct 9, 2010 | 05:46 PM
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looks good, post pics once they're back on the car
 
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Old Oct 9, 2010 | 06:43 PM
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Nice!! Too soon, post pics when they are back on the car.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2010 | 10:17 PM
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Finally got em in just as the sun was going down. I'll have my camera back tomorrow to get some better pics. The paint came out much better than i really expected. You can see the suns reflection in the paint on second pic for reference.









 
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Old Oct 10, 2010 | 03:54 AM
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very nice, I love how the black headlights come out against the IP
 
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Old Oct 10, 2010 | 05:33 AM
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your car looks very nice, all mods seem tasteful
 
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Old Oct 10, 2010 | 08:20 AM
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He just needs to black out those 2 chrome strips on the front grill lol
 
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Old Oct 10, 2010 | 09:22 PM
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sick stuff man!
 
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Old Oct 10, 2010 | 10:45 PM
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i dont have the ballzs to do something like that..looks great!!!
 
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Old Oct 10, 2010 | 10:47 PM
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That looks amazing. Good job, OP.
 
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 12:34 AM
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Looks perfect to me.
 
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 12:47 AM
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its any other way to do this whit out oven.
 
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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 01:38 AM
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He just needs to black out those 2 chrome strips on the front grill lol
2nd this
 
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