How's it look?

 

looking good........
write up a short diy.

 

Yes, you must write something up about that. It definitely is unique as I have not seen any 1st gen TL's with smoked headlights. I want to see daytime pics too!

 

Yeah im gonna try to take pictures during the day tomorrow. But whats diy? im kinda new to the forums

 

Looks good man. I would like to know how to do this myself also!

 

DIY = do it yourself... post directions how you did this so other members can try..

 

damn...looks good. did you smoke the insides or the outsides? looks like you smoked the bumper lenses too. nice job.

 

can you still see the road at night??

 

Good question. Waiting for daytime pics...

 

Update:

Have day-time pics by tomorrow and DYI instructions.

 

wow, very very nice.

diy please :P

 

So what do you do when it's time to get the car inspected? Surely that won't pass.

Maybe I'm just old, but it seems unwise to mess with anything that inhibits both your visibility as well as the ability to be seen by others.

It does look unique though.

 

the paint is a transparent tint. light is still going to go through them fairly well, it'd be different if the paint was just a solid black but in this case, it's a non-issue.

 

Daytime pics .....And i ordered the film from www.lamin-x.com and its a thick tint film it goes on the outside of the light and since they dont make pre-cut film for our car i had to measure the taillights/headlights/bumperlights on the car and when i got it, it came with instructions its pretty simple and the place i called to install it was charging me 60 bucks so me and my dad put it on and it came out pretty well, u should also use a heatgun that works and the light does shine through the film its transparent. feel free 2 ask questions hope u like the daytime pics...

 

oh man, looks delicious!

 

while anything black looks stupid on my car, that looks incredible on a white tl.

very nice and suprisingly still looks classy

 

look like undercover po-po!! add black wheels it will probaly look 10x times better.

 

hey nice pics , please post some with the lights on please

 

It all depends where you live. In florida, we don't go through inspection. I think inspections are only a northern thing. My brother lives up in Jersey and he says tints/lowering/and exhausts are illegal. Like the exhaust has to be a certain decibal in order to be street legal up there.

 

Smoked lights with the lights on.

 

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH HHHHHH

 

glad you liked

 

Damn that is hot....wish I still had my TL.

 

The car looks amazing but the headlights are little too dark for me. I'd rather have smoked instead of blacked

 

yeah, i live in jersey and you wouldnt make it past the first cop you saw with that shit

the tailights you could but def not those headlights. its like those covers that were popular in the early 90's and not only that there is NOT a single state that you would be able to go through inspection

thats personally not my taste but if you like it then you shouldn't rely on what other people think

again personally, i like my JDM-style headlights

 

JerseyDriver, mind posting up some pics of JDM style headlights?

And are smoked healights really illegal in all states?

 

scale of 1-10 how hard? I wanted to tint my taillights but thought about going the spray on method. Does anyone know if you can rent a heatgun or how much they cost?

 

From a scale of 1-10 id say it was about a 6 or 7 nothing to hard just getting the bubbles out was the hard part

 

You can rent a heat gun from Home Depot. i think thast you can get it from Lowe's as well, but I KNOW that you can get it from the Home Depot. I almost rented one myself a while back when I had a dent in my rear bumper. I was going to try and fix it myself for cheap, but I got a new bumnoer so it didn't matter any more.