just wondering if you can paint the inside of your headlights with out taking off the front bumper.. (painted black around the bulbs) maybe taking the covors off somehow ?

 

Impossible unless you just tint them.

To get to the inside of the headlight you have to take the headlight out and open it up.

 

If it were that easy, everyone would have black housing headlights.

You have to take off the bumper cover and the reinforcement to get the headlight out. Then you have to bake the headlight to remove the cover, take the frame out, spray, put it back, then warm up the headlight to put the cover back on. Afterwards, add some sealant to ensure that water doesn't get in.

~Cheers~

 

ahh i wish it were as easy as my friends regal.. 2 clips and its off.. may try that if i get the time. elaborate on the "baking" part please.

 

For the baking you have to set them in the oven for 20 minutes at 200. You do not preheat the oven before you put them in. You just put them in.

Then when it comes out hot, take a flat head screwdriver, take it where the clips are and pry it open. You have to apply a good amount of pressure to get them open though.

Then you have the headlight open.

REMEMBER TO WEAR LATEX GLOVES SO YOU DON'T GET YOUR FINGERPRINTS ALL OVER THE INSIDE OF THE HEADLIGHT!!!!!!!!!

 

Here is a thread that goes more into detail for you.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/184466/18

I followed this method when my friend and I did his lights on his Mazda and they came out great.

 

yep..our TLs are a pain...in my old volvo there were 5 clips.
It took me like two days to take mine off; i was to scared to stick my headlights in the oven so i sticked a thin screwdriver in between the lens/headlight and took out most of the rubber epoxy and eventually pried them open

 

Dude, preheat then 6 minutes at 210*F: done. 20 minutes is overkill! Well, I guess longer would help the glue soften, but I didn't want to risk melting anything but the glue.
That's determination, haha.

~Cheers~

 

Its not that bad... I did them in a few hours one night... you^ remember...

btw you still at mocha?

 

^ I remember. I retrofitted the headlights in one night, too.

At the time of your post, I had left already. Eric and Sally wanted tot go to sleep, and John and Preston came over to kick it.

~Cheers~

 

that was disaster.....