hey peepz~
i'm just came back from this auto shop call "artistry" located @ lake on that hills, IL.
they willing to do my "CLEARED & BLACKED OUT HEADLIGHTS" 4 $600...
wut do u guys think?? is it too much?? should i just do it??

 

do these guys know what they are doing , its not easy. and once you mest it up its a pain in the ballz to fix

 

i think they DO know wut they have to do.
they told meh they done this kind of work before.....

 

to be honest they probably have now the real questions is are they good. i would ask to see a set that they have done b4 becuase you will be highly pissed off if your HID's start acting up after you get this work done. know what i mean

 

$600!? For what? Labor? You aren't actually getting anything but labor and a little paint... they take apart your lights, paint 'em black (which I don't think looks so hot, JMHO), take out the reflector (which I also don't think looks too hot ) and put it back together again?

Why not get some Comptech springs and sways for your $600? Or Comptech exhaust? Or a kick ass stereo system? New rubber for your stock rims? Or keep saving towards really kickass rims? Or buy one really kickass rim!

 

damm nate confuse a fella.... lol

nate just thinks everyones is a mod buff

 

That's funny.

 

IMO, $600 is a rip-off. Have you asked around?

 

I tried to clear out my half broken headlamp today as an experiment (it was going in the trash anyways)

All I have to say is it was pretty difficult to heat the old silicon and keep it totally hot to be able to start removing the lense without leaving pry marks and/or deforming the housing.

I think I might have had more luck with a heatgun from Home Depot or something. I was using a ****ty travel hairdryer.

I'll be buying a heatgun anyways for my shop and will post results when done. Someone has posted instructions on how to do it yourself on another forum. I'll post a new topic here if need be with the instructions.

If you pay this guy $600 to do this work, your crazy! How do you know they are going to correctly re-seal your entire headlamp? I would not pay someone to do it if I were you. IMHO

But that does sound about the right amount for the labor that is involved in this. It is very tedious (unless there is a special chemical that will remove the old silicone. Speaking of which, does anyone know if there is? (could save me like 5 hours of work when I start this project

Jerry

 

I tried to clear out my half broken headlamp today as an experiment (it was going in the trash anyways)

All I have to say is it was pretty difficult to heat the old silicon and keep it totally hot to be able to start removing the lense without leaving pry marks and/or deforming the housing.

I think I might have had more luck with a heatgun from Home Depot or something. I was using a ****ty travel hairdryer.

I'll be buying a heatgun anyways for my shop and will post results when done. Someone has posted instructions on how to do it yourself on another forum. I'll post a new topic here if need be with the instructions.

If you pay this guy $600 to do this work, your crazy! How do you know they are going to correctly re-seal your entire headlamp? I would not pay someone to do it if I were you. IMHO

But that does sound about the right amount for the labor that is involved in this. It is very tedious (unless there is a special chemical that will remove the old silicone. Speaking of which, does anyone know if there is? (could save me like 5 hours of work when I start this project

Jerry

 

when you consider StreetEffectz only charges $150 to clear the headlights, $600 is a CRAPLOAD of money for that!

I'm sure for $450 more he'd throw a coat of paint on it when the lights are apart! Hell, I cleared my headlights myself, I'll do the damn thing for you for $500

 

yeah.....that sounds ridiculous to me. there has got to be something better to spend that $800 on. imo.

 

I could probably do the clearing and have it custom painted at my body shop with real paint (just like on your car) for about $450. If I just did it myself with some nice enamel, figure around $300 for clearing and painting.

 

i live in vancouver, canada and i wuz quoted $150 canadian to clear my headlights!!! (thatz about $100 US) and i still thought that wuz expensive and ended up doin it myself for free... it really wuzn't 2 hard. u don't really have 2 know much about cars or b a genius 2 clear ur headlight... and as for blacking it out, just get some black spray paint for $10 (or $20 for the better kinds) and spray it urself... if u really insist on having somebody else do it for u, mail ur headlamp over to me and i'll do it for u for $150(i'll pay for the shipping )

 

headlights, not taillights.... :o

 

With 600 bucks, you can buy your set of headlights to play wit and do it yourself. Its not that hard.... just takes patience and a lot of time. Instructions are free somewhere on this forum....

 

$600 is way to Much dude.. spend it on something else on your car ... they aren't really selling you anything but labour and stupid black paint.. wat a rip off..