Hi guys... I stored my car for the winter and before I did I took out the bumper and headlights.

I overcame my fear of taking the headlights apart and now I have a couple of questions.

1. My headlights are apart but I can't seem to take flasher reflective housing out of the headlight assembly. There is no bolt, but I won't come off. Should I just pull harder (don't want to break it) ? Am I missing anything ?

2. I saw that alot of you guys have part of the flasher reflective housing painted and part of it remains reflective. How do you paint only part of it without having any overspray of crooked lines and so on...

3. If I paint the flasher housing completely... Will my flasher be very dim ? or will it be decent ?

 

This is how I did mine. Lots of Pics to explain. removing the chrome part from the light requires some pulling. there is a little ball that clips into the housing.

 

1) There are "tabs" that are designed to be inserted into small slots which is how the reflector housing is held into place. In order to remove this reflector housing, you need to shift the whole reflector housing assembly to one side as you pull it out toward your body.

2)It Took me about 20 minutes with each headlight to mask it off with some Automotive painting tape. Don't be fooled by thinking plain old masking tape will work fine, use the good stuff. Also, this is going to require that you use many very small pieces of tape because (as you described) there are alot of angular areas.

3)Horribly dim. I'd recommend taking your time and masking it off. Your results will be like my reflector:

 

^what he said, you have to yang that piece out over the little "ball"
use tape to cover the parts you don't want painted
yes, they'll be dimmer, but not noticeably - you'll have to replace the bulb to an orange chrome bulb - the oem one is just regular yellow, and it looks out of place.

 

sorry I forgot to post the link.
https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-2004-2008-93/another-headlight-black-out-journal-w-partial-orange-reflector-643387/