JNC,
have you ever modded the depo headlights? As I was going to order a set and send them to you.

Great work BTW....

 

wanna see more JnC work! O_O 3 threads is not enough!!! lol

 

Thanks, bud. Yes, I have, the sealant is a bit tough to work with and fit and finish of internals isnt that great but still good enough to be modded/used.

 

Sorry, chief. I havent been as active in updating this thread as I usually am, will be posting some pictures soon of recent work

 

Details

04-05 TL headlights
Blacked out V2
Matte Black
Painted fog light bulb cover
USR clear diffusers
ZKW-R lenses
CF corners

 

Details

04-05 TL Headlights
Blacked out V2
Partial amber diffusers
Super high gloss black
ZKW-R lenses

 

Details


04-05 TL headlights
Blacked out V3
Super high gloss black
Gun metal colored OEM bezel
Black crossbar and fog light bulb cover
ZKW-R Lenses

 

Not the greatest picture but here is the key difference between V2 and V3, in V2 the whole piece is painted black where as in V3 the inside ring is left chrome.

 

Details


07-08 Base TL headlights
Blacked out V2
USR clear diffusers
CF corners
ZKW-R lenses
side emitting LED strips
Umnitza multi colored quad halos

My camera doesnt pick up the bright colors as well as I'd like, hence I am posting only a few of the different colors that the halos can produce, I believe there are a total of 8 colors. Pink, blue, white, red, green, purple to name a few

 

Full scale lens restoration also available now. If your lights have aged badly and have mild or severe hazing, pitting, scratches etc then send them in and get them rejuvenated, just like how they were when they first got put on the car from factory. Lens restoration includes application of clear coat to avoid UV damage.




Most of the TL headlights that you see posted above have been slightly or heavily restored, I try to make sure that each set that goes to the new customer looks its best before getting installed on the car


PM me for pricing.


Here is an example.


BEFORE







AFTER

 

Details


05 RL headlights
Custom cut off shields
Clear lens swap
Phillips 85122+ bulbs swap
Painted amber diffusers (SSM)
Complete front lens restoration


Diffusers still let 50% light through.

 

what do the side diffusers look like at night when wrapped in CF? is there any amber at all? Also, when you do the partial amber, do you just break off the other half?

 

JNC, that Jeep headlight restore is fantastic.
RL lights are absolutely stunning. Is that silver amber painted corner just a parking light or signal?

 

When the USR diffusers are wrapped towards the corners with CF, it only covers the area that is suppose to reflect light rather than diffuse light from the turn signal/parking light bulb. So the area that actually lets light through is left untouched.

Here is how it looks like without lights on



and here is how it looks like with light on, bulbs that are used are switchback.



In case of partial diffusers, I use oem amber diffusers from 04-08 base model headlights, diffusers are cut to cover the corner of the turn signal reflector as you can see in the following picture.

 

Details

06 Canadian TL headlights
Blacked out V2
High gloss black
USR clear diffusers
CF corners overlays
ZKW-R lenses

 

Hey Jnc, do you happen to have any modded headlights for sale?

 

Thanks, bud. Yeah the Jeep headlights did turn out to be awesome, the owner thought I had gotten him a new set rather than refinish the old ones :chuckle.

In case of the RL, the turn signal is actually below the low beam projector and high beam reflector, small reflector as you can see, the diffusers on the turn signal is already clear hence I didnt have to do anything there, the amber piece in the corner only covers the parking light. As suggested in the post above, it still lets plenty of light through as I only painted the diffusers slightly.

24no7 : which year TL do you have?

JnC

 

hey JnC, how much would the dual bi-xenon lights run me but keep the full amber in? anyway to get them to work on the same switch?

 

damn JnC you do good work

 

Quad retro labor is $250, which includes labor for blacked out etc as well.

Here is the kit that gets used. PM me for kit pricing.

GP16: Thanks, bud.

 

^Jnc, i have an 04 tl. what years tl's headlights do you have for sale, if you happen to have any.

 

will the missing-DRL indicator appear to the dash if I retrofit my 08 TLs headlight to quad-xenon since the inner pair headlights are DRL on 08 version? And how do I control them with the stock swich seperately if I only want to turn the outter pair on sometimes? or I have to turn all of them on at a time?

 

With the quad GS retros that I do, most members just unplug the DRL relay to rid the light on the dash, I believe thats what TL owners have done as well.

A separate switch would help controlling the extra set of lows.

 

Hey JnC, I noticed that none of the above posted headlights have any silicone around the edges.. what gives? I assume it's not necessary?

 

Matt sent his headlights over to get them fixed, he had initially done the project himself but didnt like the way it turned out. Project took three times the normal time due to the fact that the lights were in poor shape and had severe damage due to the epoxy/adhesives used.



Details

Here is what was mended

- Removed OEM sealant
- Removed secondary sealant that was applied
- Removed adhesives used inside to adhere the halos and diffusers
- Mend adhesive channel
- Mend main chrome bezels
- Replace broken bezel on the driver side
- Resruface USR diffusers, shaved for proper fitment.
- Resurface front lenses, inside ( to remove epoxy resdue left by epoxy fumes) and outside
- Re-solder all four halos to avoid issue with them failing down the road

Mods

Blacked out V2, glossy black
USR clear diffusers with CF overlays
ZKW-R lenses
Cross bar painted gun metal as the chrome was damaged due to epoxy



Some before pictures


















and some after pictures

 

^^^I was thinking the same thing...very cleanly sealed and closed. I think part of my problem this last go around was I didn't let my butyl stuff get hot enough and it prevented me from closing all the locking tabs on the outer edge of the assembly. JNC obviously knows what he's doing!

Thanks for the answer above btw...fantastic.

 

Details

Here is what was mended

- Removed OEM sealant
- Removed secondary sealant that was applied
- Removed adhesives used inside to adhere the halos and diffusers
- Mend adhesive channel
- Mend main chrome bezels
- Replace broken bezel on the driver side
- Resruface USR diffusers, shaved for proper fitment.
- Resurface front lenses, inside ( to remove epoxy resdue left by epoxy fumes) and outside
- Re-solder all four halos to avoid issue with them failing down the road

Mods

Blacked out V2, glossy black
USR clear diffusers with CF overlays
ZKW-R lenses
Cross bar painted gun metal as the chrome was damaged due to epoxy



And Phillips 85122+ bulb upgrade Thanks again JNC, Cant wait to get them in my car.Almost embarrassing how shitty of a job I did lol,But they look beautiful now

 

Nice work. Love the 'challenge accepted' pic lol

 

Once again many thanks to Jnc for the great job on my headlights. This man really does great work!!!

 

can you post some sample pics of custom headlights you did on WDP TL?

 

Check out the following thread for pictures of lights installed.

http://www.acura-cl.com/forums/showt...=724822&page=1

 

Looking good, Ro.


See if you can post some hi-res pictures in the following thread

http://www.acura-cl.com/forums/showt...=724822&page=1

 

No prob man and thank you again.

 

[QUOTE=JnC;13139074]Imabeast31 sent his lights in a few weeks ago to had them redone. The front lenses were shot due to heat damage caused by being in the over for too long. He also got into a fender bender and damaged the passenger side light severely, which included broken inside bezel and completely shattered inner side mount of the headlight plus the headlight itself had a crack.

Couple of before pictures to show the damage and condition of the front lens.





As I personally love challenges like these I wanted to fix these lights
Since you love challenges would you do a retrofit projectors & halos in my 03 Cl headlights

 

Where are the afters of the above lights?

AND, are people really paying $300 for those color shifting angel eyes from umnitza?!?! WOW.

 

Yes, those are indeed $300. Installing them is a pain as well as there is tons of wiring involved but it is kind of cool being able to change colors on the fly.

Here is the original post for the above mentioned headlights.

 

 

Nicely done, sir.

I did a little something fun to my backup set of lights today. I'll share with you via PM in case you want to make available to your customers!

J.

 

PM sent

 

awesome stuff, man. are you still doing work on headlights?