So as some of you know, I have been putting my car back to stock (if not you can read about it below)
https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-photograph-gallery-96/my-3g-tl-build-04-mt-am-type-s-conversion-901056/

I purchased a driver side headlight from a flood damaged car to repair and put on my car. Well I was going to send it to JNC as I have sent many 3G TL headlights to him and he does great work. But I wanted to do my 4G TL headlights too, so I thought this would be the time for a trial run.

Here are the pictures:
Before



Disassembled




Cleaned and reassembled (not resealed though)


The chrome came off of the "chrome strip" and I couldn't find any good chrome paint for plastics.


The Passenger headlight


Fixed the lenses (passenger wasn't too bad to start with, just some normal pitting)





End result after painting





To fix the lens I wet sanded it with grits:
400-600-1000-1500-2000-2500-3000
Then got a microfiber towel and hand buffed with
meguiars ultimate polish, then meguiars ultimate compound.

I will be sealing the headlights with woofgang headlight sealant.

Since the chrome strip came off, I decided to open both headlights up and give them some paint.

I used Krylon paint for plastic on the innards:
Gloss paint- projector bezel and chrome strip
Satin paint- chrome housing in front of the fog bulbs

Surprisingly everything from the flood damaged light worked:
ignitor
shutter for the high beams
red/black power wire for shutter

 

Great fucking job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'll admit, when I saw the first picture, I thought it was a goner.
the last few pics of it all cleaned up got my attention!!!


you must have spent some time on it!
again, great job!!

 

nice job. the cost/benefit though for me would be the initial cost of the damaged light plus time invested vs just buying a ready to go aftermarket assembly

looks great though

 

Wow great work!

 

That's some nice work!! I like what you did with the black paint. I was never a fan of all the chrome in the base headlights. Looks great!

 

Nice!

 

Looks fabulous!

 

Holy crap, that's a good rebirth of that headlight

 

Very nice! UC is more aggressive than UP fyi

 

Wow, hell of a job, Skier. Congrats!

 

Damn, I did not expect such a good result after seeing the first pics. Great job

 

that's one amazing job!