Need opinon on headlight mod CL's havent seen yet
04-26-2009, 09:06 PM
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Need opinon on headlight mod CL's havent seen yet
Ok so tomorrow im putting on a CAI and i figure while my bumpers off I should clear my headlights. Sitting around at work today I had the idea of taking the reflector off and painting it black then putting an LED across it with them about an inch apart from each other. Heres a pic of what its essentially going to look like, any opinion appreciated.
04-26-2009, 09:29 PM
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Instructor
as long as its a clean install, it would look nice. However i would make sure they are recessed into the housing, and personally i would use slightly larger and less LEDS (audi R8?). Thats just my 2cents
04-26-2009, 09:29 PM
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If you do that, black out the whole headlight. It would look right with just a black rectangle on one side.
04-26-2009, 09:38 PM
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OK, im planning on redoing my headlights as well. Here is my idea tho, since I dont want to go through all the baking and resealing of the headlights because im way too scared to, I thought of this. By using spray tint, seal of just the area of the reflector and spray it darker, then do the rest of the headlight with just a light coat. This is some PS's I did.
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04-26-2009, 09:38 PM
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04-26-2009, 09:45 PM
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^I agree. It just wouldnt look right, all that clear with just a black rectangle doesnt look right. you would definitely have to black the whole thing out. I would clear the yellow, black the entire housing, and do the recessed bigger LEDs Like i said above.
04-26-2009, 09:50 PM
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I bought 8 inch LED's at the ny auto show and am gonna try to make daytime running lights like the Audi's have to see how it looks. I have a Extra headlight I got from a junkyard ( i needed the ballast and the guy would not seperate it) so I'm gonna play with it when I get some time. Some of the 3rd gen TL guys did it and it looks NICE!
04-27-2009, 02:46 AM
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Yeah, im thinking about doing the whole headlight black with the black led refracror, it should look pretty good. I was just looking at the idea of adding those to the side markers i didnt want it to look.....ghetto. Ill post up some pics when I do it but its not gonna be for a while b/c its too time consuming and tomorrow i wont have that time
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