heres a pic of my new darkened front lights,took them apart and aprayed the reflectors in each lght with high temp black matt paint ,was a fiddly job but i like em. many thanks to duncan for the advice on what to do ,cheers pal.
http://www.lexusownersclub.com/gallery/alb...x_063.sized.jpg

looking good

It certainly looks better, how has this affected the light brightness though

ta pal,brake hoses fitting tommorow aswell.

Looks great mate, you've done a top job there, the car looks mint

Did you take the orange bits out too?

Can I ask a stupid question as I've been thinking about this mod as it looks ace - does it affect the amount of light that is being chucked out onto the road at nighttime?

smart

to norkep and aido,i didnt spray the inner chrome reflectors ,the round parts around the bulbs,i would imagine a slight loss in brightness will occur but not too much,will let you know tommorow night when i`m out in it,duncan says not so i went with his recommendations.

Looks good Dave,did you do the rears as well.?

norkep and aido,ive just been out to test the lights and they are fine,same as before lads,well i cant notice any difference anyway.so get to it boys

Excellent work Dave

look just like mine

no i bought some rears off chris ,dark tinted.it would have been nice to match th front ones with the same quality paint and colour but getting that stuff in heat resistent wouldnt happen.

Looks fantastic Dave...

Come on then....tell me how you did it so I can knacker mine then

Neil

nice job dave i will send you mine to do. look fantastic mate.

looks great Dave..

although, when i had my JDM's i did notice the lights wernt as bright, but that was with standard bulbs....

they looked Sweet Dave
might have a go at that myself, and some of those rear tinted lights too

well done dave, makes quite a difference, need to do mine now mate.

thanks for your comments lads,ian i do have the phillips blue vision bulbs in so maybe thats the reason they seem ok ,wosket you know where i am if you need a hand pal.

excellent job....
What I wana know, is when you doing mine

I did a similar mod to my lights some months back , but I got the surrounds rechromed in a darker chrome , I didn't notice any loss in light output whatsoever either , and it looks much better/meaner IMHO.
I also did the fog lamps the same way , they're easier to take apart than the headlights btw...

anytime pal,or maybe ive forgot how crap the job is to do ,hhmm

redlexus,nice job matey.

can you show us a picture of the re-join surface,, where the clear plastic lens is mated back to the grey plastic,,
when i did mine last year on the 200, the only problem is that area looking 'chewed'.. scoprians ones look nice with little if not any deformation..
im condifering doing mine but really dont want a chewed up edge look..

i thought you had done a set before in blue,hey if petes look good ask him to do yours.the sides of my lamps outside are spot on,the top edge inside is slightlly warped but not too bad,but its not seen anyway so who cares .

same problem here.....an oven would help , i reckon.

hi mate will you do mine when i get me a lex ?

two compoments are needed

1. a hairdryer
2. patience

ahhh thats were i went wrong.... ran out of patience..:-p

can you get patience from the big h?

you get petience in hospitals

thats where im going wrong, been using a deck of cards, bugger!

and saucy nurses ,yummy

Nice job Dave

thanks pal,nice to hear from you .