Headlight Mod Wip

[lee_iceman]

Just out of interest mate what make and colour did you use? Take it it was a spray can jobbie

[jay m]

looks like Halfords own brand spray under the lights.

thinking of doin my fogs this weekend, should be an interesting hungover task lol.

[Unregistered_User]

Haha, good luck mate. Looking forward to seeing the results.

Jamie

[fatboyslim]

Hi, did you spray your eyelids yourself or garage sprayed? I have just sent for some my car same colour as yours, wondering where I could get colour match paint to do them myself?

Ta Steve

Yeah I couldn't find any cans etc in Halfords or whatever to do it myself to left them to a local bodyshop :)

@ Lee, Done with Halfords cans, Grey Primer, then tried Rover Charcoal and then a little laquer.

The rover colour came out a lot darker than id expected but I quite like it though :)

[dibsLPG]

Hi, did you spray your eyelids yourself or garage sprayed? I have just sent for some my car same colour as yours, wondering where I could get colour match paint to do them myself?

Ta Steve

Yeah I couldn't find any cans etc in Halfords or whatever to do it myself to left them to a local bodyshop :)

@ Lee, Done with Halfords cans, Grey Primer, then tried Rover Charcoal and then a little laquer.

The rover colour came out a lot darker than id expected but I quite like it though :)

I most admit that makes a big difference on the front. Like it lot and been thinking about doing the dark lights for a while but was not sure if is would look good on Plat-Ice car (same colour has mine). So guess what my mod's mod is going to be.. It makes the car look mor aggressive with them eye lids..

Just handed mine in for the front end spay up and eye lids fitting. So can i take the headlights apart with the eye lids still on? And how easy is it take the lights off?

I need to find a step by step guide to do this headlight tints please?

Cheers

Dibslpg

[Fin_IS_200]

Check this topic about black headlights, how-to-guide on first post. Theres also many pictures of headlights made by others.

[PiratePete]

it will look wicked mate. probably better than mine cos my lenses are quite scratched. and stone chipped. havent managed to polish them yet

If you are talking about the hedlight lenses then you won't be able to polish them as they have a thin hardcoat that protects the Polycarb from going straw coloured in the sun, the hardcoat also protects the lenses from chipping. Polish this off and they will yellow within a few short months.

If you are talking about the fog lamps and they are glass then no problem, polish away.

I have recently discovered that the company I used to work for makes the IS200 headlights for Europe so I am seeing if I can buy direct from the company without using an agent. Failing that I'm going to try and get on site and have a root round there scrap bins ;)

[sorted vti]

that would be quite handy if u could get new lenses as mine are in pretty bad shape!!

[Shorty1979]

Man that looks so nice

now i have a first in my list of mods ;)

very nice job

[jason_l]

They look really good, one thing i would do though is get hold of some of the silver/orange indicator bulbs. I have them on mine and when the indicator is off you can't see the orange at all!

Jason :P

[dibsLPG]

it will look wicked mate. probably better than mine cos my lenses are quite scratched. and stone chipped. havent managed to polish them yet

If you are talking about the hedlight lenses then you won't be able to polish them as they have a thin hardcoat that protects the Polycarb from going straw coloured in the sun, the hardcoat also protects the lenses from chipping. Polish this off and they will yellow within a few short months.

If you are talking about the fog lamps and they are glass then no problem, polish away.

I have recently discovered that the company I used to work for makes the IS200 headlights for Europe so I am seeing if I can buy direct from the company without using an agent. Failing that I'm going to try and get on site and have a root round there scrap bins ;)

Sound's like a plan, post here once you have managed to find some lenses, since a few off us here would like to replace them with nice shinny new ones providing the price is right.. :D

Dibslpg