One2chi

my headlights are boring....what do you sugggest, im fairly poor so jdm 1 piece is out.....are they paintable inside? or will they ont work then? i guess this is a pretty gay post, but im bored and im looking at my imagestation pictures of my car....and its ugly.

Nick M

eh

wrong forum, but ill let it slide since u said u were bored.

Yeah u can paint the inside except the rear reflective part. I did it. Why I did it I dont know. It looks nice, but I want stock lights again.

One2chi

yeah it is the wrong forum....but i'd get made fun of in the appearence forum with my ugly car they dotn appricate cords there

p0pe

Do it yourself black housing, try searching.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=282131

I think stock looks awesome though, similar to JDM integra headlights.

One2chi

yea thats for civics i was wondering hwo it worked on the accord

edit: i did search ...and i saw that thread a while ago


[Modified by One2chi, 3:51 AM 1/29/2003]

iam7head

it works all the same..
here my ghetto diagram of the layers of headlight..(together)
<<<<<<Clear>>>>>& gt;>>> 1
<VVCHROME HOUSINGVVV> 2
>XXREFLECTER MATERIALX< 3
>>>>>BASE<<<<<<&l t;<<< 4

<<<<<<<<<CLEAR>>& gt;>>>
<........................................&gt ; 1

VVHOUSINGVVV 2(paint here)

XXXXREFLECTORXXXX 3

>..................................<
>..................................< 4
>>>>>>Base<<<<<&l t;<<


[Modified by iam7head, 5:56 AM 1/29/2003]

iam7head

they all works the same..
it looks very good in 5th gen imo..
if you have a clear corner you can paint the housing of it too..
there's some JDM wannabe black housing corner for 5th gen

paul9luap

I tried it myself, I didn't like it. I just bought the JDM style replicas. They look good, and they use H4 and H2 bulbs. I've had them for over a year, and no problems with fogging up.





EDIT: The top picture is current, the red H logo was stolen.


[Modified by paul9luap, 10:53 AM 1/29/2003]

Baltz

Is it possible on 4th gens also? I was looking at them and you have to take the metal clips off right? Well my luck I know I would break one so I have always been scared to take apart the headlights...

Old Skool

what kind of front lip is that..its nice

paul9luap

Wings West Touring Style

One2chi

do u have to take the front bumper off to take out the lights?

93accordEX

yes its possible, and yes you remove the clips.

95sihb

one2hi i found it alot more easy to take the bumper off to get the headlights out , you can take the headlights off with the bumper on, but i found that i little room to work with and hard to get to 2 of the 5 screws holding the deadlights in.

One2chi

k, how hard is the bumper to take off....ive taken one off my friends bmw....and it was a bitch....is it any easier in an accord? ive been avoiding doing it maily cuse its too cold outside to work out there for too long/lay on the floor

Kazmans94cord

why is everyone complaining about the weather?? geez...its nice outside!!

paul9luap

It is a pain to take the bumper cover off. It makes it a lot easier with two people present. Plus, once you take a bump cover off, it will never go back on the exact same. You can get it close, but not exact.

One2chi

i have another person to take it off with....is it that hard to get it back on?

paul9luap

no, not "hard", just be patient. one person should hold it up in the center while the other is reattaching everything.

95sihb

one2hi.........takeing off the bumper was not hard at all, i did it my self and put it back together my self... if you have some help the better it is for you. the only thing i had a problem with taking off the bumper was taking off the black plastic screws off, from between the bumper and the headlights you will see what i mean. all i did to take them out was loosen the headlight bolts some move the tilt the headlights out of the was and you should be able to take them off.i think there are 2 under each headlight and you should be able to remove them. good luck e-mail me if you have a question. eric