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Old 05-12-2003, 07:18 PM
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i just painted my headlights and taped off a portion of the turn signal area..just curous as to how everyone else did it!

anyone NOT tape off anything?

(doing it to a friends car soon and thinking of painting the whole chromed bezel and the orange reflector ALL gunmetal..any ideas?
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ttt..anyone have suggestions/comments?
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do what ya like. but I haven't seen a set of DIY lights that actually looked remotely close to the JDM ones.
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do any of you guys have problems with water getting into the headlights? i wanted to paint my head lights but im afraid of water leaking into the lights.
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you seal it up when you're done with silicone. no leaks.
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or just reuse the seal. it's been over a month and 0 leaks. just press them together real good.
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DIY lights are for clearing your lights out or painting them... unless you get that gunmetal piece it wont look Gay-D-M but heres my 99-00 lights and how i did them.. quite simple actually

http://www.geocities.com/butlerspeed/civic/lights/
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