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Old Jan 11, 2010 | 07:28 AM
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Default New Headlights

**Made my OEM headlights black housing
**Put on DEPO Amber Corners
**Put on 8000k HID Kit

- Remove bumper lights
- Remove corner lights
- Remove bumper
- Remove headlights - 2 bolts up top, 1 on the bottom
- Clean headlights
- Remove metal clips
- Bake headlight @ 250F for 8 minutes
- Pry apart headlight
- Sand and clean the parts of the headlight you are going to paint
- Apply painters tape
- 3 coats of primer
- 1 coat of flat black
- Rebake headlight and apply lens
- Throw everything back on

Excuse my dirty Lude...it's Winter time.


Before and After:


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Old Jan 11, 2010 | 08:12 AM
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Looks better So do you blind oncoming traffic now? You should really use a proper HID projector housing with a cutoff if you want HID lights.
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Old Jan 11, 2010 | 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Hawkze_2.3
Looks better So do you blind oncoming traffic now? You should really use a proper HID projector housing with a cutoff if you want HID lights.
Thanks.

No Sir.
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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 07:47 PM
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nice job bro,im goin to try doin that on my stock headlights...what brand of primer u used and flat black?
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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 07:49 PM
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damn, those look pretty legit bro
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Old Jan 14, 2010 | 08:22 PM
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They look clean. But how long did it take to tape the inside? lol. Good, clean work.
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Old Jan 15, 2010 | 05:13 PM
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Where did you buy the amber corners? Im sanding my head lights up right now getting the scratches out and that black look super clean, i just need the new corner lights.
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Old Jan 15, 2010 | 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by punxsk8r555
Where did you buy the amber corners? Im sanding my head lights up right now getting the scratches out and that black look super clean, i just need the new corner lights.
EBAY has em for $9. but the shipping is like $15 bucks. i just ordered some.
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