smoking your headlights (non smiley)without removing your lenses DIY

[Panici]

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[vr2jetta]

I like the yellow inners, probably would look gay on my red car, but looks cool on the black car. Yellow lenses help you see better anyway. How was that done?

[chunkymunky877]

i love how you got an E lip below your fogs.
i did the same :-)

[ak-]

why not get a hardtop instead of a bitch car ?

lmfao.

[free]

tinting the lense would be counter productive for improving the headlight. But considering how pitted your lights are i would have replaced my lenses. I have the colorline hellas on my car and the paineted reflector does not look bad. Plus if you have ecodes you would need to keep it for the city lights.

I have a broken lens on my driver's side ellipsoid. Is there a way to get a new glass lens without buying the whole damn assembly? The light works fine, just looks like crap.

[norcalE30]

That looks like a great idea, but what about sticking on some 3M film with a bit of tint on it?

how many times are people gonna ask this? its a bad idea! thats like wearing sunglasses at night... you may look cool (or not) but you cant see

[gwallis]

That looks like a great idea, but what about sticking on some 3M film with a bit of tint on it?

[Kerrath]

Who cares....everyone is socal doesnt know that their fuckin highs are on blinding everyone (or maybe just me). No ones really cares about the glare. At least not here.

I care, just can't do shit about it. Anything I could do would be illegal. Typically the people who leave their brights on are just dicks.

I agree, bumble bee headlights ftl.

[StereoInstaller1]

Wowzers. Black and yellow...how fucking gay.

Spraypaint your eyeballs next time.

Go buy a honda.

[turboeta]

Why not get a hardtop instead of a bitch car ?

I lol'd hard

[THATDONFC]

I just used a heat gun.

I also used RED silicone like a dumb ass on one side and now I have a red ring aroung one of my lights.....

Looks kinda cool but maybe if it was on both sides. lol

im stupiid.

[Kristeun]

^Yeah I did the same thing on one of them trying to get some paint off the chrome. Make sure you really mask it off well if you do it this way.

[brantleyr]

I can personally say I fucked up a pair of nice ellipsoids doing this a while back, except for I was a dumbass and put purple power in mine to CLEAN the lenses. The lenses got clean, but it also ate chrome reflectors away, thus resulting in the above. The light output is reduced. Could barely see one side of road. But to each their own I guess. I also live out in the country where bright lights are valued at night. Also, if your that determined to do this dont stick it in the damn oven. Use a heat gun and circle around edge for a few minutes.

[lifeiskaos]

just stick it in the oven and pop the lense off. its not hard

[THATDONFC]

Can I remove the reflector like thin on a smiley headlight? I don't want to delete the reflector. i just want to paint it. Looks a lot better that way IMO.