is it doable to paint the the headlight housing to match the body color rather then keeping it the gray? just curious as i love the look of the ferrari's and new vettes in which the lights seem to jump out because they are surrounded by matching paint rather than a black/gray. anyone do this? pics? didn't turn up anything in a search.

 

Yes, it can be done. A couple of the guys in the NY Metro forum have done this. Billman250 & BlueMonde on Silverstone. Nibble has done it on NFR.

 

I have a set of inserts for sale ~$70 shipped. By a spare set, get them painted and then install the painted ones minimizing "downtime".

LMK

If "search" worked better you would have gotten hits.

 

awesome! exactly what i was looking for. don't suppose anyone's got it in Spa out there?

 

Yup, if you want to do it yourself, here are some of the things you need:
Colormatched paint, you should have an autmotive paint shop around:

Sprayer for the colormatched paint:

Clearcoat:

Place to paint:

And here's how mine turned out, did it on my own:

 

Very nice mod to do.

 

Plenty of painted headlights on the West Coast, too!






...and taillights!





-Pete

 

silver and black might look okay, but i don't know about spa yellow.........

 

another sebring for ya....but in the midwest!

 

How do you open up the headlights, do you guys cook them or what????????