Hey guys, i'm going to be removing my yellow diffusers from my headlights this weekend and was thinking of painting the "black bezel" thats located inside the headlight. I did this on my last car and it looked really cool with body-color. Has anyone done this before? is the black-bezel part easily removable or is it stuck to something?

Does anyone have a interior breakdown of the headlights?

thanks!

 

yes, this has been done before. If you do a search you will find a some pics on it.

 

i've done searches but they take forever and i can't find anything with "painting headlights".

Also i'm looking for pics of headlights with no diffusers in them on a silverstone? anyone have one bookmarked? otherwise i'll continue searching. thanks.

 

Check with "oatnet".........J.D.

His suzuka has them done and they look sweet!!!

 

I've done this. PM me for any info you want. Do not use a wet towel, the humidity it creates in the oven can damage the paint and clear-coat. I used paper grocery bags, it worked fine.


Here's where the humidity completely screwed the paint, it took forever to sand-repaint this light.


Use some plastic adhesive spray and sand the chrome off if you want to paint over that, I'm getting some flaking of the paint and will have to go in there and sand/repaint them both.

 

thats perfect! just what i wanted to see! Thanks!

Before i used 300grit sandpaper, spray-primer and spray-body-color paint.

It looked pretty good after 2years on my '03 tiburon.

Has anyone just removed the yellow diffuser and not replaced it with a clear one? anything against this? does it look bad?

 

wow that looks hot. Anyone have pics of an NFR with that done? Is it easy to apply the paint and how do you do it? I'd probably just want to get it done at a shop?

 

Leaving it with no diffuser is common as well, it looks fine, particularly on black.

I painted them myself, otherwise it can cost a bit to get it done professionally.

The can of mixed paint (which matched silverstone wonderfully) cost about $35.


Now, because this is custom mix paint, it doesn't usually come in an aerosol, but for a measly $6 I got this:

It's a CO2 based sprayer that you fill with your own paint, pretty sweet.

Now, because the part doesn't get direct wind/rock/touching, I used a prepack aerisol clear coat:

This isn't as nice as hardening clear-coat, but it works great, you honestly can't tell I didn't have it done professionally AND mixing clear-coat is a bitch because you have to do it yourself right before you use it.

Here's some outdoor shots of my finished product in sunlight:

 

And yes, I'm willing to speak with a representative about hand modeling.

 

Personal opinion: The metallic colors look great, but with the gloss colors (NFR, Rio, & Spa) it turns out a little "cheap" looking. GPW- It's a toss-up.