Its all about black and white... white housing headlamps

Its all about black and white... white housing headlamps

well i was planning on opening my headlights today and painting them black... then i remebered my white rims and thought hey that would look good white so i did it and i like it allot!!! heres some pics and go to my cardomain page for more.

Wow this looks really good, i like it Good Job.

Thats what I am planning to do, plus a projector retro fit...you beat me to the punch. Hope i can get mine done soon, just planning to do the the retro fit and a couple of things painted at the same time so im waiting. Looks cool.

looks good. something a little off the path. great job.

you did the "bake them apart" trick i assume, how'd that work?

looks different....

could you please post larger pics?

yes i did bake them... it worked really well actually.. a lil hot and goowy at first but they come right apart. the hardest part of the whole thing was waiting for the paint to dry so i could put em on and see how they looked. definately an easy mod tho.. should be in the DIY i think

doesn't it make it harder to see you when u signal? at least during teh day?

hot long and how hot did you bake them?

ohh ya, how well does the turn signal look/work since you painted that part white too?

heres 4 larger pics... takes forever to upload that why i didnt post em b4.

no i have those silverstar turn signals so they are still really bright even during the day.

you dont really bake em... you heat the oven to 300 and then turn it off and stick em in for 10-15 mins. then pull em out and pry em apart with your fingers, paint em, and do the oposite put em in the stove in the 2 parts and after 10-15 mins stick em back together if your carfull taking em apart you wont need any sealer to stick em back together. i let the paint dry all night but probably bout 2 hours of actual work to do this.. only because i took the bumpercover off to get the headlights out easier.

here some pics of what the turnsignal bulbs look like with the running lights on...

dude very origional, i must say this one mod made your rolla one of my top favs. the turn signal/parking lights look even better i think.

thats cool looking, i admit before i saw the pics, i was doubtful. but you did a great job!

i agree. that's very original and i like it a lot. very unique. i didn't think it would look that good at first but when i saw how they looked...i was impressed. keep up the good work.

looks great...........I'm gonna head on down to brunswick this Saturday, weather permitting, will i get to see them in person?

probably not this saturday... ill be working till 9:30 and everyone skips outa there by then... ill be going up there next saturday tho. i posted a thing in the reginal forum about goin up there on the 22nd so lemme know if your interested.

Quickly ctsire13!! i wanna see White on white. This looks easy enough that maybe ill do it too .

WOAH! I'm speechless...
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I was waiting to paint them with a body kit, but Jae's still is not out yet so I will paint them with my altezzas (painting the chrome part on them white as well...I hope it all looks good, it will definately be different. Ohh yeah when I do the projectors I plan to do my own angel eyes too. I hope to get it done in a weeks time or so.

i bet they will look awsome on a white car.... my next project is gonna be figuring out how to open them fog light to make em match... any ideas?

pretty sure you could open em the same way...............looks like the same kind of adhesive to me.

hope they do open up and work the same, I plan to do those too

Ya nice work there. Your car looks very good.

i tried to open them the same way... it doesnt seem to work. the glue seems to be different and not come apart even after heating it up. maybe higher temp or something??? what do you think?

i did black housing but you did a much better job then me

schoat333, i meant to ask...what kind of paint did you use, brand?, high gloss?, clear coat?, etc.

i used duplicolor low gloss engine paint. no clear or anything cause i didnt want em to be shiney.

Here are my white headlights on white...I screwed up the projector mod; it was way to difficult to aim and mount correctly. I also did WHITE altezzas tell me what you guys think. Sorry about the crapy pics...I'll get better ones hopefully before next weekend.



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