DIY: Headlight LED's and blackout

M1K3

Well finished it all. unfortunately with some problems that will result in reopening 1 of the lights ...tested the LED's before and after i sealed the light(worked good). once i put it all the together the bottom LED on the left headlight went out. also the light isnt as flush to car as i would like. the right headlight was perfect and ez (did it 2nd). but the left has given me all kinds of problems. Also the black out of fangs worked very nicely and looks good. thanks for diy it really helped a lot!!

M1K3

All finished. fixed and tweaked everything so its all good now. will have pics of it all soon. done on brilliant silver.

Caravanshaka

nice, definitely want to see pics!

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jookiyaya

that would be my mod real soon. nice thread!

SGTseanzie

Hell, once I get back from Iraq, I might roll over to Dallas, and have you do this for me;-)

I dont have the balls to try this.

CGMobile370Z

Great DIY man rep added

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Caravanshaka

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Cjanik

Just wanted to say, thanks to your writeup!






anybody doing this mod, I have a backup RH headlight that I purchased as "backup" in case I screwed anything up. I opened it up to make sure I know how to do it before opening my own, and then put it back together.

if anybody on here wants to do this mod, Let me know, I have that backup headlight with everything in it, its good to use as a example in case you forget where something goes, and then sell it to the next person for the same price. It was nice to have because I did resort back to it a couple times.

300obo + shipping (I paid 350).

schrute

That looks great! What paint did you use? Did you use the heat gun method?

I really need to do this mod...

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Cjanik

I used the oven method. I didnt have a heat gun in handy.

I personally think it is easier to take off the lense with a oven because it heats everything all at once instead of one spot at a time.

however, you want to take off as much glue as you can to help make it possible to put the lense back together, and a heat gun would have been a huge help in this part. the glue, when cold, is very hard and gummy.

I opted not to do LED's though.

I got the paint from automotivetouchup.com . I told them color K51, and they sent me a can of that stuff. (spray can). I also ordered the clear coat so the sun and heat wouldn't ruin the paint.

It took me about 8 hours to do the entire thing. (from pulling car into garage, to getting the bumper back on.)

nogoodname

lights look good Cj !!

dcrew1x

clean

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schrute

Thanks for the info. I have clear bra on my headlights and am not sure which method will be safer to avoid damaging the film.

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mywhite370z

Nice tail lights, what did you do to them? Did you powder coat your rimz?

schrute

^Thanks. Tinted tails and yes powdercoated rims. Lots of info in my journal, click on "My Z" below.

Now I need to work up the courage to bake my headlights open and paint them black too...

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