How to paint your headlights DIY
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- čas přidán 3. 12. 2019
- In this video I paint the Nav headlights. Finally getting rid of that chrome by painting them in a black pearl.
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Links to items used.
Primer
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Paint
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Clear
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Scuff pads
vgautopaints.com.au/products/...
Sealer
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You nailed that! What a difference! Well done!
I really love how the metallics shine in the light in the headlights
Your videos are very clear and precise, with excellent attention to detail. Excellent work, just subbed!
Much better. Brings back the love I had for the Rexy!
I remember this done on the wrx video. So much effort.. Good job.
That is just beautiful!
Looks good. Great stuff as usual
My aunt will kill me if i put my headlight in oven 🤣🤣🤣
LOL!
@@ashantiradix 😅
Great great job looks fab 👏👏
Love the content really thinking of doing mine now, cheers mate
Kudos, not many gun guys would have the balls to delve into retrofit territory like that.
Thing is with your videos as awesome as they are you make the most fiddly jobs look so simple lol
Man that is Gold! 👍👍👍
Worlds better!! I’m lucky that all my vehicles had already come with colored headlights, but I had a old civic that I had wondered if this could be done to. Great video!! Thank you for sharing!
Looks good mate, did this on my old corolla and made it much meaner looking
More content please. Love it
Holy mate that's a lot of work but looks so much better!
im not normally a fan of black anything, but you make it look good
aussie channel ! subbed!
edit:that box oven trick was awesome ! great idea
Looks a lot better than if you had just gone with blacked-out lens covers. Great job!
That's...how you lose brightness. Which is what headlights are for!
Excellent video
Love this video
Nice work brother
Nice video homeboy that's hard-core Gangstas paradise. I want to learn as much from you as I can I love diy garage much ♥️ from west Hollywood
Holy shit I would have scrapped the whole project once I knew an oven was involved..good on you!
I was intimidated at first but one day I had my headlight level adjuster broke off and it would not pass inspection so I figured if i have to buy a new one might as well play with this scrap one first and I was surprised how easy it came apart I epoxy glued the adjuster back together and resealed with the same glue it already had on there and it has no leaks no nothing passed the inspection and works just fine still, I didnt use an oven either just an electric house room heater radiator thing, it doesnt take much
It’s actually very easy, I’ve done it with no oven just a heat gun but I recommend using the oven, it doesn’t damage the headlight
Yep it is just about getting it up to temp, to soften.
You DO NOT need an Oven guys. Use a heat gun to melt the glue. Thank me later. I repeat DO NOT USE AN OVEN
But then you cook food in there
Thanks so much for the tip. I've tried painting the inside fitting of headlight. However, under extreme heat, the paint melts and caused some really bad overlapping blisters. I'm in the process of re-doing it and will try to follow your advice.
Curious if you have any updates on how headlight held up all these years?
Awesome job alot of work but looks really cool
Looks good does give it a more aggressive look to it now
Hahaha, you got that fly good and proper with that clear ...
Glad to know 1K paint will work. I would have worried about heat damage (lamps get real hot during operation).
Not watched it all, because I`m trawling the Net for detail on chrome paint for vintage reflector lenses.....but don`t LED bulbs run cool?
Beautiful car!
I jist wonder how that tinted clear sticks to a reflector long term, because that would be my go to
Did you also scuff and spray adhesion promoter on the chrome around the projector and blinke, that you black chromed with tinted clear?
definitely doing this to my jeep grand cherokee
can you use any acryllic based paint for painting your headlights? and can you use black 3.0, the darkest available paint to paint the headlights or would that make the light darker? is metallic paint inside the headlights better for the chrome reflectors?
Hey, I am going to redo my headlights, and one of them is really bad, so i got to remove the entire UV Coating of it. Should I use transparent plastic primer before applying Clear coat?
Did you have to use a hight temperature resistant paint?
mate that glue looks like a headache good work end result was awesome
How's the headlights so far? no moisture build up from the inside?
Those parts that you tinted with the clear base coat, did you have to scuff it up and spray adhesion promoter first?
I found wax & grease remover works great for removing butyl glue if you're a messy person like me
Hi can you tell me. In your opinion what is the best mini gun for the money...Thanks
Hey mate, I can't find the tinted clear you used on the chrome projector. Is there a brand/type you recommend or was it a custom mix from VG as well?
Your vids are great I only did the same thing to my np coz I saw your vid
What tape did you use for the chrome reflector? I want to paint my headlights but the reflector for the turn signal is attatched to the bezel so I'm going to have to tape off the reflector but I don't want the tape to peel up the chrome
Hey mate, do you have a shops or anything, that you do these mods for people?
does has to be an electric oven or ut cane be a fire oven??
Man, that looks OEM! Do you get people asking where you got those headlights from?
What the clear whit dark on it is on description?
Did you end up doing the chrome trim under the windows? Looking to do the same to mine!?
Does anyone know if this reduces visibility
Way better 👍
Nice video bro just dun
Mine cool mod 😎😍
Hey mate do you have a list of all the products you used for prepping, painting and finishing? Thanks
Jacob O'Driscoll yeah man check the description
Happy New years
BRIAN THOMPSON thanks.. happy new year.
I have blacked out headlights but on the side marker lights the light bulb socket or plug is white in sticks out like a sore thumb how can I paint black or does someone sell a back plug for that 95 Chevy Tahoe
your link for sealant is another link for the scrub pads..
this is gloss black paint or matte black?
Did you place the heatgun on a flammable product?
Lens might look good with a flat 2k clear.
Much better
Where r u located do u do headlights n taillights I have clear taillights with chrome inside but I want them lime green inside n the inside of the headlights not the projector part just the outer inside if u can do it let me know n how much my drivers taillights has condensation in it not sure why think its the seal I dried it with a dryer but it keeps fogging up n unfogging can I fix it n paint them pls let me know ty
Is the headlight interior chrome to deflect light properly an painting these parts effect headlight beam performance?
Tim Barnett no I also mentioned the new cars have this blacked out from factory
Same lights. 👍
@@WeekendWarriors87 yeah i did it on my motorcycle (on purpose), its work, still bouncing the light, but its not looking good when light is on. So yeah, dont do that
Parts of the chrome-look are "working" areas that reflect light (directly behind the bulbs for example), but it's okay to paint 'non working' areas, like the surround of a projector. I'm doing a similar project at the moment as a mini series and am going into quite deep detail if you want to take a look.
Looks better with chrome. Looked more stylish. The black looks like the cheap model. Downgrading the truck
Roast headlights for xmas eve
Hi can this be reversed if i wasn't happy with the finish?
Looks awesome but I’m pretty sure the seal is there for a reason and by breaking the factory seal won’t that allow moisture to get in and fuck em up completely!
Yeah I did reseal it back together
@@customspraymods I wanted to do that to my Subaru but I wasn’t game enough, good video going to do some work to my hilux. Thanks
@@michaelgrech3158 I have a video doing it to my Subaru
Noice
Where you been Dave? lol
What's the reason to use spray can instead of a gun?
Антон Южаков just for fun. Less clean up. Same result. DIY friendly
Something about putting it in the oven makes me very nervous.
Good tips but I cannot lie when I say I laughed rather hard when I saw you put the heat gun into a carboard box and support it with a red can that says FLAMABLE in big letters and has a picture of fire!
why it sound like mighty car mods??
Just something you need to know: that is not chrome you are painting. It is aluminium applied to plastic parts by vapour deposition. It's an awfully long time since headlight reflectors were actually chrome! the part you painted completely black you could have put through the dishwasher to remove the aluminium and then painted the virgin plastic (usually PC, sometimes UP - look for the code on the part). Either method id valid though and arguably the aluminium is a bettter surface to spray to than most plastics.
looks a lot better after though!
Wait so you can do this that means we can pay you to do this because honestly stuffed i can be bothered
Lol. Its a win win solution, right? 😅
Bro, now buy a Hilux and teach us how to paint that thing too
Super safe put the heatergun above a flammable liquid can. LMAO
It's fine dude chillax
Its tape
Sitting a heat gun on flammable liquid stickytape..pointing into a cardboard box, what could possibly go wrong
1pd I have half a bottle of water on the bench just in case. Haha
@@customspraymods All good mate haha, enjoyed the video..keep up the good work
All you had to do is dip the chrome parts in grease remover for 5 minutes. Will strip it right down to the shiny black plastic, no need to paint
That emblem needs to be blacked out
Base models got black trimmings lol
Ha ha, yeah, that's because it's not actually chrome. It's aluminium applied by vapour deposition for a chrome-look and highly reflective surface (for the 'working' surfaces of the lights. When the individual plastic parts are being made it is actually cheaper to paint them black than apply aluminium, hence 'base' cars getting black and higher trim levels getting chrome-look.
AND DONT GET ANY OF THAT STICKY ON THE INSIDE OF THE LENS,BEAR TO GET OFF.
😅😅
I also don't like Chrome. Did my chrome delete on my front grille and rear the other day. Not as pro as you but the car looks much better and different
Massive pain in the ass and very stressful .
I hate the overuse of chrome... old Mustang, maybe... 57 Chevy, definitely... anything newer than 1975, why?!
Headlight reflectors are not chrome. It is aluminium applied to the plastic by vapour deposition. Obviously, the "working" surfaces have to be shiny reflective but otherwise, I agree about the overuse of chrome / chrome-look. I've got to replace the projectors in my headlights, so I'm doing a mini-series about the job, including a little modest customisation with both black and body colour.
You forgot to say make sure you have another pair of headlights just in case boo-boos
Wow what a vid difference. It looked soooooooooooo ugly in chrome
Be careful recommending people melt sealer to split headlights mate.
Get them to research their car first.
I have an e93 LCI that i want to do this to, but they actually plastic weld the lenses on the LCI headlights, and trying this will likely have people melting their 1000 pound uk (each side) headlights if they dont know that.
Mine have to be dremeled off and then replaced with new lenses stuck on.
Its. A right. F*ck on...
Tester Hamsticle thanks. they can probably withstand 10 minutes in the oven still.
@@customspraymods oh yeah ten minutes wont hurt im just thinking of "The Public". If it doesnt work in 10 mins some might be tempted to try a bit longer.
The guy who clued me up on my bmw headlights (and quoted me about 6-700 quid to do it all for me, to indicate how difficult mine are to seperate) said he gets quite alot of this style light that are actually melted for just that reason.
Still class vid tho, I want to matt black my entire headlight, and then put a light smoke tint so a bit like net curtains, the emitted light is legal you cant see anything in the light so it looks really blacked out. :)
NSW police now on the lookout for every kid who's been spraying the inside of their headlight lenses..... bad idea...... i get it looks better and you may think you have avoided a fine by interpreting a law a certain way..... but cops dont care.... and the fine doesnt care..... this is a video for non street driven cars..... and i challenge anyone to debate that painting your headlights is legal.
Hey mate I put in an image of the same car that comes from factory with the headlights black just like mine. It not illegal at all. 👍
Im sure if you are spraying your reflectors then yes you will be fined. but spray painting aesthetics bits in your lens would not be illegal. I have spray painted my reflector lens and retrofitted my halogens with hid projectors similar to mickshidretrofit and had no issues with rbt and even pass my pink slips
customspraymods if thats the case why did you just not buy them factory ?
Tom Noogasaki all turn a blind eye thats why and you give all those people money thats all they care about in this country of corruption where when they do enforce things they do it badly , and anyway are you one of these guys on the road that blinds everybody ? If you are its not nice what you are up to
Michael Wilson it wasn’t available when I was buying the car.
You talk funny I can't really see anything