DIY: Headlight LED's and blackout

ONEighty

The thing with using hot glue is it'll melt right when you put them headlights in the oven... so it's pretty much useless. Epoxy or aluminum foil tape (has strong adhesive) works great.

pookienachos

W O W ! i dont have the guts to do this DIY though

Caravanshaka

He is exactly right, and you don't know til you pull them apart another time. I pulled mine open again to do the side-marker LED's to match instead of the Amber, and pulled all the hot glue out and used epoxy instead. I updated the DIY about a week or 2 ago to reflect that as well.

The aluminum foil tape is an interesting idea as well, never would have thought of that!

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dang370z

let me roll over to dallas and you can do mine for me
cause that is just a sick look im just to scared to do it

M1K3

Attempting this and fang blackout tonight. hope do be done by dawn. diy is very well done so im hopin it goes well..just nerve racking drilling and taking apart headlights!!

Caravanshaka

good luck M1K3!!! let us know how it turns out!

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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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