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    Senior Member Three Rings i3oricua's Avatar
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    Blacked Out my Headlights

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    Well, this weekend/week I decided to change all my bulbs out and the DRL's had be changed from the inside of the headlight housing. So since I was opening them up I decided to try and black the interior of the housing out. I really just painted two parts of each headlight which worked out really well once I had all the tools I needed. First you have to follow the Clear Corner Mod tutorial to get the headlights apart. When you have them apart you'll need a very hard to find (at least for me it was for some reason):

    1. T8 - Torx screwdriver or socket
    2. T40 - Torx screwdriver or socket ( I could be wrong about this size, the T8 I'm sure of.)
    3. Some black spray of your choice
    4. Time

    From the headlight housing you'll remove (2) two T40 (or whatever size they are screws and that piece slides out:


    This one is recessed a little bit


    Then you'll remove the (3) three T8 screws from the lens and that part will slide out



    Then you paint, I chose this spray to use which worked out fine.


    Just remember this isn't hairspray so short quick sprays to keep it even and from blotting up should help. Also, if you do end up with blotted spots you can sand down with high grit sand paper and respray.




    Finished results:







    Any spots you see on the finished result is the lens being dirty or a reflection. It all came out really clean. I thought about going with a bright red but would have been hard to match my red so I just kept the blacked out theme going.

    I hope this helps someone because I continued asking around how some people did it and no one gave me a response so I took a chance and tried it on my own. Good luck to the next person.
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    wow man that looks sick, didn't think it was that easy.. looks like the next project for me!
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    where were you when i had my HIDs apart? lol
    lookin good man, definately a good mod.

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Looks great on your car, nice work!

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    looks great

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Very nice.
    Good work.
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    nice, i like the finished product. Originally I was against blacking out my headlights but that might change now lol.

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Quote Originally Posted by flath12 View Post
    wow man that looks sick, didn't think it was that easy.. looks like the next project for me!
    Its not as easy as it looks unless you are really familiar with removing the bumper. When I did it I had to stop because I was too afraid to put the lights in the oven lol. But we tested it on my friends RSX-S first and it went extremely well even though it is 10000000 times easier to remove the headlights on his car.
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Sick. I would have done this but my car is black.

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Damn...that looks fantastic!

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Wow, I really, really, really like the end result.

    That's saying a lot btw as I'm not the biggest fan of the B7 front end.
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    looks really good!
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    looks really nice!!
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Looks very nice! Also, I just wanted to tell anyone that is afraid to put their headlight housing into the oven...

    You don't have to if you're afraid to. It is 100% safe if you follow the directions, but I joey mod'd my VW Golf headlights and pried off the lens just by heating with a blow dryer. An oven is much easier, but 10 minutes with a blow dryer on HOT and prying with a small flathead will get the lens off also.

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Looks great btw....you got me thinking of doing the same, well that and the orange corners are just getting uglier by the minute. ;]

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Looks good
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    any pics from further away??? more of a frontal view??

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Quote Originally Posted by Tgr_Clw View Post
    Wow, I really, really, really like the end result.

    That's saying a lot btw as I'm not the biggest fan of the B7 front end.
    i concur.

    looks sharp.

    nice work - a lot of people are going to be asking you about this and trying it now.

    i wonder how it would look if you ditched the amber signals and got a blackout grille...
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    i like the emo b7 look! lol jk, the blackened housing looks awesome, gj!

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Looks SICK.. i might have to do this when i do my xenon retrofit...
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Quote Originally Posted by toaster View Post
    i wonder how it would look if you ditched the amber signals and got a blackout grille...
    i have blue lights as the turnsignals i think it looks awsome ill try to post a pic later b/c photobucket isnt working right now

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Do you think the paint will bubble or peel from the heat of the lights?
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    Quote Originally Posted by matttl16 View Post
    i have blue lights as the turnsignals i think it looks awsome ill try to post a pic later b/c photobucket isnt working right now
    do you have the same kind of black headlights and black grille?
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Good work! Wish I had done this when I was doing the clear corner mod last weekend. Too late now.

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Nice work! I must have dust inside my lights because they are nowhere near as clear as yours.
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Quote Originally Posted by A4B7GA View Post
    Do you think the paint will bubble or peel from the heat of the lights?
    It won't. HID's (xenon) are much cooler than a conventional filament-style bulb too. I wouldn't worry about the paint fading/cracking/bubbling at all.

    I had the entire housing done on my Mk4 Golf for a good couple years, it was fine.

    Glad cling wrap because Mk4 chrome was cheap and peeled off with painters tape


    I painted freakin everything


    Done and installed




    Didn't mean to thread jack in any way, I'm just trying to tell everyone how easy this is and there is nothing to worry about once it's done. Happy modding

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    nice mod!!!!!

    does it work with normal halogeen lamps also?
    They produce more heat you know
    how about making the lamps back waterproof???????
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    looks great... would you consider that matte black paint the same as flat black?

    im doing the same thing to my b6... just wondering... did you clear coat as well? or no need too?

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Looks good, nice to see some detailed pics on a halogen housing, I need to man up and do mine now. Did you put some silicone on the housing to prevent them fogging up?

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Looks awesome! I've been planning on doing this same mod from day one of getting my Avant. I might attempt it in the next couple of weeks.

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Thanks for all the compliments. I didn't use high temp paint, I meant to, I even thought that's what I picked up but the kids were running around messing with stuff so I didn't notice what I had used until after I had sprayed them. If it does bubble up then I'll take them apart again, sand them down and respray with high temp. I didn't clear coat, not saying you can't, but it was more of a flat black than a matte. I couldn't decide what black to go with so I just stuck with flat so I could change it if I wanted to later. I've taken the headlight housing apart quite a few times now because of that stupid T8 torx screw - I finally got it right so that's when I finally sprayed it all down. Everything can be broken down further if you want to spray everything like Phrost did, but there are some really hard to reach screws in there so I'll leave that to someone else. I found it worked out best for me with the oven at 200F for about 6-7 minutes, especially for the reassembly. Then I took the back side of a screw driver and ran it around the seam of the housing where the glue is to push it together and spread the paste/silicone back out. ALL the bulbs are the Hoen bulbs, low beams, high beams, fogs, corners, city lights (which the city's BTW if you order from Hoen HAVE to be installed by removing the lens of the headlight assembly.)

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Good info! There is enough silicone the housing, so nobody needs to buy more if they do this mod. Just make sure to heat it up again slightly, so it gets all gooey and makes a good seal.

    As far as color, it's whatever your preference is. My A4 is black so I'll be doing gloss black with clear coat, but you could just do flat black with no clear depending on what finish you want.

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    looks Awesome!
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Looks great!

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    ya i have the same lights but photobucket wont allow me to upload pics... but if you go look on photopucket my account is http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n223/matttl16/

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    Looking hot

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Quote Originally Posted by i3oricua View Post
    (which the city's BTW if you order from Hoen HAVE to be installed by removing the lens of the headlight assembly.)
    Thanks for all the info but you don't have to remove the assembly to install Hoen Citylights, I did it on mine just fine. You might mean the turn signal bulbs.....

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    looks good

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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    More pics please
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    Re: Blacked Out my Headlights

    Quote Originally Posted by grizzles View Post
    Thanks for all the info but you don't have to remove the assembly to install Hoen Citylights, I did it on mine just fine. You might mean the turn signal bulbs.....
    The turn signal bulbs were easy to after I got the headlight assembly off, but the city lights (the little ones in the top middle of the housing would not go in from the back. Maybe I had a pair that was shaped different but I could not squeeze them through the opening to put them in.

    HID:
    I'll get more pictures up when there's some daylight out which will be tomorrow. Its already darkened up here.
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