Has anybody painted their headlight housings?
 

Post pics if you have please... i'm considering painting mine black for a summer project. I think it would make the max look more "retro" kinda like the new mazda 6's headlights...

Just a thought.

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Thats KCMC582's car. Is that what you mean by painted housing? I was also looking to do it to mine soon. It look HAWT!

That pic looks like the ebay headlights that come like that. At least that is what it appears to look like. I would really like to do this myself, but I know how hot headlight housing can get and I would hate for it to ruin the paint later on. My max is majestic blue and I would like to do this when I put my dde's in. Can we buy can's of our factory paint? I was assuming I would have to take it to a body shop and have them do it. It would be teh saix, kinda reminds me of the 360 modena's headlights. I've also considered painting the taillight housings body color to match with all red lenses. From what I've heard the housings for the tails are a PITA to get apart and back together properly sealed.

mass media... that's exactly what i'm talking about... do you know how KCMC did it? any writeups?

I agree that sh*t looks amazing... i'd really love to see it on my silver

Mine are painted black.
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That is a really nice max....I love the headlights. But just one question, where are all of his rock chips? lol

I smoked mine.
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more pics.
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Any write ups? What did you use?

i would love to know materials used as well. thanks

Anyone have pics of black on a sheer silver?

ive been lookin to do this as well, ive searched other forums for what to use as paint, the plastic krylon paint is what people use to paint them, it sticks on plastic real well. and the color i like is the metallic black.

Just take your headlights apart (I like the oven method), tape off any parts you dont want painted and spray away.

I sanded down my surrounds a bit before painting to help adheasion.

Pretty straight forward process really.

I followed Housecor's write up in taken apart headlights. Then to smoke them I used Tamiya smoke paint. Same paint used on R/C car bodies to tint windows.
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/tam/tam86031.htm

nice looking headlights. I am thinking of painting mine as well, but for different reasons. I am doing a HID projector retrofit on my 2nd gen and I don't want any light being scattered by hitting my stock reflectors, since bezels wouldn't fit in my housing.

That is who I was thinking of, they look great.

easily one of the best maximas on the org.

Painting your housings will make your DDE's less jewel like. I did mine and I like it (aggressive looking), but I am ready for a change and am going to do another set without painting them.

I HAVE A HOW TO ON NYCMAXIMAS 5TH GEN PAGE!
http://forums.nycmaximas.org/showthread.php?t=7249

Guys I know this is off the subject from the smoked Headlights a bit, but where do you get the material you used to clear out the turn signal lenses as well? Are there pics for how-tos on that? Last question, sorry I am trying to get everything in on one Reply :gapteeth:. Where can I get the best deal on a new set of Headlamps? I would like to invest in a new (SO FRESH AND SO CLEAN) pair to try these changes on.

WOW you guys are allsome! Nice pics "upstatemax" and bugbit77 Nice How-to man I hope to get the chance to use it.


Thanks

I would really like to see a body color painted headlight on an 02-03 that is glossy paint not flat black like most others. If it were majestic blue and with DDE's that would be really sweet too =). Can we buy cans of factory paint, is there a close aftermarket match that I can use from a local auto-parts store? This is the thread I've been waiting for to install my dde's while clearing the turn signal and painting the housing at the same time. Only if I had projectors in there too. Every 5.5 gen owners dream. :lolrun:

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I just got an extra set of headlights (fellow org member) and was gonna do the whole AE thing but then this thread got me thinking of painting them my car is the light blue color.What do you guys think? Has anyone painted the inside the color of there car?

Nathan how did you get your grill like that? That looks sexy as hell!

If you go to paradox-systems.com they can sell you factory matched paint to do your headlights.

I was thinking of the same thing, but ended up painting them balck... I love it!

im about to get that done on my car which is pearl white.........ive painted my old stock 00 lights white just to get a look of how well they will look and here are pics:thumbsup: ...........i have 2k2-2k3 HIDs now which i will be painting factory color matched as well as clearing out the amber lens and putting in the DDE's:run: :run:
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will have a pic of these headlight on once i get the PaintDDeAmberout project going.....

I simply popped off the nissan emblem, did a fair amount of dremeling to remove all of the small fins. Then used bondo & fibreglass cloth to fill in the missing areas. Sanded, primed & painted it a matt black. Thanks for the compliment!

i painted mine body color you can look on my cardomain to see pics

Wow, I must say your ride is still so clean. Great shots too!

How do you get the light apart

Search the stickies under the How-2 section for instructions.