2007 Headlight painting
 

Has any one taken apart a 07-08 headlight housing to paint it, and if so how does it look now??

I have, twice to be exact

Here's how my headlight look now
http://i816.photobucket.com/albums/z...oto-82-1-1.jpg
http://i816.photobucket.com/albums/z...oto-83-1-1.jpg

Before:
http://gi157.photobucket.com/groups/...L/DSCI1610.jpg

After:
http://gi168.photobucket.com/groups/...H/DSCI1786.jpg

did you use niteshades?

is that just one coat?

You gonna plastidip them :laugh::laugh:. Use high heat paint inside your heads, at least that's what I used.

You can use high temp paint OR you can use krylon fusion, Duplicolor, Rustoleum, etc. Make sure you apply 3 coats of each (primer, base coat, and clear coat) and you should be good.

oh :laugh::laugh:. good one!!! you so fuuuunnyyyyyy

Gotta correct myself. With the Krylon Fusion, you don't need primer. Just spray it on, sand it in between coats and clear it. Easiest out of the three to use. Looks pretty good too. Here's a pic of one of my earlier designs:

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/a...8-12195405.jpg

This is NOT what it looks like now though....

hey how difficult is the taking the head lights off the car? particularly the passenger side... im planning on doing it but i want to know what im going to be in for.

Just remove the bumper, I can do it in like 10mins

It's easy as hell. I'll pm you with all the info you will ever need on this subject.

sweet

http://forums.maxima.org/6th-generat...ml#post8070852

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...6-03132054.jpg

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...6-03132103.jpg

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...6-03194738.jpg

Not as easy as ricing the car out with plastidip.

do you have more pics of the headlights this way? kinda what i have been thinking for my car. do you guys just paint right over the yellow lens?

Yup, here's a couple more pics:

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/a...8-12200346.jpg
http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/a...9-03132338.jpg
http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/a...8-12195425.jpg
http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/a...9-18154236.jpg

If you mean the sidemarker than all I did was scuff it up with some 800 grit wet/dry sandpaper, primed it with some Duplicolor Adhesive Promoter and painted it.

Also, if your gonna use Krylon Fusion than you don't have to sand it at all. Just spray it and finish it with some clear coat. Easy as pie.

I went way darker with mine but it was easy. Front and rear was a 3 hour job not including dry time. Im not sure the brand of paint my buddy used but we learned not to use reducer in it. Thinner works better and wont cause that spider web like cracking that reducer can do to plastic.

pics?

Will get some taken. I have a gold max and the headlights are almost a rootbeer color in the sun. Taillights are blacked out.

I work in the country so dont mind the dirty car. Also need to buff the lights to finish up. But I like how they look.
http://http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...Headlight2.jpg
http://http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...Headlight1.jpg
http://http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/.../Taillight.jpg

All lights are painted

That looks GOOD man. Think it's the first one I've seen on the forums in that color with painted headlights. Like how the tails came out too.

Thanks. I wasnt real excited about the gold color, looked like grandma's car. After some tint and painted lights it made a huge difference. Now gonna work on getting rims and doing the rain strips black like I saw on this forum.

Well, it goes good with the color of your car after you slightly tinted it. Honestly only seen one person that kind of went that route but he painted his pebble peach instead.

Looking forward to seeing an update man. You should make a build thread or something. It'll be a nice change of pace on this forum.

Wow thanks for all the replies.. Is it pretty simple to pull the HL assembly out and disassemble it??

I was also thinking of doing some Iron Man LEDs, but i hve found some that i believe i could flush mount, so they don't stick out like nipples..LOL..

Can i hit you up for some info on that subject too??

Yeah, it's hella easy. The only issue that people have would be re-sealing and getting the proper seal. Which isn't really hard at all. You just have to make sure to take precautions and do it right.

As for the iron man. There's a LOT of things that can go wrong with that mod. Bulbs going out during the modification process. Or a few months down the line for example. Which is why I didn't do it myself.

Yeah man, you can hit me up whenever you have any questions about this mod. I can walk you through the whole thing. It really isn't as hard as some make it out to be. You just have to be patient with it.

Looks great! just seal it up properly.