Changing the color of the headlight housing.

[S_Ranger]

I have a 95 talon tsi. It's midnight black and it looks sweet. Clutch is gone so I'm gonna do some home stuff to it until I get the money. I want to change the headlight housing from the clear reflective color to a black. How do I do that? I hear you take it out and get the high temp paint and 'bake' it in the oven. Is that right? If any one can list some descriptive instructions por favor. Thanks

 

[S_Ranger]

I have a 95 talon tsi. It's midnight black and it looks sweet. Clutch is gone so I'm gonna do some home stuff to it until I get the money. I want to change the headlight housing from the clear reflective color to a black. How do I do that? I hear you take it out and get the high temp paint and 'bake' it in the oven. Is that right? If any one can list some descriptive instructions por favor. Thanks

 

[1fast97gsx]

I'm wondering about this as well for my beater talon.

 

[pinder91]

Go here

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98500

Have fun!

 

[10minutecar]

Here ya go:

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98500&highlight=clear+corners

This was in the tech articles. I did this to my headlights, I took all the bulbs out and put them in the oven on 200-250ish degrees and it came right apart.

I have done this on mine and my friends headlights with no problems, it's just a pain to sand off all the little ribs on the housing.

 

[BacknBlack92ESi]

I painted my housings on my 96' Black. Changed the whole overall appearence of the car. I highly suggest it. Pictures are in my gallery. Or just look at my sig.

 

[Defiant]

Or just look at my sig.

Where he's also painted the ground, and a goodly portion of the sky.

 

[Danny_305]

what kind of paint do you use since the headlights to get hot when warm i dont want the paint chipping off

 

[BacknBlack92ESi]

Where he's also painted the ground, and a goodly portion of the sky.

Sorry. I'll change my sig.

 

[Defiant]

Ah, much better. And a nice pic, too

 

[xBOOSTx]

i don't know how many times i've posted this link, but here you go...

http://web.archive.org/web/20040311162716/http://www.auburn.edu/~fauchpj/headlight.htm

if you still can't get it, send me your headlights and i'll do it for a fee...

 

[Phya]

Honestly, you don't really need any sort of high temp paint. Maybe it's just because i haven't driven more than 4 hours with my headlights on, or something like that, but I have had no trouble with Krylon Fusion.