Headlight question
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Headlight question
I've had my truck since thanksgiving and decided it was time to do some personalization and the first thing on my list is knocking off the chrome. My plan is to have the grill painted to match the truck (blue jeans), bumpers done in line-x along with the rocker panels/wheel wells.
The one thing I can't seem to find are blacked out headlights (not the lens). I'm not really interested in the aftermarket projector style or LED lights but a simple black surround vice chrome would be nice.
I've played with the idea of heating the entire assemblies in the oven to disassemble and pint to match but not sure I want to do that just yet.
With that said does anyone know of anyplace who may have these?? Any help would be much appreciated.
The one thing I can't seem to find are blacked out headlights (not the lens). I'm not really interested in the aftermarket projector style or LED lights but a simple black surround vice chrome would be nice.
I've played with the idea of heating the entire assemblies in the oven to disassemble and pint to match but not sure I want to do that just yet.
With that said does anyone know of anyplace who may have these?? Any help would be much appreciated.
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Paint doesn't stick to chrome or metalilzed plastic that great. You might be better off finding an XT/XLT black grill painted and XL/XLT black bumper to cover with line-x.
You can probably sell your bumper and grill with a few coins left over to acquire the above items.
Headlights....no clue...sorry
You can probably sell your bumper and grill with a few coins left over to acquire the above items.
Headlights....no clue...sorry
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Paint doesn't stick to chrome or metalilzed plastic that great. You might be better off finding an XT/XLT black grill painted and XL/XLT black bumper to cover with line-x. You can probably sell your bumper and grill with a few coins left over to acquire the above items. Headlights....no clue...sorry
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I've always wanted to tone down the chrome inside these headlight housings and if I ever got serious about it I would absolutely buy the housings from a scrap/salvage yard.
To do it really well is going to take time and effort, neither of which is available when they are removed from your daily driver. If you don't drive it every day I'd still have a redundant pair. From what I can tell the process could easily turn them to junk with one slight wrong move.
Good luck and keep us posted.
To do it really well is going to take time and effort, neither of which is available when they are removed from your daily driver. If you don't drive it every day I'd still have a redundant pair. From what I can tell the process could easily turn them to junk with one slight wrong move.
Good luck and keep us posted.
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I painted the headlights, bumper, and grille surround and plasti-dipped the center bars.
Baking the headlights required some mental preparation, but once I got started, it wasn't that bad.
So far, everything is holding up very good.
Baking the headlights required some mental preparation, but once I got started, it wasn't that bad.
So far, everything is holding up very good.
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