pupil george

ok i searched and read every topic and diy on this but i need to find out oen hting when u pu them in the oven do u pu tthem on anythign or jsut set them in the oven by themselfs

jkob2k1

The headlights should come off easy without heating them when i did mine i just cut the silicone with a razor. Are you doing the oem headlights or projectors?

Mr.Modify

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do you have a 04? if so yea those things are hard to get open but what i did instead was use a blow dryer to heat them up at one point of the lights and started prying with a screwdriver.......but yea to answer your question....just stick em in there maybe with like a pan under it.

pupil george

thanks alot i have a 03

Honda2k4

those things are a btich to get apart

SiG

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i did mine this past weekend, and i too have a 2003
I put them on a pizza tray, at 200 degrees celcius for 50 seconds

they werent too hot when i took them out. then, i pryed the lights apart. it was black sealant that was holding the lights together

Then i sanded off the chrome, and painted the sanded parts with a flat black, heat resistant paint. If ya wanna ask any more questions, feel free to PM me and ill gladly help ya out.

If ya wanna see pics of how they turned out, check them out at
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/691719

jkob2k1

You dont really have to sand off chrome just clean surface really good with rubbing alcohol and paint.

Mr.Modify

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werd!

jwalker87

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they are really easy. Just take an exacto knife and slice around the black sealant stuff. Then once you work a small screwdriver into it, its very easy to pry them apart. I just cleaned the chrome and painted it with regular black paint (not hi temp). They look p.i.m.p. now. Really no reason to bake them.

Cyberkinetic

I cleared my headlights months ago, but now I want to blackhouse them. If any of you have pics, can you post them? Especially if you have a blue car! I wanna get an idea of what mine would look like.

HyaBoosta

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so how many people sanded the chrome and how many didn't. because we tried this before on headlights from a wrecked civic and when we taped it off and painted it. once we removed the tape, the chrome peeled off with it.

jwalker87

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i didnt. Then again, with our headlights, you dont need tape. The entire trim piece can be painted black, and it looks good, so there's no chance of taking chrome off with the tape.

HyaBoosta

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but what about the rippled chrome section where the headlight bulb is and the circles where the bulbs all go? don't you need to cover them up?or does that come off too?

chicohonda02

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ya! i was wonding that too. I would like to paint the headlight too, sooner or later.

jwalker87

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that comes off. You dont need to sand it. There's a DIY on this site that shows a picture of the headlight disassembled. Here it is:

It should show that the entire trim piece can be painted black.

HyaBoosta

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so what kind of paint have you guys used?would just some spray paint work?

TeLLy

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Pick up some Krylon Fusion spray paint from your local Home Depot. It's supposedly made to bond to plastic (which these "chrome" parts really are) without sanding or priming. It's worked great in a dozen or so headlights I've done.

HyaBoosta

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nice. thanks for the help guys. Im going to do this this weekend. Im getting a little bored of the cleared lights and blue painted dash trim pieces. Im going for the stock sleeper look. so im gonna black em out and paint the trim pieces black again.
what do you guys think on a black coupe. flat black or shiney.