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Old 08-02-09 | 01:58 AM
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Default finally finished my headlight mod

bought a set of headlights that I wanted to clear corner. I picked them up, and saw that there was no orange in them, or so i thought. turns out after some polishing, they were just hazed over and yellowed. even on the inside of the lens they were hazy and yellow.

So i decided to pull them apart and clear corner them, and decided to do some tinkering with them, and try to come up with something unique. let me know what you think!

btw: these lights are my daytime running lights. meaning they are on constantly, and DRL's (daytime running lights) are legally required by law in Canada.






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Old 08-02-09 | 06:28 AM
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That. looks. so. damn. awesome.

F***ing amazing



i am so jealous right now...

how long did that take you to do?
Old 08-02-09 | 09:58 AM
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That is pretty sick man! Makes it look like the new Audi's!

What kind of led strip did you use?
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it took me a while, the usual hour or so to rip them apart. then just a matter of ripping out the orange signal thing, grinding some stuff bending some stuff, cutting some stuff, wiring some stuff, glueing some stuff, soldering, some siliconing, then i had to heat gun them back together and make sure they were sealed. all in all, probally about 20 hours before install, and then install was a ***** cause i was to lazy to take the bumper off, and i had to do it on the street, so my back was killing me from leaning over so much. hahaha
Old 08-02-09 | 11:01 AM
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looking nice.
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thanks man. i love them
Old 08-02-09 | 12:30 PM
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How much would you charge 2 do mine?
Old 08-02-09 | 01:29 PM
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looks killer
Old 08-02-09 | 02:50 PM
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reminds me of something i was messing with a couple years ago..


good work.. but doesn't it look too bluish? i felt like it was too blue/ricey so i took mines
off after a few days..
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nope, in real life, mine are whiter than anything. i love them, they give off the purply/white of LED's.

where'd you get your clear lenses?
Old 08-02-09 | 07:38 PM
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Dammit!!! I wanted to be the first....
Working on mine as we speak, GOOD JOB!!!
I guess I'll be the first to make new a new clear lens, working on that too...
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good, let me know how the clear lens goes.
Old 08-03-09 | 02:30 PM
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that looks pretty sick man. it must look pretty mean from someone's rearview! LOL. good thing you don't have eyelids on your headlights...LOL jk
Old 08-03-09 | 02:43 PM
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F---ng awsome. when are you going to show us how to do it. And or what lights you used for the Mod
Old 08-03-09 | 04:22 PM
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pretty freakin nice!!


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