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Painting headlights right now, halo and LEDs or no?

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Old 08-27-11, 01:59 PM
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Default Painting headlights right now, halo and LEDs or no?

I just painted my fog lights black chrome an hour ago. Now I'm debating while my bumper is half way off, if I should paint the headlights. However, I want to maybe get halos or an amber LED strip as my reflector but I'll have to put everything back and wait. What would you do? Just paint it and put a strip of carbon fiber over the reflector or wait to get halos and LEDs?
Old 08-27-11, 02:15 PM
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IMO just put a strip over the reflectors and paint the headlights. Halos and LED have to be done just right or they look out of place.
Old 08-27-11, 02:28 PM
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I think you should get halos. They look amazing !!!
Old 08-27-11, 02:39 PM
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I guess I'll just paint them for now and I'll add halos and stuff in the future. JLC did this for an ISF and it looks sick! I'd do amber instead cause I don't want cops to bug me of silly stuff like not having amber.



Edit: Made up my mind. I'll just paint today and do halos, LED reflectors, and LED turn signals later on.
Old 08-27-11, 02:49 PM
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This looks good love the led strips.
Old 08-27-11, 03:53 PM
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How did he add the LEDS?
Old 08-27-11, 04:29 PM
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you can do something like this if you know how to do it!!! click here
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we have to open the head light, custom install those then seal it back on. its a lot of works but hey it doesnt look that bad right
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I personally like the halos. The LED strip in the headlights are so common now.
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Halos is way better to me. It looks so mean every time you turn it on.
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Well, I finished with the headlights, did them black chrome but this might be the first mod I regret doing. First I ran out of paint right on the last coat of the last headlight then I had to rush the install cause I needed to drive my mom to get food. I rushed a plugged in the foglight wire to the HID low beam by accident and blew the bulb. After I was done, I noticed there's condensation in the right head lamp already. Overall, not an easy mod and not worth the time for me. Pics in the morning though!
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