For every1 saying that spaying them black wil fail an mot.. Well ur wrong because mine are exactually the same and my mot was last week and it passed with ease =)

I'm tempted to do mine... Looks very easy and the difference is awesome! Good simple guide to follow but I will probably use either a heat gun or a hair dryer... The oven stuff scares me a little

Excellent guide(s) here, somone had broken the adjuster on my off side headlamp anyway so needed an excuse to get this done. People, don't worry about MOT / legality of this. As long as the reflector is not touched nor the lamp shroud its fine. For those who have removed the shroud or painted the reflector it depends how lazy the MOT tester is whether they notice. Same goes for the old bill, depends how knowledgeable or picky they are. But I would only advise painting the surround.

on the pics, the guy has removed the reflector, do you have to take the reflector out at anytime or does it just stay in its position, even if i take the surround out?

:bump:

i jus did a set for my wee green vtr (goin for black n green theme) and the silver stuck out like a sore thumb.i was a bit dubious of puttin them in oven but it worked a treat.i managed to snag a set of standard lights for a fiver!! awsome or what?? i will be doing my own set and selling them if anyone is interested?

Hey I'm kinda new to this so bare with me :P I sprayed my headlights a couple of months ago and all went fine.bits its been bugging me for ages about the green outline around the lense. Just wondering does anyone know how to get rid of this!!!! I put mine back together on the same sealent if that helps :D

Rye

good step by step! will have to try this as i want mine black!

Just came across this thread. Excellent stuff! Big thumbs up!

This is so much more difficult than it looks... Glue everywhere, hot glass, oh such a mess...

Did anyone else have to take off the bumper to get the bottom bolt off the light?

shouldn't have to mate. i never have

I can't get the bottom bolt off. I've tried everything, the bumper just sits half an inch too high to get in.

i will be attemting this to my mk1 today :)

hmmm...i guess you tried pushing the bumper down aswell?

Yep. I'm taking the bumper off soon to do some repairs, stone chips, wide mouth/mesh and a respray anyway so I'll do it then.

After much effort;

what does it look like on mk1 saxo's? im thinking of doing it too but want to see some pictures first :P

MK1 pics ?? ;)

Anybody done mk2 lights with gloss black paint or are they all matt?

Cant really tell in some pics

Done mine today...

I did the same idea with my rear lights, looks decent, gonna spray front headlights and dogs next Im having trouble getting the headlights out. I own a saxo 1.4 furio, not really into doing up my car just want to make it my own and look half decent, I'm also new to this site so sorry for any stupid questions etc

Cheers

So do i pre heat the oven ? dont want to over cook them.
Never been a great cook

going to do mines this weekend ,looks gd man , matt black;)

Primer and laquer isnt needed.. But good walk through, next patch of nice weather and i'll do mine..

good walk thru ,
i may have to "cook" myself a set of them up :P

Booomm!

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not sure if srs or if you paint like a retard?

primer is deffo needed. lacquer is only needed dependent on what finish you are after

Adding this job to my "to do" list now ... only gotta decide to go red, or black ... hmmm ...

Dan

How this shit thread hasn't been deleted yet I don't know.

im with barry tbh

Hopefully doing this when ive got some spare time makes a big change to the car imo and simple to do.

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Is this easy to do with angel lights ?

doing this tomorrow as got a spare set of lights just hope oven dont kill them as they aint really spare just got two cars ;) gonna look sweeeeet on my fully blacked off and dropped saxsloth puppy :D

I can confirm an oven is better to split the light than a halogen heater!!

Picsss??

Tbh I pre-heated my oven for 5 min at 140 C and then I kept each headlight in for 2 mins, it was enough to remove the glass. I'll post some picks of the end result tomorrow.

for those asking you can do the same with mk1 lights!


it's exactly the same with mk2 lights! i personally used heat gun to open them unfortunatelly i don't have pictures of the progress! go for it it's an easy mod to do!