How to Blackout Your Headlight Housing
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- In this video, I show you how to paint your headlight housing. On the VW, it comes stock chrome, and I want to black it out to give it a bit more contrast.
So if you have a set of reflector bowls that are chrome, you should leave them chrome so you don’t distort your light output. The only time you can paint them is if you are doing a headlight retrofit and you are installing a projector lens in that bowl, similar to the lens I have on my Accord.
It isn’t a bad idea to look into an additional set of headlights to do this procedure to, so that if you damage your headlights for whatever reason, your daily driver is not out of commission. You can usually find a set at your local scrap yard, eBay, or even amazon for pretty cheap.
If you have any questions regarding the video, you know where to throw them!! Thanks for watching :)
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21:08 takes all the time to clean the inside of the cover.. Picks it up from the inside
And never tints the covers.
marshalcraft why is would that ever be necessary?
You forgot to put in blinker fluid
haha
lmao
xDDDDD That's a gold one xD
savage :D
Not necesary
nothing i do comes out as easy as it looks in the vid, allready cracked the side of a lense. atleast i still have 1 more for practice untill i give up
Agreed. I followed another tutorial and i was getting super frustrated and sad. Havent tried this yet but i want to
Was I the only one waiting for a before and after shot? haha
lol
This is a great and detailed tutorial. Good job mate! Thanks.
I was supposed to be doing hw and ended up binge watching alot of these videos lol
:D me too!! ;)
lol same
Same
🤦🏻♀️🤣 same!!!!
No questions here, I just love your videos. You do everything for these videos and I appreciate what you're doing. You truly love cars and helping everybody out!
"first coat should be a dust coat. don't want to do a wet coat..." does wet coat anyway. lol, you bad ass.
good video buddy, was a job well done!
I'm not even joking when i say this but the oven partially melted the inside of my corner/turning headlamps and warped the inside of them and i wasn't even able to get it apart. On top of that once it cooled the hole where my turning light goes into was not too small to even fit the light through it....so now i have to buy new corner/turning headlamps.
Very detailed tutorial and you probably made your mom happy for not messing with her oven. Also a nice contraption on the heat gun. Thanks for sharing
After you do videos like this, show your work. Make a small video with your lights on and you slowly going around it. I'm unsatisfied now
First time I tried this, I rather stupidly set my oven to 250°c 😂 melted a set, luckily I had spares. Doing V2 now using 105°c to be safe
wow you took a car that wasn't taken care of and did a great job. brings tears to my eyes!
+Tarek Taher Thanks buddy!! :) Yeah its come quite a long ways!!
now that u say that. I'm doing the same actually lol Basically doubling it's value.
I did my headlights black too. Didn't put clear coat tho,but so far it hasn't peeled off or yellowed up at all. Still looks good to date.
Thats awesome dude!! Glad your headlights are okay
Lol nice
Great videos bud! Just got a 2003 Kia for my daughter and I'll make her watch these so she can do the work herself. Keep up the great work!!!
instead of using a heat gun do u think that a hair dryer would work ?
Mike Redding It’d take a heck of a long time. If you have a Harbor Freight in or near your town you can pick up a heat gun for about $8 with coupon. Otherwise, you could definitely order one online. I’d HIGHLY recommend you either pick up a heat gun or just use the oven.
Dude - your video is crazy good. Thank you for both all of the complete instructions as well as using a tripod so you aren't the typical shaky video type. Subscribing!
Looks great! When i first read the title i was shaking my head (thought u were gonna tint the lens lol) but u did good man! Looks propper.
+Random Guy Oh no!! I wouldn't dare do that :) Thanks!!
Can you please link the LED lights !
I love all your videos on the Golf mk4.. great tutorials!
In what temperature was your heat gun? Nice video by the way
Thanks Andrew! I set it to max heat
did the chrome reflector for headlight rub off I tried painting a spare set of lights and I touches it and the chrome came off.
Definitely too heavy on the first prime coat and first paint coat, but other than that, it was great.
Did it turn out like shit? No... why do people comment shit like this smh
Did you drain the blinker fluid first?
RTV silicon will do just as good a job as that rubber sticky beading stuff
Hey great idea about heating them up I've heard where people put them in there oven. But sounds abit iffy to me that but brilliant way to heat anything really own mini cheap oven. 😂 watched from uk 🇬🇧
Amazing job! Keep posting more "How-to" videos like this!
Suggestion? Post a video about painting the calipers :)
I've got a video for you than :) You just wait and see ahah
milanmastracci make one about paint the wheels
Can you tell me if those small metal clips you took off from the headlight are replaceable? I have one that got popped off and now the headlight is not air tight. Please for the love of god can someone read this and let me know where to buy these clips? Thank you for making this video.
220 deg for 8-10 mins... Do not do 250... also make sure that you put the light on a piece of wood... any metal will cause hot spots and melt plastic... (I have done this to many head lights also 3 different VW GTI’s which have the same head lights... also if any one has any questions I have pictures of the light I did and can give you step by step Correctly... do NOT touch any of the reflective bowls or you will always regret it..
Also it’s not A chrome plastic coating it’s actually aluminum that is on there yes in a very thin coating but wearing it off is not what you’re concerned about the concern is any fingerprints or anything will cause scratches that will always be visible and will be magnified when light hits them... when it comes to opening lights check out Chris’s Chanel from “FlyRyde he is by far the best for this kind of thing... for golf got lights I have pictures and am happy to help
Thank you for the video. Question below the high beam bulb there's what seems to be a small bulb too which doesn't light up. I've been searching online to find out what it is, do you know?
What size for the city LED light? What other bulbs did you upgrade? Brand and model please
Great video, my son is going to do this soon
BRAD ABoY your son ain’t ready to do this modding shit if you’re on UA-cam looking for part specifics
You did a really nice job on the video including the processes, the how's and why's.
+Rich Beach Thanks Rich :) Glad you liked it!!
finally a decent update no more exhaust stuff
fuck are you talking about, he's put up like 5 videos since his last exhaust video.
Something that is a diy like this video is good but one of them was Flares and another does it shoot fire lol
Questio: you all show the frontlights with the clips and plastic glass, what about showing the front lamps with glass mounted...?
Thanks
Your video was very helpfull, your explanations, the quiet way you explaint it, everything is wonderfull
I’m still trying to figure out the parking light bulbs. What do they do. Because when I put on my brake nothing works
On a sidenote: you might want to remove the bulbs before heating the headlight. That is if you want to use them again
I was thinking ab doing this but blacked out halo lights are only 150 for my car. What do yall think?
I would look better if you dark blued out them, not blacked out them. Because your car is dark blue.
You make it look so easy but I would undoubtedly jack up my headlights so bad.
oven really? why not just use a heat gun
it might not be even heating as the heat box is...I thought the same thing, but as you heat one side, the other would cool down.
What kind of shitty design requires you to remove a bumper to remove the headlight
If i do this Any change on Light in Dark ?? It lows Me A brightness or not
Okay. I’m reading this high as fuck. This man is a god damn fuckin scientist.
Where did you get the clear reflector light side light marker great video thanks
Does it work for gs400 as well? Can you show that tutorial as well???
where they bought a Light on her bumper and I want to buy
PLEASEE! 25:00
Wow! nice job! Gives the car a nice "serious" look.
I actually want to see when all the light are on. I'm curious when the led is on
so dumb. there's a reason the backfacing is reflective.
Did you have any issues with your LED’s and them flickering or intermittent working ? As I didn’t see you say anything about relays
Usually LEDs flicker if the electrical system isn't providing stable voltage or if those lights are running out. Most often it's the latter one.
Does the headlight get de-oxidized from the heat process?
You more than earned a like on this video, you really put a lot of work into making this video, you should be proud well done!
Thanks bud :)
Depating if i shouldndo it because i kinda like the chrome
Anyone in the UK know if this is legal and can pass MOT?
The reson why the glue is in ther is so the water can't get in the headlight
Ahh butyl, the days of old windshield install
does painting it matte black, looses brightness on your headlight?
No, you don't touch the reflectors so no change in light output.
You can do some Mcguire product give away
the explanation is very clear, thank you
Verdammt, du solltest kein Werkzeug haben ... sehr gefährlich
did you do this for the 370z lights?
did you fart?
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free set of plasti dip and a paint dyc gun and please do it with youtube coments i really cant sighn in to those special contest giveaways
+Imtu Ahmed Not a bad idea :)
Great job, thank you for the info.
can you do the same thing for tail lights?
can you use vantablack or any other "darkest black" paint to paint the headlights?
How to blind yourself at night*
Hey you live in Ontario ! Where ?!
Niagara :)
Wow! i live in Ottawa :)
what size is that small bulb on bottom of high beams
I don't think the LED inside headlight will last long. The heat from Halogen bulb would eventually kill them.
Halogens aren't the biggest problem. Halogen bulbs won't generate enough heat to kill surrounding LED's. On the other hand, HID's generate a lot more heat, which could definitely kill LED's.
I had LEDs inside my bikes headlight which has 35W halogens and the distance from halogen to LED was more than 15cm but still some leds on the bulb burned out and all the burned out leds are facing the halogen side. The problem was that the heat is trapped inside headlight housing and the inside temperature increases which eventually kills LEDs. Anyway, that was my experience. Do let us know how long those LEDs last for you :-)
Is this LEGAL? (I'm in Australia)
Is it?
Kristiab M your uselessness
Yes it is legal, your lot altering the light output of the headlights, he’s only painting the chrome accents around the reflectors.
Any german here? Ist es erlaubt in Deutschland oder muss ich es eintragen lassen?
PS - if you didn't catch him say it, primary should just about spray dry. Spray can distance can help with this.
Just keep a further distance away while painting...
20:30 is there a reason why you did not remove the old bead of adhesive if you're gonna put a new bead anyway? Also, you probably should avoid touching your seal with oily fingertips in order to avoid the adhesive not work...just sayin'
1:10 you also forgot the 2 other torx bolts securing bumper behind the two fog light openings...
Thats a great job but I wouldnt paint over the chrome ball light thats under the indicator. It looks funny when thats blacked out.
i'm pretty sure over here in Belgium the side markers need to be yellow/orange - ish ... is it possible to get LED's in that color so I can get a clear indicator glass?
nice vid but one question...you blacked out your headlights so why not go with matching smoked/black corner lights instead of clear ones?
I am so late on this video but come on dude... show your work, show those lights going on and off, and more important, show the before and after. This video was so close to greatness D:
this is how you can brake most plastic clips on your vw golf mk4 front bumper... please do some research before you try to remove or reinstall your bumpers...
You you should change the hi lo beam bulbs to the sylverstar zxe lights.. theyre super bright and white.. look alot better than the normal lights that have the yellowish color glow.. t
try remove for valeo brand 😀🤣🤣
Mine headlight has so much that black glue to it, I scuffed it for 3 hours and i only did half a one headlight done
didn't like the clear side markers haha but the car is looking awesome! :D
+Gabriel Aiello Well to each their own :) Thanks Gabe!
Hey Milan, do you think it's possible to plasti dip the headlight housing? Like, if I at some point would change my mind I could just peel it off. Or does it get to hot for plasti dip? :)
Why not completely strip the light first before you bake it? For example the bulbs and electrics.
man put fog light on it and change the grill n it would be awesome
Hi....from what you know ...are there any differences in taking the glass out from a golf mk4 hella headlight and valeo headlight ? Thanks 😉
Great video Milan
+Kieren plays FIFA Thanks Kieren!!
Hey i have an easy and cheap way to blackout your head light you just need a 3000 oven... Lmao
Could you do a video of how to install halo lights and make them drl's? Only thing i need to know so i can make my own custom lights after i watch your projector install video
That's not how u put the grill on
does blacking out the headlight housing make the lights yellow?? or not as bright
Could u please put a link the head light bulbs you used? I wanna put the same ones in my 02 Volkswagen golf
Please, I am in Nigeria and just purchased a Golf 4, Silver color. Give me hints on how to pimp it.
Excellent video and detail. Step by step and products you would not know, or think to need, like butyl rubber tape!
I am going to try this on my Mk3 projector lights. Really love this tutorial video. Thanks
250 degree oven. Lol. Guess prying slowly with a heat gun is impossible
My wood blocks set on fire lol
Just shared this video to enter the contest. So thrilled to use this technique to open my headlights and put on some DRL to my Mirage.
Great vid bro. Do you think plastidip will hold up if I use it to blackout the insides of my headlights?