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Interior/Exterior Painting Headlight Housing (aka Joey Mod)

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Old 02-14-2006, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by WeeGas
..... did you melt any of the plastic housing or find any other problems?
Thats what im thinking, rubber, plastic....

I best warn the girlfriend to leave the cooker free sunday...."no room for the chicken love today !!!"
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 10:19 AM
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I demand a detailed writeup! I'd be so afraid to fvck my xenons up, I bet they cost a sh1tload to replace.
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 10:35 AM
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I demand a detailed writeup! I'd be so afraid to fvck my xenons up, I bet they cost a sh1tload to replace.
naw...somewhere around 1200 each
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Tuls
naw...somewhere around 1200 each
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 10:56 AM
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Petition Started!

Originally Posted by fj0
I demand a detailed writeup! I'd be so afraid to fvck my xenons up, I bet they cost a sh1tload to replace.
I'm second on the list to DEMAND that Tuls give us all a fast answer, awesome PDF writeup with pictures, and list his phone number so that we can call him when we have questions

Seriously though I would like Tuls to give us a little more information than just baiting us with snazzy picutures.
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 07:42 PM
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congrats! you beat me to the punch by one week.

the extra headlight i acquired off ebay for 37 bucks... was shipped to my work. once there, it somehow accidentaly got put on a semi and sent to a gig 250 mlies away! DOH!!! so close to being the first.... so close.

nice one.... ill be joining the ranks shortly.
 
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So whats it look like installed??? Preferably on a JB/B no bonnet stripes MCS
But more importantly, it went fromsilver reflective stuff to black, is affecting your brightness??
Tuls, thanks for sharing with us yet again you show us some cool stuff and we still want to know how to do it
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Samtrak
congrats! you beat me to the punch by one week.

the extra headlight i acquired off ebay for 37 bucks... was shipped to my work. once there, it somehow accidentaly got put on a semi and sent to a gig 250 mlies away! DOH!!! so close to being the first.... so close.

nice one.... ill be joining the ranks shortly.
you know what the worst part is....I have had this light sitting in my house for a year...and never thought about it...it was in the MINI storage closet...yes I have one of those...LOL....I didn't even find out about this thread till last saturday when I met Chikmagnet...he was good enough to remember to PM me about it...LOL...Sigh...what a waste....

Originally Posted by motor on
So whats it look like installed??? Preferably on a JB/B no bonnet stripes MCS
But more importantly, it went fromsilver reflective stuff to black, is affecting your brightness??
Tuls, thanks for sharing with us yet again you show us some cool stuff and we still want to know how to do it
it's always a pleasure to help out when I can...I love this stuff just as much as the next guy...doing kewl mods is what I am all about! it's the little things that make it all worth while
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 09:29 PM
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did u use a hair dryer or something similar to get the light off?

i know this mod is popular with honduh's and they use a hair dryer to take the light off.
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 09:43 PM
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oven...

just an FYI for everyone...I'll post a "how to" of some kind soon...sorry...have had alot of work to do so...uhh yeah...you are gunnah have to wait...LOL
 
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yeh oven was the alternative coz the hair dryer took something like 20 mins to heat up! hahahahahaha!!

looking forward to how-to's
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 09:51 PM
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Sorry I havent seen this thread for a while, here is a picture of his car, I have talked to him about it, he is going to help me do my someday, but he did say he had to break a few small bolts or something to get them apart but said they went back together just fine!! here is his head light!!
 
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Old 02-14-2006, 10:21 PM
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tha'ts a bit much for me....too much of a good thing so to speak
 
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Old 02-15-2006, 01:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Tuls
tha'ts a bit much for me....too much of a good thing so to speak
a little bit too much black to be honest....but i bet it looks better looking stood next to it, rather than a photo
 
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i think this thread deserves a big bump...I want to do this...I've done it on a few others' cars....but I need some sort of writeup for these...I dont want to **** up a xenon...
 
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Old 04-06-2006, 06:32 AM
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Im in the middle of trying this, picked up a halogen headlight and have just pulled it to bits, piece of cake to get the lens off, might have an idea how to remove the lens with out heating it up but Im still working on that...
 
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Originally Posted by pobsey
Im in the middle of trying this, picked up a halogen headlight and have just pulled it to bits, piece of cake to get the lens off, might have an idea how to remove the lens with out heating it up but Im still working on that...
AWESOME let us know how it goes....when you say easy, how easy are we talking?
 
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Remove all excess glue from around the 3 clips, then cut through the glue between the outer casing and lens, then put in a pre heated oven at 185 degrees C for 4 minutes, the wearing gloves pry the 3 clips and pull, the lens should now come apart, whilst the glue is warm remove as much as you can from the lens and the groove in the light back, you can use white spirit to break down the glue to really clean it up well,


Thought of using white spirit instead of heat to break the glue, but, on looking at the light I doubt this would work. oh and one more thing if you try this and it doesn't work or you damage your lights its at your own risk!
 
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Old 04-06-2006, 05:28 PM
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Heres how you do it on a civic. Mabey a similar process?

http://www.honda-acura.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=56277
 
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Awesome!
 
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diy steps pls?
 
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Old 04-11-2006, 06:29 PM
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hey guys....sorry I totally droped the ball on this...but real life set in...I have video of it all so I'll get that done sometime... :P
 
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Originally Posted by Tuls
hey guys....sorry I totally droped the ball on this...but real life set in...I have video of it all so I'll get that done sometime... :P
Alright where is the video? I am almost ready to do this to my Xenons!!!impatient
 
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look how good it looks

2 people have now done it over on M|U
 


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