Took the cheap way out. What do you think?
 

I work at a body shop and had one of my painters "tint" the orange out of my headlights. Essentially what he did was paint over the orange with black paint and put 2 coats of clear on them and then baked them for 30 mins. Popped them back in and my orange is gone! You can still see turn signals through them so it worked out nicely. Sorry for poor quality picture, it was taken with my cell phone.

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Definitely the cheap way out, I'm not a big fan of that look as it takes away from the attractive curve and lines of the headlight.

not to put too fine a point on it, but :barf:

Is that actually going to pass state inspection? It wouldn't here.............

I don't have to worry about state inspections. Only have to get inspections at original purchase.

Sort of looks like a high water mark after the flood water receded.:ah:

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use a matte vinyl tint instead. I too painted my front signals, and soon after used acetone to take the paint off and wrapped them instead. Acetone doesn't cloud the clear plastic ;)

Personally, it seems like someone gave your boxster two black eyes.

That looks good!

Really no need...amber is darn sexy on black IMO ;)
Just install projectors and the front end will look much more modern. :)

Sorry. Doesn't go with the lines of the front end.

epapp - where did you get the matte vinyl?

Kills the look of the front end all together, looks like something took a bite out of the front end now.

Sorry, can't say I'm a fan. Then again, it's your car so do what you like best. :)

Not for me.

http://www.amazon.com/Metro-Smoke-Vinyl-Tail-Light/dp/B005EZILIE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1386859347&sr=8-3&keywords=Lens+tint+film


You need a heat gun or hair dryer, and some patience, but it continues to look great through rain, cold and hot


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Thanks you for the link.

I would order headlamps now. Can't say I care for it. Thanks for trying, I had thought about it on mine, decided not to. This confirms why.

Thought this was interesting. This guy did the same to his headlights. No one said anything bad about the way it looked here. Not that I care. Everyone has there own opinion but just thought it was funny how one thread had no one mentioning poor headlight tint and then my thread had no love.

http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/44939-purschased-my-first-black-1998-boxster-australia.html

I think maybe the lighting may be bad in my pic because in regular day light my headlights look identical to his.

I'm with Mark_T
:barf:

I am not falling for the orange light peer pressure... I am embracing the originality. :cheers:

Presentation is everything;) I commented in that other thread but I did not comment on his headlights specifically since he wasn't really asking for an opinion on them. Seems he bought it that way. I think his car, as well as yours, would look better with the clear lights instead of blacked out. BUT, that is just my opinion. Everyone has to do what they like best. That is what is so great about this forum, there are all kinds of ideas and opinions, some I like, some I don't, but I learn from everyone:cheers:

You asked for our opinion, He was just showing his car.

Exactly. You came in and said something to the effect of: "I cheaped out on a mod, what do you think?" and then you get your chit in a knot when everyone isn't like "Oh wow, you da man!" Next time you solicit opinions maybe you should specify that you only want to hear the ones you're going to like.

Those blacked-out ambers look just as heinous on his car as yours, he just didn't draw attention to it like you did. It looks like crap on your car, and it looks like crap on every other car where that has been done, and it has nothing to do with bad lighting.

Chit in a knot? We must be reading two different things. Nothing to do with lighting is also an ignorant statement considering paint and colors on cars has everything to do with lighting. There is no substitute for pure sunlight.

I agree. Been on many car forums. Always interesting to see what people are doing to cars good or bad.

No doubt, it's common to remove the amber. However, I think it looks good on that headlight style. Particularly on the black cars. The amber gives it some nice visual weight.


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I agree that it looks good. Mine is Guards Red with Litronics headlights and the tail lights have amber in it and it gets lost in the red body color. With the clears it would would add visual weight. I am happy with the way mine are but others will like the clears. To each his own.