Our amber headlights CAN be de-ambered

[CraigM]

It's a bit of a hassle for not a huge impact if it's all you're doing, but I painted mine while I had them apart to install my GT Projectors.

When you take off the headlight lenses (after baking and all), there's a gold-colored shroud in the turn signal area that is held in by a screw. It's gold on our headlights but painted like the rest of the shroud on the true clear headlights. I forgot to take pics of it, but it's very obvious once you have them open.

This is how it looks once it's painted, I went with black BBQ paint like ParticleWave suggested:

[ilikeching]

Originally Posted by CraigM

It's a bit of a hassle for not a huge impact if it's all you're doing, but I painted mine while I had them apart to install my GT Projectors.

When you take off the headlight lenses (after baking and all), there's a gold-colored shroud in the turn signal area that is held in by a screw. It's gold on our headlights but painted like the rest of the shroud on the true clear headlights. I forgot to take pics of it, but it's very obvious once you have them open.

This is how it looks once it's painted, I went with black BBQ paint like ParticleWave suggested:

My owen stove is too small to do the baking
is there another alternative to do? the headlights is about 14-15 yrs.

[mavis.d]

Originally Posted by ilikeching

My owen stove is too small to do the baking
is there another alternative to do? the headlights is about 14-15 yrs.

Mine too but just leave the oven door open and use and apron or towel to stop most of the heat escaping. It will take longer and a higher temp. I normally use 140c and twenty minutes just be careful not rest any of the plastics on metal

[CraigM]

Has anybody tackled the triangle corners? Considering sanding them down, cracking them open and painting to match...
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[CraigM]

Crap...I was sanding the headlights again to clean up some rough spots...and I dropped it. Itty bitty ding, no big deal there, but the whole housing is loose in the headlight assembly. Sigh. I'll deal with it tomorrow.