I've been strongly considering baking my headlights for sometime to paint/tint the inside pieces. I am for sure about painting the orange reflector but and also considering painting the eyebrow black. I wanted to see if anyone has a spare headlight laying around for my test project that they would be willing to part with for my test purposes. Obviously I don't want to pay a ton for something that I am just going to throw in the oven and experiment with. I figured maybe those that upgraded to the LCI headlights would be a possible donor. This way not only myself but all here would be able to see the end result and also know that it does/doesn't damage anything. I'm assuming all will be well as I have done this with my cars in the past but this experiment will confirm my suspicion one way or another. Anyways, if anyone has one they can part with shoot me a PM with the details and we can see about working something out.

 

BUMP!

I know someone has to have one laying around. I'm kicking myself for not buying the one I saw on ebay a month ago for $50/$100 shipped.

 

This is a great idea. When I had my Lexus IS300...many of those guys were doing this. Innovative Concepts I believe was the company. Good Luck though. Show pictures after if you do it good I would definetly pay you to do it.

 

Thanks. I've had the itch to do this ever since I got the car and I figured a lot of others would want it assuming the turn out is good. If I don't find one here I'll just keep searching ebay until I find one for a decent price.

 

One last shameless bump before I start soley searching ebay/craigslist. I really don't want to have to risk doing this on my own headlights!

 

I've got one, but its broken underneath. If i read your posts correctly, you're looking to bascially experiment on it. If you want it still, pm me and I'll try to get you some pics here tonight.

 

That sounds great.. how bad is the damage underneath? This is mostly to ensure that no damage will come from baking the headlight and to see what results I get from painting either the reflector or the eyebrow or both. This sounds like it should work out great. PM me how much you want and your paypal info and we can go from there. Thanks!

 

I'll try and post some pics, and explain the damage. Hopefully they will answer most of your questions.

 

Sounds good thanks again for your help.

 

This is the underside of the light:
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Below you can see that there is a black piece of plastic that was broken off.
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You can see on the left side of this picture that some of the clear plastic is broken, but the light is still completely sealed so no water can get in the front.
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This is the back of the light
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If you're using this light for purely experimentation purposes, you should buy it. I was actually going to try and see if I could seperate the lense, but I never got around to it. The light works including the eyebrow and angel eyes. But, there is no angel eye bulb, nor a xenon bulb in this light. You would have to insert your own control unit, adaptive unit, bulb and ignitor in order to get xenon functionality. PM me with any questions.