Baked my headlights!

[Tommy:]]

My roomate and I baked my headlights about a week ago. We got the housing open and I removed the amber and replaced it with an LED. We painted the housing dark grey to match my Dark Slate coupe. I have to say I think it looks A LOT better now then it did before! I just now put in a new HID kit so I'll get pictures up later.

[GrayCoupe]

Nice, make sure that you seal it properly, otherwise condensation problems are bound to happen.

What kind of LEDs did you use?

[Tommy:]]

I didn't actually put an LED strip in it like you did, I just replaced the DRL bulb with an LED. Sorry for the confusion haha

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

Did you paint the housing too ?

[b88dragon]

nice, hope all goes well and cant wait to see those pictures

[DJ_B_Easy]

[DiamondWVU]

[Tommy:]]

Here are some of the pictures, mind you they were taken from my cell phone since I don't own a camera The housing looks black but its actually grey.




Before and After









It's really hard to get decent pictures with just a cell phone though. Sorry!

[b88dragon]

looks really good man. very nice, painted headlights looks so much better than unpainted.

[RuD-bOi]

Looks great! Like how u painted the chrome teeth as well. Now all you need is a nice lip and ur done.

[dangeris]

Looks nice! What did you use to seal them up? Please don't say silicone....

[Tommy:]]

It wasn't just plain silicone, it was silicone sealant my roomate suggested that because that's what he's used in the past but I haven't had any problems since.

[Tommy:]]

Err unless the silicone and silicone sealant are the same thing..

[dangeris]

silicone and silicone sealant is the same thing. You'll see that it will begin to pull apart at some point in time.

[Tommy:]]

:\ what sealant do you recommend when this time comes?

[GrayCoupe]

I removed all the original sealant and got the NISSAN sealant part number B6553-89915
http://www.mynismo.com/products/?id=5577

Great stuff.

[dangeris]

Yeah the OEM sealant is like hard plastic. It was a biz-ach to get it off!