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Old 11-13-07, 10:04 PM
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Default With all this headlight talk, teaser pix of my new retrofitted headlights! *pics*

Bjorn over @ CustomLightz did a great job Can't wait til they get here.







TSX projector, Clear lens from ebay headlights, OEM housing, insides painted black, with CCFL ring.


I'll post pix when they're here / installed

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The city light looks weird, and I am not a fan of the blue halo's, but in the efforts to continue further projects and evolving to something different, good job on a change.

That silicone on the inside of the left corner has to go however. That looks pretty bad.
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Originally Posted by O. L. T.
The city light looks weird, and I am not a fan of the blue halo's, but in the efforts to continue further projects and evolving to something different, good job on a change.

That silicone on the inside of the left corner has to go however. That looks pretty bad.
it looks pretty good, but whats up with the city light. i would make the blue ring white but that just me.
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I agree, good effort. But the end result is a bit of a botched job.
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I wouldn't go as far as saying it's botched by any means....different, yes.
Old 11-13-07, 10:19 PM
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yeah.. the silicone on the side is HORRIBLE
Old 11-13-07, 10:30 PM
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looks pretty good..but agreed with the silicone part..get some black silicone..may be hidden better. so the ebay lights fit on there just perfect then? thats cool..its very clean..i would love to see how it looks on the car! cant wait to see more pix!
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Those are very close to my plans. -the paint.

I dont think you need to worry about the silicone. Most of that is going to be covered by the bumper anyway. I think...

I rather have a bunch of silicone rather than hearing that my headlight fuild is low.
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Originally Posted by TecnoSmurf
Those are very close to my plans. -the paint.

I dont think you need to worry about the silicone. Most of that is going to be covered by the bumper anyway. I think...

I rather have a bunch of silicone rather than hearing that my headlight fuild is low.
Actually, it's not the silicone around the headlight that is showing, it's inside the housing where you can see it. If you look closely at the first picture, you'll notice on inner edge next to the turn signal lense, there's a blob of silicone that's visible inside the housing where it will not be hidden.
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i would give it an 8 out of 10, +for clear, black, retro fit, and different, -for hella botched silicon near turn signal super -for ricey halos(Lexus not BMW is on our cars)
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Originally Posted by pnyboy27
looks pretty good..but agreed with the silicone part..get some black silicone..
Yep, if this is a business and they turn out that kind of product I'd ask them to redo it with black silicone like they should have used to begin with.
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So the clear lenses from the ebay lights fits right up to it with no mods?
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looks good .when i first looked at it i thought there was no lens on the light.You might want to try and paint around the lens to hide all that ugliness at the side.
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Originally Posted by k4rr
So the clear lenses from the ebay lights fits right up to it with no mods?


it's not 100% flush, if i recall correctly.
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Not feeling it...the clear lense is damn nice though...

Would be a bit nicer with a smaller CCFL ring and white light as the color...


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