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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 01:58 PM
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Question headlights tinted?

has anyone tinted there head lights b4 on there sc? Im thinking about tinting all the lights the low beams, high beams and even fog lights.. Im thinking though if i just tint the fog lights it will look pretty nice.. any1 got any pixs out there so i can see what it looks like?
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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 02:54 PM
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Oh please say it aint so...paint the housings black, but dont tint the lens
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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 04:02 PM
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Lightly smoked tint? If so,look up autoboy's car
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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 04:51 PM
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tinting headlights is eh...just paint the housings...looks so much better...tint the fogs and highs if you want...



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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 04:53 PM
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Do not tint the headlights it makes them look tacky. Why would you ever want to reduce your light output also
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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 04:56 PM
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I would also recommend painting the headlight housings black. If you want to try blacking out the whole headlight anyway, you might want to try using vinyl to tint them since it's removable from what I hear.
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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 05:53 PM
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No, this has Never been done in the history of clublexus
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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 07:47 PM
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I have tinted my highbeams yellow and the fogs yellow, turned out pretty good IMO
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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 08:15 PM
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What should should try to get is a pair of the clear lens. usually people go to ebay buy the headlights there just to use the lens..since there is no more group buy..or check supermade.

But DO NOT tint headlights...it would be a little different if the SC headlights were glass instead of plastic.

TRUST me i was an idiot and took out my headlights and tinted them. looks gay. i ended up trashing those and using the other pair i had just in case...long story

but point blank dont take away from lighting and its U G L Y!
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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 09:56 PM
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I don't think it looks tacky. Just my 0.02
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Old Oct 23, 2010 | 10:13 PM
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It's been done before. am surprised nobody didn't chime in on my foglight overlay thread like this which hasn't been covered wow
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Old Oct 24, 2010 | 01:05 AM
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I agree with all of you.. BUT in my case my lights are shot. It looks like they've been saoking in **** since 93.. I hear Nufinish can clean them up pretty good.. Are there any other products online I can pick up? If I cant restore them I'd like to just smoke them out insted of dropping a few bills on new lights. O yeah I got HID's so I'm not too worried about how bright my ride is..

-93 5speed "Black Magic" comming Thankgiving 2010
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Old Oct 24, 2010 | 08:13 AM
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headlights tinted?-3k73o73lb5z25x25r4a4ga022858debcc1df0.jpg

That's how my car was when I bought it. I honestly like how it looked but had to remove it because it made the lights useless at night.
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Old Oct 24, 2010 | 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by kapetajr
I have tinted my highbeams yellow and the fogs yellow, turned out pretty good IMO
Fogs yes, high beams , low beams to dark for me


Well OP if your going to tint them go ahead and post a pic so we can see how they turned out.
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Old Oct 24, 2010 | 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by TougeSC3


I don't think it looks tacky. Just my 0.02

If your gonna do it, its gotta be exactly like this ^^^^... I wonder what exact process they did to get it so perfect
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