winter + bordem = headlight project

BoOdOg · Post by **BoOdOg** » February 18th, 2006, 3:54 pm

So I have always kind of wondered what an mx3 with blacked out lights would look like and since no matter how many times I posted on mx-3.com no one has done it. I took my spare set of lights and tried it

here are the results:

first a before pice:

now I used heatgun to seperate (came apart in about 15-20min a light)

products to clean the lights

Now I couldn't use the power metal as it really only works well with powerball and mine fell apart (mothers is currently shipping me another)

after 3 coats of flat black

so then i clean the lense a bit, 3 times outside 2 times inside (during this shitty Canada game this morning)

final results

no pics of them in car yet, comments are welcome

I am still not sure of my thoughts on outcome ....

MrMX3 · Post by **MrMX3** » February 18th, 2006, 11:40 pm

carter!!! Get 'em in the car and get me some pics! :p

PATDIESEL · Post by **PATDIESEL** » February 19th, 2006, 1:48 am

Should look good and a great job on the painting and cleaning.
However, The MX headlamp is so shaped to fit the body lines of the car to some of us who are old school purists they might change the look of the front too much.

Sorta like my 90mm projector lamps. I still can't like them more than the OEM ones in the day time, but at night I know I would never go back.

GregoryChristian · February 19th, 2006, 11:15 am

Looks Good ... can't wait to see them on your car

FlyVFR · Post by **FlyVFR** » February 20th, 2006, 6:15 pm

Nice work. I like it

matrice · Post by **matrice** » February 25th, 2006, 10:34 am

very sweet,,,can't wait to see some on car pics.

GregoryChristian · February 26th, 2006, 5:29 pm

hey BoOdOg , have you got some pics of them installed ?

BoOdOg · Post by **BoOdOg** » February 27th, 2006, 9:27 am

nope, not yet, I put the lights together and took them apart again as the lense wasn't as clear as I wanted so I hopefully get them together tonight and pics of installed later this wk

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » February 27th, 2006, 11:44 pm

looks nice

mx3autozam · Post by **mx3autozam** » February 28th, 2006, 9:06 pm

What kind of glue did you use to seal them back up. I may do this to mine if yours look ngood. My car is black so it may go great with it.

Also my headlighhts look like the have spider webs inside them if you look carefully. So either way I wanna take them apart and do that.Also I ddon't want moisture egtting in them after.I can't stand that.

John