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**Painted Headlight Housing On Gen1.5 Solara?**

**Painted Headlight Housing On Gen1.5 Solara?**

Postby Ilovemylara » Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:01 pm

Hey guys I'm new to SG and to owning a solara as well.. I purchased My solara about 2 months ago and started modding it a few weeks ago, anyhow back to my question, have any of you sucessfully painted your headlight housings? I've read up on how to do it.. i just wanted to check with you guys and see if I will run into any problems.. :)
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Postby 00-solara » Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:11 pm

Welcome!
There are a few people who have done it but to Gen 1's.
I'm not sure how many of them have painted the 1.5's.
I know you can buy blacked out ones online a lil pricey though.
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Postby Ilovemylara » Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:20 pm

yeah probably so, I think I would be better off doing it myself.
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Postby TLMNICK » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:44 am

does anyone have any pics of a BLACK gen1 with painted headlight housings?.....sorry if I'm threadjacking.
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Postby Dawgz » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:09 am

TLMNICK, i think Tracey (MR_Chunks) has his headlights blacked out...
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Postby Toy1mzfe » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:35 am

I did mine. havent showed much pictures of my car recently but it was easy.

Allu need is heat gun adn flat head screw drivers.

I just heated as needed for it to budge, then used scfrew drivers to seperate it. Then unhook the little tabs thats connects the two pieces (back and front cover). As the glue pulls when u seperate it, use the heat gun to make it seperate. Job gets sorta dirty but shouldnt be too bad. Then u take out the chrome cover and spray it with flat black paint. couple coats, then let it sit. Reinstall. REheat the glue and ur done.

give it a try. Just make sure u heat it good. and also, its not that hard to break the headlights, i use bunch of muscle and pulls to seperate them.
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Postby TLMNICK » Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:15 pm

And what about the corner lights?....is it worth pulling the amber outa those?
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Postby Got2XLR8 NYX » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:48 pm

Its really easy and it shouldn't variate that much from the tutorial for the Gen 1. A good example of a Gen 1.5 with black housing on Black Solara would be Astro's Ride. May that Solara RIP.... damn....

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Postby Toy1mzfe » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:34 pm

not sure about the corner. i have tried it and it seems a bit hard.
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Postby DiamondPearlSolara01 » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:40 pm

The gen 1.5 HID conversion kit looks sick but that is a s*it ton of cash...
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