I have read on here that painting the headlight housings black on our headlights can cause the light output to decrease? Is this true? Does anyone have any pics of their lights on with painted headlight housings? I'm not sure I want to do it now if it does decrease the amount of usable light....

 

Mine has been painted for a year now and I dont see any decrease in light. Theyre still the same bright as the stock.

 

Yah.. I didn't think so.... I mean the MR comes with them so what would be the difference?

Thanks

 

EVODAVE did my headlights and there is no noticeable difference to me at all.

Derek

 

Ok. Thanks I'm still doing it!

 

yes no difference on any of the people i have done it for!! It comes stock black on the MR in japan so it must be good....hehe

 

How could the light output decrease? You are not painting the reflector assembly for the fogs or brights, and the HID are projector type (as opposed to reflector type) so they don't even have anything to paint.

 

Is that another set of fog-light in the bottom of the bumper?

 

Yah.. I know you only paint around the reflectors/projector.... I just read some post that claimed they could hardly see at night now because they painted their headlight housings black..... But that would not effect anything since the reflectors are still chrome. They said putting them in the oven warps the mounting brackets and the aim of the headlights are throw off... Also if you want to see at night don't do it, and if they had to do it all over again they wouldn't.... So I am not sure? So basically they are saying the problem isn't really in the paint it is in the baking of the housings.... Evodave do you bake them in the oven or heat gun them?

 

Yup. They are Hella foglight/angel eyes I got from Pepboys for $60. It add more brightness than regular foglight.

 

I did mine as well as my taillights. I used a hairdryer on the headlights and the dremel on the taillights. Don't use the oven, it's not worth risking melting the whole assembly. Mine look great, don't leak, or otherwise. It's not a hard job, it just takes time.