To all those that have tinted/blacked out your taillights and headlights. What are you using so it doesnt fade?

VHT Nightshades.
http://www.vhtpaint.com/niteshades.html

Has anyone tried or used this? I remember when i used to ride sportbikes alot of the guys on the forum were using it for their rear taillight and had good success

 

maybe the tail lights, but i would never use these on the HID headlights

cant use window tint ?

 

Nightshades + Clear on the tails.

Don't tint headlights. If you have the HID housings, black them out.

 

blacking the housing on them out looks cheap and odd,

window tint is not permanent


factory HID headlights are not cheap to replace, and monkeying with them is not good

 

My GSR does not have HID headlights, I think i will just nightshade the tails Now time to figure out how to get them apart and prep

 

I am off to the shop. i am getting them to put tint on the lights and tails. i will post before and after pictures. this is a better solution then trying to mach tint by spraying them with vht.

 

^ i have heard that tint will fade and or peel. hopefully not, would love to see some pictures. You going to Ziebart?

 

I'm at Garage Works getting it done. They use a tinted rock gard not window tint. I went with the darker one. They also have clear, yellow, red and others.

 

Blacking the housing looks cheap and odd? I understand that you're entitled to your own opinion, but that seems to go against the grain.

Of course the headlights are expensive, and you don't want to ruin anything, but done properly... I don't think that "cheap" and odd really fit...

 

just a opinion from the ones i seen, i just like the factory headlights the way they are, i would use the money for other items,

let me know how the tint comes out, i like to see some detail pics im thinking of having my tailights done

 

agrred!

 

We are talking about the same thing right?

The "free" mod (well, cost of spraypaint) that you throw your lights in the oven, separate the lens from the housing, black out the chrome pieces, reassemble.

I had black paint, so it actually cost nothing.


Regardless, the OP can't do it anyway because of the reflector housings. It doesn't matter if it looks good if your lights don't work as lights anymore

 

I wanna c some one tint the outside housing... I havent seen many pics

 

Well they are done here are some pictures.

Before, headlights.

Rears before


Front after

Rears after, right one is un touched.

front lights on, no high beam.

 

Eh...unsure about the front but the rears look awesome!