Just wanted to say thanks to everyone on the forum. All the info provided let me take on this project.

Removed my headlights, was able to do it without taking my whole bumper off. Didn't want to take a chance removing the bumper since I did it by myself. Just removed the upper clips, the one screw in the wheel well and the first three (2 clips, 1 screw) closest to the tire.


Time to bake. I did 350 for about 5-6 mins at a time. Would work loose a section and reheat if needed.


Ummm smells like cookies. Removed the 4 screws holding the chrome piece


Now time to paint. I used dupliColor adhesion promoter and Krylon flat black all from Advanced Auto


Heated everything back up and put back together


All right back on the car


Oh and while I was at flat blacked the emblem to.



Again thanks to everyone for posting DIYs

 

Looks fukin sick bro
Good work!

 

B-U-TEE-FULL!! wonderfull job!!!

 

great job on it looks awesome!

 

looks great. im so scared to do this mod... im afraid ima mess something up

 

This was the first timed I had ever tried doing my headlights, I just took my time on everything and read all the DIYs I could find on it.

 

looks nice and unique, job well done.

 

thats awesome

 

nice! i tried to bake open my tails... but it didnt become soft at 200 F like some DIYs say...

*edit* 350 got it.. i cant read... the pictures look too pretty... lol

 

what kind of sealant did u use to seal them back up?

 

I got some seal-all from advanced auto, but didn't use it yet. I'm going to wait for the first wet day and see what happens. If I get any moisture in them I'm going to use it. It only took me 10 mins to take out the headlights if I need to do it again. Its suppose to rain tomorrow so I'll see if I get lucky.

 

I tried to pull it off without breaking the tabs, but no luck. You can get to the little metal retainer clips in the back after take the grille off. But the little tabs break off pretty easy. I used the same paint technique as I did on the lights. Then some double sided 3m tape and a dab of glue in the tab holes

 

Sick. But I'm with all those who are too afraid to take apart their own headlights.

Do you have any more pics from other angles?

 

Very nice job. Plus rep.

 

Man I gotta do this to mine...

 

Ditto X2


we got have to do this. lets set up a day and do both our cars






again great job. i want to do this so bad.
plus i want to take care of that reflector also.
+ rep to you sir

 

LOL haha this is what i did but i was afraid of posting it up on here.....Its better then paying $419 for the real base headlights.

 

Baking you lights is not really that hard to do. It just takes patience and some time. I did baked open my stock RSX light to do this mod. I also had the guts to open up my $1500 retrofits to modify them.

I'm looking forward to doing this mod once I get my Fit. I'll try to mask off the rings on the turn signal and low/high beam area and just paint the backing of the hosing black.

 

Looks great but I don't like the flat black Honda logo, the chrome ties the left over chrome from the headlight cluster nightly.

 

Very nice...! +rep

I too would like to do this..but I'm scared.