Painted my Headlights! DIY [Video] + lots of photos

[krsgio]

Decided to crack open my headlights again and do the projector retrofit to the G5-BRT projectors. I'd highly recommend doing this mod if you decide to do the headlight de-chrome. While opening the butyl was far easier than the OEM perma-seal it was significantly more messy and sticky. Highly recommend the G5 bracket and G5-BRT projectors from lightwerkz. Pretty much a plug and play affair while still being able to use stock ballast/igniters and bulbs. While the install is fairly straight forward there were some gotcha moments that n2siast was extremely helpful giving info on how he overcame certain things. If anyone decides to tackle this DIY I'm glad to pay it forward with some tips/tricks for the install. Output is significantly more defined and colorful than stock well worth the $220 that I should have just done the first time I had the headlights opened up.

 

[n2siast]

Output looks incredible and so much better than stock, you can actually see the a lot more of road ahead of you. I'm glad I went this route. And as you mentioned, KRSGIO, I'm always will to lend any advise or a hand if anyone local is looking to get this done.

 

[nguyentoogood]

That's a sharp cut off line. I bet it's a blast to drive at night.

 

[Sanderpman12]

Here are some more photos off my phone,

whats the sideskirts and front spoiler you got on called? link plz

 

[zabloct]

I did that customization with the paints suggested, its been great looking but only first year. After now 4 years since the customization I have lots of big bubbles on the black paint from the sun exposure, so it's time to do it again. Looking at the new revision it looks much better. Sadly author doesnt share the product used for whitish look so this time I am gonna try to use epoxy coatings instead of regular paint but will have to experiment with the addons...

 

[S-ALSET]

I also had mine done and I'm having the same problem with bubbles from the sun heat I guess...
They looked great for 2 years though...

 

[zabloct]

Mine looks kinda funny tbh, the bubbles didnt explode but I love v2 so I am going to experiment with epoxy resin to see if I can make diffusing white coat on the transparent part, for the black I am gonna try black poliuretan coat. In general these resins can survive higher temperatures.

 

[krsgio]

I haven't had any issues with bubbles on mine