painted the headlights today. i painted the same color as the truck. the silicon is drying right now so i dont have pics of them in yet. maybe tomorrow.


here are a few pics of the process.













what do you guys think so far?

 

thats going to look awesome man!!

 

Does that affect the amount of light put out since there is no reflection? I have thought about doing that myself but was worried that I wouldn't be able to see well at night.

 

Get HID's then you wont have to worry about it

 

thought about doing that with the ebay lights just to see how it would come out can't wait to see yours now

 

That's going to look great. I think you should have used a bigger piece of cardboard during the paint process. haha.

The light output won't change because he didn't paint the reflectors. The part that remains "chrome" is what focuses the light outward. The rest is just decorative.

 

it will not hurt light output. my harley lights are paited the exact same way but black and have the same light output as my chrome ones.

 

Finally man this has been done. Thank YOU!! Breaking the wall of black headlights.

 

it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be. its just trial and error. the only thing that sucks is waiting for the silicon to dry. it takes forever! i installed them just a little bit ago and they look great. exactly how i wanted them. i will take some piccs tomorrow and post them.

 

i was also getting worried about all of these people going in the same direction. dont get me wrong i still like the black, but wow, everyone is joining the crowd. not doing what they like. thanks for the complements from everyone.

 

i was going to go the same direction as you too but i was going to go white .... hopefully soon it will be done

 

AMEN brother, i said that back on the first few pages of the DIY painted headlight thread! Finally a PTM headlight!

Post up the pics JSV!
Ill be losing all my chrome soon so i may do the PTM route to get rid of the headlight chrome as well.

 

If I had a NBS, I'd paint mine white ASAP. I'm tired at looking at chrome and black...

Good job! Way to be creative

 

I've seen several already that have been ptm the truck color. It is nice, though, to see a change. It's gonna look great jsvo! Now that I think about it one of the ones I've seen ptm was red and it looked really sharp.

 

Bright Red and Chrome looks awesome I think.

The red headlights will look good. I about bought a bright red supercab/shortbox with chrome 20's on it, It looks so clean and stands out.