Well after dealing with disassembly issues, a bad can of paint, and a damaged grill i finally have my color matched headlights, painted front chevy symbol, and new front grill all installed and imo looking good. Also I removed the chevy symbol from the back in my attempt to remove the gold from the outside of the car. Any input on how to deal with the center caps of the wheels would be appreciated.

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the blue looks nice, infact, the whole thing looks pretty darn good.

 

It does look pretty good, but did you lose any light intensity due to you removing reflective material?

 

I meant to make a comment about the reflection cause i knew the question would come up. The answer is not that matters imo. The lights are still bright enough even during bright sunlight to be seen all around and at night it isn't even close to an issue. The yellow plastic that is left takes care of side views to see the bulb so the reflective area is virtually useless anyway. The only point i can find to the reflective part around the turn signal is to make it bigger looking and so you can't see the bulb itself. I can get over the site of the bulb to have the blue all over.

 

why not get rid of the amber plate?
shoulda painted over it
there is still an amber turn signal on the front side, so im pretty sure its still legal

 

I think leaving the rings around the lights like I did (see sig) woulda been more definitive as headlights, but still nice nonetheless. Atleast someone other than me was willing to do color-matched.

 

This is definetly going to be the first mod I do with my car. Looks amazing, although I agree with Wicked about the rings.

Anyway what paint did you use (mine is Arrival Blue also), and how many coats? I'm assuming you used the same paint for the front chevy emblem (which looks very nice btw), but did you sand and prime that, or just paint it?

About the wheels, I would leave them how they are, but that's up to you.

 

i did color match like two months ago... maybe the first? who knows. just saying...

 

First thanks for all the good comments and critiicism.

I would have liked to remove the other yellow plate but it just looks funny with a hole there. I considered using the circular plate but i like wikky's look so i decided to go that route.

I got the paint for the headlights straight from the dealer and it took 4 cans total, given the cans are smaller than regular paint cans. If you go this route make sure to test the cans before you leave with them cause like i said i did have one bad can out of the 5 i ended up buying that shot a stream. The symbol on the front is actually a different color i came across when looking for something to finish the lights up with, without waiting for more paint from GM, once i found out i had a bad can of paint. The paint is Duracolor metal flake blue. The color on the cap looks almost identical to the arrival blue cap but when actually applied it is significantly lighter. I only sanded the symbol: once with 220 then wetsanded with 600 to get a very smooth finish. The paint coats extremly well even on plastic which was surprising.

 

Um, you're car is black lol, of course it IS color-matched......but I have yet to hear or see anyone actually doing colored headlights (yellow, red, blue, orange) other than me and retrop. Black is kind of a standard. Not wanting to get into a war, but it's harder to match those colors than black.

 

Thanks for the info retrop. I'll post when I get around to doing mine.

 

Sweet man! That looks really good. I love the blue SS

 

yeah, this is true, but ill count it, haha.

 

LMAO
What was the OP about again? lol Oh yea, the blue lights.....keep it up Retrop, just don't do blue underglows or lighting, too much of a nice thing is bad.

 

i woulda painted over it, you still have the yellow bulb in the headlight front for legality, just not 2 of em