Thanks

Anyone interested ?

 

Frank I am, want to acquire a set of headlights...working on it

 

What would it cost me to have you guys buy a new set off ebay and paint it then you send me finished product? my cobalt is a lease so i need to keep my stock headlights. Please let me know because I am very interested in doing this.

 

you buy the lights off ebay, then send em to us

 

Yeah, it's the same price > $130 shipped


Thanks guys

 

id be more interested in some all cleared out projector style headlights myself but these are ok.

 

Perhaps we could do that too? ...

Wikky?

 

Question, what prep work are you doing to the surface before painting?

 

why do you always have to flame people? i mean you flamed me because i wanted to get so called "escalade" rims on my cobalt and now you're flaming wikkymaster because he wants to do US a service...wikky i think its a good idea man..because not many people would have the patience to do that.i mean who has the time right?

 

Yes Venom, you are right. $130 shipped is not a bad price. There is a days worth of labor on the colored headlights to do it right. Colormatched would be more expensive. AND that $130 is w/ shipping back to you (5-10 bucks, but so what). There is no harm in paying someone to do you a service, everyone can cook for cheap, but restuarants still make business. It's a matter of prefernce. If they sold colormatched too. I'd be paying right now. I bought an extra set of lights off of ebay ($120), bought primer ($3), bought the colormatched paint (15$ for a pint), bought an airbrush kit I was told would spray the paint ($35), had to buy foam brushes to prototype the lights ($1.50), now I am paying my friend $50 just to mask the bezels and paint them at his shop. That total's near $200 in PARTS, not my labor to take it apart, and put it back together. $130 to have someone who has done it do mine, yeah, I'd be game if I was looking for black.

 

frank- i think he means actual projectors in the lights, no way can i do that lol! all i know how to do is paint the inside and take out the amber corner and for dark age- i just give em 3 or 4 good coats of high temp flat black, no need for prep work, ive had no problems with mine yet, color is still as good as it was when i first did them

 

Is there anyway that I can get the internals of mine carbon fiber wrapped? I think it would be so badass if I could get that done.

 

Are you only going to do black? I want to color code my headlights the victory red, only problem is I don't have a gun...

 

lol you guys might be forgetting im just some 18 year old kid that does it in my house, i only know how to do it the SAME WAY I DID IT TO MINE lol i dont have a shop or anything so no carbon fiber, and no color matched sorry lol

 

I know it costs more, but take them to a respectible paint shop that does auto work, NOT a dealer, and they should be able to paint the headlights to the specified color. Mine are costing me $50 a set to paint, but thats with them sanding, masking, priming, painting, and clearcoating the assembly.

 

make sure its high heat paint or they will melt

 

You might want to think about sanding and using self etching primer before painting. If you were just doing them for yourself it wouldn't be a big deal but you're selling your service, that could be a big deal if there's some future problem with the paint lifting. Here's a simple test, take some 2" masking tape and press it on the black painted surface and give it a good yank...there's a good chance the black paint will come off the plastic chrome.

 

yea everybody is making this a big deal like im trying to start my own business or something lol, i just wanted to know if anybody wanted me to make them some like mine thats all, theres no warrantys or anything lol

 

I knew it was only a matter of time before someone did this. But not soon enough! I was actually expecting it to be more then $130.... but hey, you can't be right all the time

So when can we start sending headlights in? ASAP?

 

It's great that you want to do these but I was just trying to point out what could become a problem ( not saying there will be a problem ), good luck.

 

youll have to wait for frank to get on here sometime later i would imagine, he'll give you the info hes dealing with payments and stuff but im pretty sure you will be sending them straight to me, and when you do, try to use a good box so i can use that box to send them back in lol!

 

Vamp - I just send you a PM! We are ready to accept shipments and payments.

If anyone else is interested, please PM me for details. Thanks.

 

I agree with wanting my lights back but $130 dollars for a custom one off headlight job isn't a lot of money. You got to make it worth his time. Otherwise if he wanted to make peanuts he could just get a mindless job at a fast food place.

 

you arent gonna offer a warranty?!?!

thats really shitty

to make someone pay that much and not stand by ur work really blows

 

He never said anything about warranty, or no warrenty. If you don't want to have wikky do it, do it yourself and stop flaming about a warrenty.....sheesh