Painted Headlights & Switchbacks
 

So i took the plunge this weekend and got a shit ton of LEDs to swap out all the regular bulbs on the whole car. It also inspired me to paint the lights. Here is the pictures of my progression

Masked
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First coat
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Unmasked vs still masked
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Mocked up
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In the car shots
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Looks good man what switchbacks did you buy?

Standard eBay units. These are exactly what i got and i also bought a ton of other LEDs so i could trade out all the parking, license plate, headlight and interior lighting to LED

http://pages.ebay.com/motors/link/?nav=item.view&id=251914574902&alt=web

Ohh nice, I've been waiting on diode dynamics but the switchbacks are out of stock

Any more pics of the switchbacks. Maybe from the front ? Looks good !

Holy shit... Why would you pay those prices. eBay homie... Same shit.. Less cash!


Ill get a video or a picture soon. They look good. I have been driving around with the parking lights on because they are like bad ass DRLs for all intensive purposes.

Haha they where recommended to me from bass and they look more subtle than the ebay ones but I might just get some and give them a try what's the bulb number again? If you have a link to the ones you got I would appreciated

These are exactly what I got. The bulb is a 3157

http://pages.ebay.com/motors/link/?n...574902&alt=web

LEDs pull almost no amperage so you will have to wire in the resistor. You can pay an arm and a leg to get the leds with the resister inside... not worth it.

Looks good. Any important prep you did for the headlights?

That newspaper headline is racist

Do switchbacks stay on the entire time the car is running, or will they turn off with the headlights? Ive wanted some but I think they would look weird during the day with red halo's.

basically I'm wondering if its possible to only have the white part of the switchbacks on at night.

Looks great, I need to take the plunge and paint the backs of my headlights. Been scrolling the retrofit thread hard.