munky i hope your not mad but i love your lights and needed to show peeps who can do this and test it etc for me dont want know leaks no nothing im just looking into pricing right now so post me pics and some prices thanks guys n gals

 

What in the world are you talking about?

Are you asking how much it costs to paint your lights? umm $3.50, Just go to a hardware store and buy a can, use a hairdryer to heat up your lights, pry em apart then paint. There are also numerous threads on this... just search!

 

i think he wnts people to do this for him...well i don't know of anyone who does it and sells them. I think everyone just did it themselves.

 

It's alienese Mercury, stand back I'm going to try and communicate.



Cleep! Click click clank cop clob clock! Dun-unk click clop cleep!

 

I hate to ask a dumb question, but my husband is offshore so I can not ask him, so here I go. The head lights on the red car in the front picture are painted, not purchased that way?

 

Yes they are painted, personally i wish someone who has done theirs was close to me as I am completely terrified to do mine, I'm scared I'm gonna f them up, somebody help, I can rip an engine apart and rebuild, or install and tune nitrous, but I can't take apart my headlamps, ahh, I'm such a *****...hehe

 

yea those headlights are painted. they look great

 

someone can paint mine ill pay, cuz im too lazy to do it myself. it would be cool to get them like a black chrome look.

 

Yes the headlights have been painted. You can see how it was done here:
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/show...ight=headlight

 

damnit i'm scared!!...hehe

 

Oh cool. Kevin can sooo do that. He has another Honey Doo project when he comes home. Thanks guys. He has to paint my calipers. I already printed him that how too.
Yall are sooooo helpful.

 

its time consuming is all

it took me a couple days all in all.. but worth it in the end

 

yea its not that hard

 

If someone ships me their headlights and pays me 75 us dollars I will do them. + whatever it costs to ship them back of course...

Here are what mine look like

 

yes i want to paint black but i wanna use a new set and i dont wanna risk it leaking kadumel
what color is your lighst and do you have a close up and did you leak test if so we can talk some bizzznessssssss

 

So do you think black or body color on a yellow ss/sc? I hate the chrome on there now...

 

yeah its so easy. look in my garage to see mine

 

If you were close, i'ld do them for you. It took me about 6 hours from start to finish.


05YELLOWSS, I think black would look pretty good. I havent seen anyone that painted them body color yet. Im sort of wondering what it would like yellow though. Cause it might not look to bad. What you could do is, take them out and paint one yellow and one black. them put them back on the car, without the lens cover, and see which one looks better. Then just paint the other headlight to match the one you liked. Then put the completely back together and back on the car.

 

I will get a better picture but they leaked the first time I did them, but I bought new ones and redid and got it down. The first time I used High grade superglue basically and it didn't work, the second time I used black silicone it was perfect. The trick is removing the original silicone.

I can do any color you like in duplicolor.

My lights are black base color and have a pearlescent dark purple color that matches my car as on top. This creates a black looking until you let light hit them, then they color change into car color.

 

I was just curious because the srt-4 guys do a lot of theirs body color and they look hot as hell. But I don't want to go purchase a bunch of rally yellow paint from gm and then paint one and not like it. Then have left over that i will never ever use. I think black is a pretty safe idea, but I wanna be different as well. Not gonna have time to have the car down for long, so having it professionally done is out of the question, but then again I am scared I'm gonna break something if I attempt to do it myself. Do you think a flat black would look better or a high gloss black...hmm I just can't decide what I want to do, everyone give me your opinions please...thanks or if there is someone near me that wants to do mine and has successfully done theirs...that would be great...lol

 

Dude, its like 3.97 a can... You wouldn't even need half a can to do both lights ^ ^...

 

For the actual paint from GM? Not a close rattle can yellow, the exact yellow. Hey if it is that cheap I wouldn't know, I've been in Kuwait the last 3 months and had to send all the parts I ordered over here to just sit and wait for me in my garage, it's gonna be a crazy first week of putting parts on though, that's for sure...

 

3.97 for paint in a can. If you want to order paint you don't order it from GM, you get the paint code and have your local paint store mix it. For your car they probably won't do the minimum amount you need for those headlights, so you will be stuck ordering more then you will ever use on them. Then you have to buy thinner and thin it to the near perfect amount. After that, you will need a gun and booth. Hopefully you know someone with a body shop. Then, sand down your headlights completely. If your going to spend all that money, you might as well do it right. Then you spray your primer, if you want it to be perfect remember you must use the same primer GM used or it could possibly be a tiny tiny tiny bit different. Next, after you spray them, clear them. Make sure you use clear that you buy from the paint store, unless your body shop has some extra. I mean if your not going to buy from a can, then do it the perfect way... Good luck