Blackout headlights?

[Dawick3don3]

hi has anyone done a blackout on the oem b5 headlights? Ive searched but i cant find anything. I was going to do it today but it looks like i have to shave a rivet it and i want to make sure that i dont mess it up before i have to get another light.

[slopoke]

there are blacked out headlights on ebay.. I think they look ok on black b5's but nothing else

[Jc61990]

ive seen these on ebay i was thinking about buying them

[kevin12]

I just don't think they look good on B5's at all. B6's they look great on tho...

[Dawick3don3]

ive seen the ones on ebay but i rather take 40 in parts and make them myself.. i guess no one on here has done it to a b5.I wish i had an extra pair of lights so i could do it.

[bastosmafka]

i wanna color match my headlights.. i think that would look tits. dont steal my idea! >:[ hahah

[Eurotuned_A4]

i have the ones like posted above. no issues at all and the cheap HID that they came installed with are much better than the non hid 2 piece black out lights i had before.

[dubbin.t.rex]

i wanna color match my headlights.. i think that would look tits. dont steal my idea! >:[ hahah

I've seen it done on a T-Red MKIV JTI, wish I still had the picture. It sounded color than it looked, it might look good with a darker color though...I don't know to each his own.

[pja0750]

i have ones that have a black background that i really like, unlike the the silver background

[slopoke]

anybody have pix installed?

[teamdaraptor]

I painted the insides of mine on my silver b5.. They look so much better than stock IMO.

[onemoremile]

I had these a couple years ago. The car was in an accident and I needed a headlight and these were picked up for a hundred bucks. The high beams were worthless without their reflectors. Otherwise they were fine.

[Jc61990]

have these pieces of poop on my car. I need to get new ones. And I need money to do so.

[Eurotuned_A4]

ill try to snap some with them on my car. Gonna be later though cuz im going in to work.

[Dawick3don3]

I painted the insides of mine on my silver b5.. They look so much better than stock IMO.

i have the same color.. how did you get the case off? you baked it and then pop it off?

[revolution337]

ive seen these on ebay i was thinking about buying them

i have those exact ones from ebay. they are ecodes with black housings. i love them, and they came with pre-installed 6000K HIDs. i think they would only look good on a black car though.

here are mine.

[Quattro 4 Life]

If you're thinking of taking the lights apart and painting it yourself, it is a huge pita. I did it and they turned out okay but not how i would have liked. Getting the light housing apart is a complete joke and if these black ecodes were around when i was thinking of doing this i would have probably done that.

Here's mine though:




Don't mind the black center rings and the blue side markers, they got changed

I ended up cracking a lens and the opposite lens gets really fogged up in cold/moist air conditions but it was a fun process and its my labor, so go with whatever you think man

[Dawick3don3]

If you're thinking of taking the lights apart and painting it yourself, it is a huge pita. I did it and they turned out okay but not how i would have liked. Getting the light housing apart is a complete joke and if these black ecodes were around when i was thinking of doing this i would have probably done that.

Here's mine though:




Don't mind the black center rings and the blue side markers, they got changed

I ended up cracking a lens and the opposite lens gets really fogged up in cold/moist air conditions but it was a fun process and its my labor, so go with whatever you think man

ya bro i was planing on doing it my self.. but when i took the light out and looked at it , it looked like it was going to break.. lol any tips?

[Quattro 4 Life]

ya bro i was planing on doing it my self.. but when i took the light out and looked at it , it looked like it was going to break.. lol any tips?

Yeah the way the lens hooks up to the black housing, the clear housing fits into a U shape (the black part). kinda hard to describe but i cooked those things at 200 or 250 and the longest i tried was about 8-10min and they still wouldn't pull apart at all, so i bent the top part of the U back and the glue could be cut through. So i continued to bend and cut while heating it up with a hair dryer.

Sealed it back up with silicone but the upper part of the U wouldn't fully bend back into position. I could get some plastic cement type stuff if i were you

[onemoremile]

ya bro i was planing on doing it my self.. but when i took the light out and looked at it , it looked like it was going to break.. lol any tips?

My advice is to find something that is actually broken to fix. Or buy aftermarket black lights. I replaced mine with stock S4 housings and a 55w hid kit and didn't even bother clearing the corners.

[terraflata]

i wanna color match my headlights.. i think that would look tits. dont steal my idea! >:[ hahah

Im sure everyone has thought of this at some point. I know I did.

[Gaberossi]

[Coopa]

Dual projectors?^
I'm a little confused

[Jc61990]

No I have te same ones on my car, they are halos only the lows are projectors.

[Gaberossi]

i deleted that annoying bright random led that was on....so now its only the 4 rings

[teamdaraptor]

I'm sure a heat gun would work a little bit better than an oven.. Would be much safer too. You could then actually control the heat and potentially have better results. But yes, that's what I did. Used a heat gun, took the glue off, sanded, primed, painted, sanded, painted, etc., then used a silicon to put back around the edges.

[osofast10]

I had these a couple years ago. The car was in an accident and I needed a headlight and these were picked up for a hundred bucks. The high beams were worthless without their reflectors. Otherwise they were fine.

hahah it's my old headlights

[Poopie]

i bought them, then i sold them to Jim.

[spector]

i have the ones like posted above. no issues at all and the cheap HID that they came installed with are much better than the non hid 2 piece black out lights i had before.

All the ones I see on ebay come with H7 bulbs. Where'd you find the HID ones?

Has anyone used the ebay ones with a DDM slim ballast HID kit?