light spraying

[Haribo!]

ok if you were to self smoke a jetta headlight....or two, im asuming all youde do is take the front off it then use some glossy black paint? then put the front back on, would this ruin the quality of the light?

[Judderi]

Id say yes it would ruin it. The best way to do it would be to remove the glass and spray the inside of the glass with some propper tint spray found at most car shops like motorworld and halfords.

[Brads MK2 GTI]

But what about the MOT?

[Judderi]

As long as they give out plenty of light and the beam pattern is ok you will be fine.

[Haribo!]

hmm, it sounds abit scetchy, think i`l give it a miss, just picked up my slam panel and lights and it dont look easy to get in, ide probably break them, i`l just wait to see if the place that sells smoked ones ever gets some more stock in

[mk2_singh]

i did this before but on a jap car, and i heated the oven up for 30 minutes, then i stuck the headlamp in there for 20 seconds pulled it out and seperated the glass from the plastic sprayed the plasic with light coat of black spray and used bodywork mastic to stick it back togheter again. worked perfect passed MOT as well, no problem at all. Its only looks smoked in the daytime, but as soon as the lights go on as long as its not too dark it does not really affect lights that much.

[Haribo!]

if you use metalic black paint wont it reflect just as well?