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Offline eightyeightmph

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Re: Cleaning headlight lenses?!
« Reply #20 on: 22 February 2008, 14:09 »
Just buy some lense tint spray from Halfrauds or similar, clean the glass, properly clean the glass then clean it again & just spray from the can! The more coats the darker the lense! :wink:
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Re: Cleaning headlight lenses?!
« Reply #21 on: 22 February 2008, 14:20 »
Just buy some lense tint spray from Halfrauds or similar, clean the glass, properly clean the glass then clean it again & just spray from the can! The more coats the darker the lense! :wink:

Aha, i was right, you do spray them, cheers 88. I think i might do this. Would look better on a darker car.

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Re: Cleaning headlight lenses?!
« Reply #22 on: 22 February 2008, 14:31 »
No worries dude, just make sure they're clean!
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Re: Cleaning headlight lenses?!
« Reply #23 on: 22 February 2008, 18:12 »
Smoked glass will look  :sick: 88mph..

The inerior unit painted black may not be to your taste but most of the nicest black golfs i see have them and you can buy them already done like this and there called E-codes and cost the earth!

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Re: Cleaning headlight lenses?!
« Reply #24 on: 22 February 2008, 18:20 »
Smalish paint brush jobbie and i just bought some Matt Black paint form motor world..

A steady hand and some black silicone to re seal them  :wink:
how were you rite mikester? the dude said how he did it!lol!

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Re: Cleaning headlight lenses?!
« Reply #25 on: 22 February 2008, 18:30 »
If you spray the glass you will end up with a black peice of glass as your head light.....

Niiiiiiiiiiice  :grin: :huh:

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Re: Cleaning headlight lenses?!
« Reply #26 on: 22 February 2008, 18:38 »
looking cool rich, nice work :wink:

Ecode name is actually what the yanks call our standard lights, as they are E coded (european) just thought id throw that one in (have a vw mate over in the states :laugh:)

they dont have the same headligh units as us or headlight switches either, they go mad for our spec

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Re: Cleaning headlight lenses?!
« Reply #27 on: 22 February 2008, 18:40 »
E-Code just means european light dude, just the yanks name for them!! :wink:

Someone (on vortex I think?!) smoked the headlights, also available 'off the shelf'  :rolleyes: & I think the look better than E-Codes. Just my opinion, & no, smoked tint spray doesn't give you 'black glass' for a headlight.

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Re: Cleaning headlight lenses?!
« Reply #28 on: 22 February 2008, 18:47 »
Never seen a set of smoked headlights that dont look totally gash and just like black/dark glass.
E codes are also what people over here call smoked standard lights as they were only released in the states

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