Anyone tried opening up their headlights to give them the VRX black look? It would be much cheaper to DIY than pay $300 plus for the real thing.
I have seen it done to many cars but have never tried it myself.
So I am going to do this one day soon but I want to know how hard it is to crack the water seal between the clear plastic lens & the back plastic headlight body.
Some say whack the headlight in the oven to soften the adhesive but I am 99% sure they use Sikaflex sealant which is mostly unaffected by heat.
Anyway I think that it would need to be plastic melting heat before that stuff would give up its grip.
So is this oven heating first procedure just a Placebo affect?

Unless there is an easier way I am going to put a tiny bend in the tip of a hacksaw blade at 90 degrees & sharpen it to a point & try that. I will make the blade very thin so it will slide down inside the grove between the two surfaces and then turn it to one side so the 90 degree blade will slip under the clear lens & cut the sealant, then I should be able to pull it around the whole light "I Hope". It looks good on paper anyway!

I have also seen a hobby chisel set that had a sharpened tool just like what I need but I cant remember where I saw it.
tool will look like this i hope:
http://i44.tinypic.com/2agq5ip.jpg

yes, White has done it, so one I know of for certain, possibly others as well. if you check his ride thread for pictures, he may even have detailedhow he got them open, if not just pm him

Last I heard, as I recall, he had trouble getting the right sealant. Up to that point he was going to do this for others, on an exchange basis, but then he stopped.

Ok thanks guys