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Old 02-10-2011, 07:53 PM
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Default Body color painted Audi HID headlights

I was thinking about painting my Audi style head lights body color.
sort of like this:


but body color like the new corvettes (my car is light pewter metallic)
my car is a 2000 camaro SS.

opinions?
too ricer?
stylish?
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I say leave it as is! Looks good!
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I say go for it
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Go for it. If you don't like it then just paint them back to black.
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Do it!
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It looks good to me just like it is. It breaks up the front end some. You mentioned they were "audi" style, but what type of headlights are those? I really like them.
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Originally Posted by 67SS&99SS
It looks good to me just like it is. It breaks up the front end some. You mentioned they were "audi" style, but what type of headlights are those? I really like them.
I searched ebay for "audi camaro" or something like that



also, so far opinions are mixed 50/50
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Photoshop? I don't feel like doing it right now..

Cheap and easy first! PS a pic!
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your headlights look badass, if you paint them yourself put them back on the car without the clear plastic over it, so if you decide you don't like it, it'll be easier to paint again
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I think it would look good.. you should be the 1st to try it out
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Some of you fail to realize, like he said, those aren't actually his headlights. He has the same ones but not modified. Those were taken apart, LEDs removed, and painted semigloss black. Either way OP, I would go for it. I've been planning on doing it for the longest time now. Just can't figure out what kinda headlights I wanna get. There is one car on here I've seen it done too. It was a blue SS with the stock headlights painted to match. I can't remember who's car it is for the life of me though. Some of you may know which car I'm talking about. Its a HOK blue IIRC, with I think CCW's, and ghost flames.
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I think they look good now. They have the whistler mod look! Now you just need smoked corner lights.
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I'd leave it. Corvettes get away with it because it looks Like the headlights are a part of the body and follow the lines. Your camaro would look good with the lights blacked like they are. Gives it a nice contrast
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i think if you body color them it will wash out the front of your car and make it look a little off.

but the flat black you currently have on them really looks great on your car. i would like to see pics of the whole front end as it sets
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Originally Posted by squee
Some of you fail to realize, like he said, those aren't actually his headlights. He has the same ones but not modified. Those were taken apart, LEDs removed, and painted semigloss black. Either way OP, I would go for it. I've been planning on doing it for the longest time now. Just can't figure out what kinda headlights I wanna get. There is one car on here I've seen it done too. It was a blue SS with the stock headlights painted to match. I can't remember who's car it is for the life of me though. Some of you may know which car I'm talking about. Its a HOK blue IIRC, with I think CCW's, and ghost flames.
Oh man, if someone could dig up pics of that car that would be great
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Originally Posted by blackbyrd
i think if you body color them it will wash out the front of your car and make it look a little off.

but the flat black you currently have on them really looks great on your car. i would like to see pics of the whole front end as it sets
Yeah thats my fear. Somehow it works on the vettes, but probably would not on the camaro like babbage1109 said

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I say def leave em black , I think our cars need them to break the front end up like said before. Once I did the whistler mod I thought my front end looked 10x better and I have a Z.
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Try it and if you don't like it change it back. I'm curious as to what it will look like
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Ive actually thought about this myself, I vote do it I want to see the outcome!


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