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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 06:44 PM
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Does anyone here sell Whistler headlights or offer the service of doing them. I have shaky hands and dont wont risk doing them wrong.
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that's why you mask everything off.

if you still can't do that then ebay offers them
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If you are scared to do it yourself, just buy some that are already done. New Era Performance

Click on the picture when it comes up for a larger picture.
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Does anyone here sell Whistler headlights or offer the service of doing them. I have shaky hands and dont wont risk doing them wrong.
Where are you located?
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 07:47 PM
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San Francisco
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I'm the same way and tried to do mine........the only thing I messed up was when I applied the masking tape I used an exacto knife to cut it. Well when I pulled up the tape it pulled a little bit of the relflective coating off.......If you just take in other people's mistakes, you could pull it off no problem......
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Use blue painters tape, masking tape is to sticky.
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I cracked the housing on mine but thats because I didnt leave it int he oven long enough before I tried to pry off the lense. Fortunately it wasnt noticeable and worked fine until I decided to ditch them for halos.
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Originally Posted by A-EZ
I'm the same way and tried to do mine........the only thing I messed up was when I applied the masking tape I used an exacto knife to cut it. Well when I pulled up the tape it pulled a little bit of the relflective coating off.......If you just take in other people's mistakes, you could pull it off no problem......
Thanks alot. So what are some of the key mistakes that I should avoid making
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Thanks alot. So what are some of the key mistakes that I should avoid making
Using too much pressure to pop the lense off the housing is probably one of the biggest. You'll crack it very easilly. Dont be afriad to put it back into the oven for 5-10 minutes longer.

Also use plenty of tape and covering. I made sure to put more than I needed in certian area's, then not using enough.

Even with shaky hands, this is something you should be able to do with ease.
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Yeah be careful of that housing its very brittle, or at least mine was.
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the main thing for me was getting the lense off..i had to keep putting it back in the oven...but anyway it is really easy to do
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is there any custom way to put those in a 1998 trans am
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Yeah, put a Camaro front end on it and effectivly create a Cam AM.
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