yellow high beam tint

[robopineapple]

Hey fellas, im about to attempt my first diy project B)

i will be painting my high beams yellow on my 78 510 wagon. i just gotta run to the store and pick up a paintbrush and i will be on my way. quick question before i leave though... do you guys think that the sealed bulb (12v ge 4001) would be okay in a oven? lol if not ill make it work somehow!

[K_trip]

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[robopineapple]

i wanted to try something new, ja feel? haha. one of my high beams is bad anyways so im going to end up buying a new pair soon enough. if it comes out bad then no biggie, ill just buy the new ones sooner. 

 

just got back from the store so ill get started! 

[robopineapple]

Dont be a dunce like me and forget to clean the glass before doing this!! 

supplies: Pebeo Vitrea 160 Glossy Glass Paint 45-Milliliter Bottle, Sun Yellow, Pebeo Vitrea 160 Glass Paint Thinner 45-Milliliter Bottle, and a weird squidgy paint brush thingy. 

 

Mix the yellow paint well:

 

Just need a little bit of paint, it goes a very long way. i wasted almost all of this...:

 

Add some of the paint thinner, dont need mutch of this either. i did about 1:1. maybe like a 2:1 paint thinner being more:

 

Mix them together. this is what mine looked like after i mixed it up:

 

Use the brush and do a lighter coat brushing only up and down, make sure to get all of the glass (around the bubbles if you have them like me). I also went around the edge just in case: 

 

Now repeat on the second one and BAM!! haha:

 

I went over the left one with a bit more paint so they match now. 

Now i am going to let them sit for about a day or so. I heard that this paint works best if put in the oven after they have sat for a day. I dont think it is a very good idea with light bulbs though!

I will take a picture of them in like eight hours and again closer to a full day. we will see how i feel about the oven at that point!

 

I hope you enjoyed and that this has inspired so far! Thanks! :thumbup:  

[Dawa]

i just bought 3m transparent yellow film from ebay

(when i did a set of foglights)

[robopineapple]

i wanted to try something new, only took like five minutes also. just the waiting for it to dry is a little painstaking. i hardly used any of the paint i bought as well, i could do so many sets if i wanted to with that little amount of paint. pretty radical

[Laecaon]

Eh, not very yellow looking, bet it will fade.

 

I would go with yellow film every time.

[robopineapple]

ill take a picture of them on the car here in a minute, i put them on to see what they looked like. im impressed with them, but to each his own i believe is the term slung around here  :rofl:

[robopineapple]

this was like four hours ago right after i put them back on. they look yellow to me!

[TENDRIL]

i think its looks pretty yellow but as far it actually having a yellow hue at night i don't think its thick enough, if its more for daylight looks great job! 

[robopineapple]

thanks tendril for the positive feed back haha im not to worried about the hue actually being yellow, more for just appearance. we will see though! 

[Laecaon]

Paint and film were never meant to change the light color. I do like this more than the krylon spray. But to me, painting your lights is to be like the lemans production cars running yellow lights, you should do it like the race cars, film.

 

Actual yellow lights are fog lights.

[wayno]

I did mine with the krylon paint july of 2012, and they look just like when I did them, no fading that I can see, or pealing either.

I think it is the easiest way to do it, paint them and install the next day, and I still have enough to do several more sets.

[DREWSDIME]

I used stained glass paint , I think it worked pretty good

[Suspect]

I did these lights with stain glass paint, it was hard to find, couldn't find yellow at the time, tested out with red.

 

[robopineapple]

red looks bad ass! thats all this paint really is, glass stain 

[sick620]

my headlights stained with krylon

 

[JoeCool]

I think they turned out well. I would love to do mine in yellow, may just get some 4x6 yellow fog lights though.

[robopineapple]

i really dont like the way the krylon paint looks to be honest, or at least on the one. they look dusty and cheap. idk haha i love mine even more every time i see them

[graveltrapp]

I have a set of Cibie high beams that are yellow from the factory, when I get them on it is as if the sun came out. They were well worth the $50 or so bucks I payed plus they use standard h4 bulbs and have that cool flat lens like the Hella's have

[VintageRice]

Mine with Rattlecan krylon.

 

 

[robopineapple]

Those look great

[sick620]

wagner headlights are only 10 bucks a piece at oreillys

[DaveyDaveDaveDave]

 Lookin good! I dig the later wagons.  Wanna do up a set for me?  Im lazy and have stuff to trade :P

[robopineapple]

send 'em my way buddy! haha