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Painting S1 C34 Headlights?

So there seem to be plenty of tutorials on painting or cleaning M35 headlights and even some on the S2 C34 headlights.

What I want to know is if anyone has painting their headlights black or some other colour, obviously not the reflector, but the other chrome bits. As I have spiders and some gunk in there and it just looks bad, seeing as i'm cleaning up the car heaps I thought i'd knock it out of the way now.

Thx 

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12 minutes ago, niZmO_Man said:

Bake/heat headlight, take apart, prep the surfaces, paint, let it dry overnight, assemble, bake/heat.

Bake the headlight so separate the glass from the rest of the assembly? Do you know how hot/how long? and then I guess bake it again to join the headlight back to the assembly? 

Sounds easy enough I guess, do I need to replace the glue or what not that was used to hold the glass to the assembly?

Thanks.

You shouldn't have to replace it, hell it was fine for my R32 headlights (I haven't replaced any butyl in all the lights I've taken apart). I think baking is around 120°C for a few minutes. I use a heat gun these days to soften the glue and avoid messing the oven/melting plastics.

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5 hours ago, niZmO_Man said:

You shouldn't have to replace it, hell it was fine for my R32 headlights (I haven't replaced any butyl in all the lights I've taken apart). I think baking is around 120°C for a few minutes. I use a heat gun these days to soften the glue and avoid messing the oven/melting plastics.

Seems like its not a simple job lol. But yeah I think i'd rather use a heat gun if that works, I'll have to borrow someones or go buy one lol.

 

Thanks for your help.

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