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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.

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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?

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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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