Blacked out lights Or Honeycomb stuff advice

[mattfinch]

Hi all

 

I have a Gunmetal Zed with black badges and thought it would look good to have black/smoked lights all round. I don't really want to take them apart to spray ,so does anyone know a UK seller that sells the standard lights in black.

 

Also does anyone know about the honeycomb stuff that people put over there lights. Looks quite good from a small distance and I recon this option is cheaper then new lights

 

Any pics will help too

 

Thanks

[Scott TMN]

I too am looking to tint my headlights. Have done for ages, and a while back I did buy some tinting film, but it had a hint of purple

 

The honeycomb stuff you mean is called 'flyeyes' or 'spi vision'.

Used it before on a previous car, very easy to apply, very cheap but does reduce light output quite a bit.

[StevoD]

personally i think this fly eye gear is the tackiest @*!# going, but then your car aint mine

 

[mattfinch]

Thanks guys, I think the best ones are the standard lights sprayed inside. All the ones I find on the internet for the front don't work if you have standard HIDs. They all seem to be for the zed that come without HID's for JDM, USA etc

[AliveBoy]

tried flyeyes on my headlights a few years back, it looked crap so I removed it.

[mattfinch]

Thanks all I think I'll be giving the flyeyes and film tints a miss then

[Scott TMN]

Nothing wrong with tint films I guess, I'm just still in search for a good quality film lol

[pjf1985]

I tried flyeyes before and wasn't all that impressed. Been contemplating painting the insides or using a tint film. Let us know what you go for!

[coldel]

MoT fail. Anything that reduces the light output is a fail.

 

Although some people have reported on here them getting through - I wonder if the MoT tester was their drinking buddy or something though!

[buster]

had mine done with a smoked film....will be the first to say your gonna need to change the bulbs to 6000k from 4300k.. and then its not brillant

 

 

[Dannyg]

I had mine baked and they are DARK! Never had an issue with MOTs or police and they still let enough light through

[mattross1313]

+1 on most of the above. My better half had Fly-eye on the rear lights of her Evo - looked really cheap & crap from any distance. We now have some good quality tint film and they look far better. Buy cheap, buy twice etc etc.