Painting gen1 fog lights chrome black on a black LS?

[Justin00LS]

Anyone done this before? I was going to sell my LS but I've decided to keep it Thinking about painting the chrome all black and putting better projectors in them. I'm not digging the rectangular foglights

 

[dNyce LS]

Wow. Even tho the car is your sig, I always just looked and saw an lse bumper lol

 

[LeaSr77]

Anyone done this before? I was going to sell my LS but I've decided to keep it Thinking about painting the chrome all black and putting projectors in them. I'm not digging the rectangular foglights

Yes a member done this already. Let me try to find the thread and I'll post it.

 

[Justin00LS]

Yes a member done this a few already. Let me try to find the thread and I'll post it.

Thanks! I tried the search, would be very interested in seeing the results!

 

[LeaSr77]

Here it is: http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/se...1260172741&type=1&notif_t=photo_album_comment

 

[manoli]

Im thinking of wrapping the fogs with black and cutting a hole in the middle of the vinyl, kind of give it the LSE fog look when they are on.

 

[Justin00LS]

Here it is: http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/se...1260172741&type=1&notif_t=photo_album_comment

I logged into Facebook but still can't get that link to work??

 

[LeaSr77]

You shouldn't have to log into Facebook. You should be able to just click on it from the thread and it will open up.

 

[Ben's LS]

Link won't work for me either

 

[LeaSr77]

Dam I don't know why. Well do this. Go to the search feature and search under the user name KleenLS and browse all the thread that he started and you should find it. I think it's on the first page.

 

[Ben's LS]

Yeah it's right near the top of the page

 

[DENNISJR60]

Im thinking of wrapping the fogs with black and cutting a hole in the middle of the vinyl, kind of give it the LSE fog look when they are on.

That's exactly what I've been wanting to do on my Gen2 fogs. I was hoping you could buy the vinyl pre-cut for the fogs as I'm horrible when it comes to that stuff. I want to cover the light in gloss black vinyl to match the gloss black paint on the bumper & just have the circle in the middle clear where the light shines through.

 

[LeaSr77]

I had a friend who did something similar to what you guys are talking about except he painted the lenses and left a circle so the light can shine through. It looked okay but the light still emitted through the paint. I guess he didn't put enough coats of paint on the lens. So the thing is if you want it to look right make sure that the vinyl won't allow excessive light to pass through.

 

[manoli]

Black vninyl 3m down the street from my house is 10 bucks and you could probably do 4 fogs out of it easily.

 

[M4rk]

Black vninyl 3m down the street from my house is 10 bucks and you could probably do 4 fogs out of it easily.

Will very likely melt from the heat, unless you run HID/LED fogs. Many that ran incandescent bulbs in Lamin-x'd lights ended up burning the foil.

As for Gen II, it might work out since our fogs only shine through a small circle.

 

[Justin00LS]

I've attached his pictures (pictures from kleenLS) to make it easier to see. I'd like to do something similar to this on my first gen but I would want to put the clear plastic lens on the front as well to protect my projector and I think it'll look more OEM. Curious if that'll look good or not.

 

[Justin00LS]

I would like to use the same size projector as used in the low beams (2.5" diameter lens). I hope it doesn't look too big or out of place in the fogs... I think the current projector used just looks too small in my fogs if I were to paint the housing black.

 

[jdmans101]

man your projectors you retrofitted in the lows look great! Somehow doing that in the fog I think would fit good. Didnt alax or another member do the same thing in the fogs I thought?

 

[Alax7]

Those projector fogs above are the ones KleenLS did. I did some a while back but took they off because my tire step on the wiring while driving and ripped $hit up, never got around to replacing until I got the lse bumper on.

Another member did have projectors in the fogs, I thought it was justing that had them, no?