Been looking for smoked e-codes for ages & finally found a site that stocks them. Got a bit of a shock when I saw the price :screwy: searched the tex and came across the “Joey mod”. It looked pretty champion so I decided to give it a go.
This is the way I did mine but feel free to deviate.
Here are some of the materials I used:
1) Set of headlights
2) A can of black high heat spray paint
3) Small and large paint brush
4) Clear silicone sealant
5) Masking tape
6) Tinfoil
7) Butter knife
Ear buds & Nail polish remover
9) Flat Screwdriver
Let’s get started:
Step 1: Removing the front glass lens from the headlight.
Remove the 4 metal clips securing the glass to the headlight backing using a flat screwdriver.
Preheat the oven to 100 degrees Celsius.
Once ready, pop the first headlight into the oven (yes the oven =) ) for around 60 – 90 seconds. This is totally safe and will cause the sealant to soften. Using a butter knife pry the glass away from the plastic backing. It should pull apart relatively easily.
Step 2: Prepping for paint
Using masking tape, mask off the edges you want the paint to go. You only want to be painting the rough chrome parts; the smooth parts reflect the light and should be left alone.
Take note: The chrome reflective paint peels off rather easily so work cautiously. To combat the tape pulling off the chrome paint, stick the tape to your shirt a few times to remove most of the stickiness. This is a highly important step, the tape should barely stick.
Step 3: Paint
Spray some black high heat paint into a cup with a tinfoil surround.
Using the big & small paintbrushes give the light a few coats of paint until nice and even.
Take note: We noticed when painting close to the masking tape that the paint tended to get absorbed into the tape and run up into areas of the light we didn’t want painted. It was decided a vinyl type tape could possibly be a better option in preventing this. This wasn’t really an issue – refer to step 4.
Step 4: Remove tape & cleanup edges
Take care when removing the tape.
Touchup any parts you might have missed.
Using an ear bud dipped in nail polish remover clean up any bad edges.
Take note: The nail polish remover works a treat but if kept on the surface too long it will eat into that precious chrome paint, therefore use as little as possible and clean it up shortly after with a soft damp cloth or kitchen paper.
Step 5: Refitting the glass
Re-silicone each light unit, fit glass and refit the metal clips.
You are done!!!
Stand back and give yourself a pat on the back and admire your handy work. Smoked e-codes WTF!!! :laugh:
Not too sure but im thinking this is the first mk3 joey mod performed on South African soil.
Bigups to Joey for making this mod possible!
Some car punt pics :thumbup: :thumbdown:
:P