I'm considering painting my headlight housings black on Saturday but i'm wondering will that hurt my light output? Also opinion on wheather to paint the turn signal part or not.

BTW This is going on a silver 6th gen coupe

 

If you do it correctly, and don't paint the rear reflector part, the max it could hurt your output is 1-2% or so I would say. To be honest tho, I think it actually focused the light into more of a line tho, which I like!

 

I dont think it hurt the output at all but i got HIDs the next day soo....I would have to agree maybe a tiny tiny bit but nothing noticable

 

i'm debating doing that too.. is that a pretty easy thing to do?

 

NO!!!!! But it is very doable.

 

It's quite easy just time consuming.

 

When painting. DO NOT paint behind the bulb or to the left and right of the bulb. You can paint right below the bulb. This will reduce glare into on coming traffic and some glare that light up the road signs.

 

I will be putting in my 2003 acura TL hids in to blakchousign next week i will post pictures laterwhen it is installed.....if it works good i will start selling kits w/ them etrofited in stock blakchousings for a price of....say $380 oh yeah u have to get me a set of headlighst too, if headlighst needed add whatever price thet are new from accordstore.

 

If you get a reflective paint, something with metal flakes in it, your light output should be the same. When i painted the headlights on my 03 coupe gunmetal grey, i used a metallic paint which even reflects the blinker (eyebrow) very well.