Headlight tint, choose a way of tinting headlights with your own hands

The car for men is an expensive, beautiful toy. And you want to decorate your favorite toy. Therefore, tuning is produced. And Toning Fat, is one of the popular tuning phenomena among our car enthusiasts. Moreover, the toned headlights are not only stylish and beautiful, but also toning can protect the car from scratches, chips and other damage - and this is important, given the high cost of spare parts. Total Toning FAT is a wonderful thing, but this action costs a lot of money. Therefore, if you want to save, you have to make tinting headlights with your own hands.

Headlight tint what to consider when choosing a tone

Car enthusiasts should understand that headlight tinting is an important process, since your safety and safety of the oncoming machines depends on the depth of dim or toning.

Fully black lights look stylish and luxurious, especially if they are on a white or black car.

But, before you should be the goal not only to decorate the car, but also prevent the hazard when driving a car in the dark, since a significant dimming car headlight reduces the brightness of the headlight and increases the likelihood of entering the traffic accident in the dark.

In addition to the inconvenience of the car enthusiast, the traffic police may be fined for incorrect tinting of automotive headlights.

Based on the above, do not chase black headlights, and pay attention to the headlights, which toned a separate area.

If you produce tuning the upper headlight line, which is located along the hood cut, you will get very stylish narrowed lights.

And you can offer a variant of the full light tinting of the headlights, such headlights look very well and their light light ability is reduced slightly.

Headlight tint what methods can be toned with their own hands

In practice there are two popular methods of tinting headlights.

Toning headlights can be done using a special film. Toning using a special film is the most economical way.

In addition to the relatively low price, the advantage of such a method can be attributed to the rapid and easy removal, if necessary, the applied film from the FAT surface.

The second method of tinting headlights - tinting using aerosol varnish.

This method will be able to provide even, reliable, for a long time tinting.

But if you need to remove the tint, it will be very difficult to remove it, since the paint can hold out to 7 years.

Therefore, if you want to tint headlights for a long time, we recommend using this option, and if you are not sure, take advantage of the tinting of the headlights with the film.

Tinting headlights using a film, step-by-step instruction

Any work requires preparatory stages.

When toning headlamps, you need to purchase a car film in a specialized car store and prepare tools:

  • comfortable knife, with a sharp thin blade;
  • a couple of pieces of soft, clean vet;
  • means for degreasing and cleaning the surface of the headlights;
  • industrial dryer.

Having come to the store of auto parts, you must pick up a film that will suit you in color, in thickness, the percentage of stretching.

Thickness and the percentage of film stretching determines the quality.

A more dense film is able to securely protect your headlights from the emission of dirt and stones from under the wheels.

The film can have a red, blue and yellow shade.

But the most popular is a black matte film.

The red film gives the light headlights with a red shade, and this is fraught with a fine of the employees of the auto inspection.

Choosing a suitable film and prepare the necessary tool, proceed to work.

If you do anything slow and carefully, get a good result.

  • The first step is to dismantle headlights. Headlights need to dismantle carefully to damage anything, if you can not, attract the helper. Many professionals do without dismantling headlights
  • The second step is to clean the headlights. Using a special solution or alcohol, carefully clean the headlights from dust and dirty layers. Wipe dry all clean piece of fabric. Give the time to Farm to dry completely.
  • The third step is to close the headlights that you will not be toned. The pasting can be carried out with a dry or wet, a soap solution is used when wet.Professionals are recommended to make a sticker with a dry way. Dry method allows you to make pasting better. But the wet method is easier.If you decide to glue with a wet method, use a weak soap and water solution.
  • The fourth stage is the task of giving the form by the automotive film. Heated car film with an industrial hair dryer, you make it more elastic and able to take the shape of the car headlight.Preheat elastic film attach to the surface of the headlight and smooth it with a soft dry cloth.

If your car has a flat headlight, working on flat surfaces is more simpler, smoothing the film on flat headlights, can be a simple plastic card.

Community advice:

  • the work room should be well lit;
  • all excess pieces of film, clean with a sharp thin blade;
  • if the surface is convex or concave, make a subtle, sharp impact blade and remove the excessive film Do not create folds on the film;
  • if you used the wet method - at the end of the work, the film should dry the hour 2-3.

When headlight toning work will be completed, install headlights in place.

 

Headlight tint how to tint with an aerosol cartridge

 

Aerosol varnish for tinting headlights is quite expensive.

But you can save, uniting with any other car enthusiast, as the varnish is enough for headlight processing of two or three cars.

The advantage of tinting headlights by aerosol varnishes is concluded in ease of work and in time saving, and efforts.

You do not even need to dismantle the headlights.

The original task is yours - thoroughly flushing the surface of the headlight glass and remove fat from the surface with alcohol.

The next step is to cover the body elements, it is best to close with a cellophane film with a painting tape. Varnish is applied in several layers, not allowing outers.

So you will achieve the desired dimming. Instructions are attached to the lacquer package and the instructions are advised how many layers need to be applied.

But professionals are advised to apply one layer more, thereby achieving tinting accuracy, but do not forget that multi-layered leads to a decrease in the light headlights.

Professional advice:

  • applying the first layer, squeeze all hard-to-reach places;
  • distribute varnish uniformly;
  • give each layer of varnish to dry for a few minutes;
  • practice on a small piece of glass and you will understand how many layers of varnish is necessary to achieve the desired darkening depth. Training on the glass will help not spoil you lacquer headlights;
  • permissible loss of light lights from 7% to 15%, if you exceed, you will have problems with the traffic police.

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