DIY amber lens for civic

Disclaimer: The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!


Aim: To get your corners amber for 15$

Required: *Amber lens dye. (i got this from autobarn)
*oven
*silicon
*somthing to pry with

Steps: ok this is for and eg,
1. pop your bonnet and remove the bulb with assembly with a simple twist and the screw holding your corner in.

2. slide out your corner by pulling foward

3. Preheat your oven to 120 and while your doing this get a tray and a damp cloth. place the damp cloth over the tray and put your corner (do one at a time) on it. chuck it in the oven for about 10 minutes. note i say 10 minutes but you need to keep a constant eye on it if you notice the lens warping take it outa thur.

4. ok take her out and somthing like a butter knife and try to pry one corner of the coner lens from its housing. Once you pry a little bit the rest comes of easy (kind of a tearing paper sound). if you cant pry it off chuck it in the oven for a little longer. important : dont apply any great force to the lens face while really hot as it can warp. so hold it with mittens or somthing by the housing.

5. now we can start painting. If you want you can give the inside a quick clean but i didnt bother. shake your lens dye really well and apply even lights coats leaving 20 or so minutes in between coat. when tac dry. place it over your housing again to reveal it true colour.

6. when ur happy with the depth of colour apply silicon to the edges make sure you get a decent amount and no gaps and hold it in place ( i wrapped in in a towel tightly)

7. repeat for other lens matching the colour to ur 1st one and refit them to your car when dry.

8. reattatch bulbs and check they both work.
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Other comments

mine turned out better than i had ever hoped oh and dont go washing ur car straight away eather let them dry for at least a day.

looks hella sweet. gona do it to my stock sidies now

great d.i.y dude.. now pplz dont have to buy them for $50 a pair lol.. *thumbs up..

ahhh thats good....
nice writeup

hmmmzzz... im still contemplating doing that 2 my EG...
i got clear lenses and my car is a dark metalic blue w/light pearl... i was told its a bmw m3 dark blue...

wat do u finkz ppl???
i need some ppl 2 persuade me in doin this... cant decide...
pix might help...

What happens if u do it to the outside?

nothing will happen. it does the same job, but u have to put clear coat on

Beautiful.

looks good. now to source the dye.

any1 done thiS?? wanna hear some resultz...

yea ive done this a couple of months back. but i did it on the outside. it was a 2 min job. but i didnt put a clear coat on it and now its starting to fade abit. but if u add clear coat on it, it should be fine

awesome!!