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      11-25-2013, 12:00 AM   #1
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"Eyelid" on headlights

So I recently added my first mod to my car, black kidney grills. Easy to install and took less than 10 minutes. But now I'm looking at the "eyelids" I would call them on the headlights, which are inside the actual light, and wondering if anyone has blacked these out at all. (I haven't seen any posts on the forum about this.)

A friend said he saw something where you could black it out from the outside.

Here's the before and after pictures of my car with the old and new grills.

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      11-25-2013, 03:48 AM   #2
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Dude I think you should totally do it, man itīs hot with them lashes!
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oneighty did a headlight mod with body coloured 'eyelids' in this case, it was EBII

not too keen on it to be honest
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Dude I think you should totally do it, man its hot with them lashes!
Bwahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!!
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I say leave the eyelids alone and do body colored reflectors if you haven't already done so.
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      11-26-2013, 04:28 PM   #6
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Dude I think you should totally do it, man itīs hot with them lashes!
Ahahhaha, definitely looks good.

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I say leave the eyelids alone and do body colored reflectors if you haven't already done so.
I was leaning toward leaving them, too, honestly.

Body colored reflectors? Do you have an example?
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      12-05-2013, 09:07 PM   #7
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my F30 is Alpine White and I have A black grill and Black eyelids and I get compliments every where I go. its up to you dude I think it looks awesome and concerning the reflectors do either the color of your car or black . My reflectors are black to match the color scheme that I have on the car. Post up whatever you do dude I'm interested....
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my F30 is Alpine White and I have A black grill and Black eyelids and I get compliments every where I go. its up to you dude I think it looks awesome and concerning the reflectors do either the color of your car or black . My reflectors are black to match the color scheme that I have on the car. Post up whatever you do dude I'm interested....
Well if I had an ugly baby I would probably still get to hear how cute he is.

Post a pic so we can see, maybe Iīm wrong.
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Got me some cf eyelids. LOVE EM!!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321176443398...84.m1497.l2649

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Yes, do it!
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Got me some cf eyelids. LOVE EM!!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321176443398...84.m1497.l2649

It looks exactly how I expected it to... no disrespect but, too tacky for my taste
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anyone have a sapphire black f30 with painted eyelids? Im thinking about doing it as well.
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Those don't fit right. You aren't supposed to be able to see the white around the lid.
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Those don't fit right. You aren't supposed to be able to see the white around the lid.
Yea, I took a chance a bought the eyelids off ebay, was disappointed by the fit but they'll do for now. From distance they look good enough, if it bothers me over time I'll prob replace them with the ones from RWCarbon
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I'm looking for the same thing but the only ones I found in black was black vinyl .
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