can you tint front head lights ?

1. Carlvtr88 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: May 2009 Birmingham Posts: 5801 1.1 106 XN Time, MK2 VTR 01. Ford Focus ST3 CP320

   #1 30th May 2011, 10:40

   I done a very light coat of tint spray on my rear light and it looked good. I was just wondering whether its illegal or not to slightly tint the front ones aswell or would it minimize light way too much.
   
   The po-po arent too bad round my area, they were right behind me the other day and never said nout about my rear tinted lights... ?
2. UKtom Established Member Joined: Sep 2010 Portsmouth Posts: 1936 Scirocco

   #2 30th May 2011, 10:44

   it will obv affect the brightness of your headlight, if i were you i'd just smoke the inserts.. look 100% better than spraying the glass
3. Carlvtr88 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: May 2009 Birmingham Posts: 5801 1.1 106 XN Time, MK2 VTR 01. Ford Focus ST3 CP320

   #3 30th May 2011, 10:45

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by UKtom it will obv affect the brightness of your headlight, if i were you i'd just smoke the inserts.. look 100% better than spraying the glass

   ah ok fair comment mate. Ill look into that then. Id rather ask than do something thats gonna look shit or be illegal
   
   The only reason i asked about brightness cause my back ones brightness doesnt seem to be affected
4. Bedford126 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2010 Morley, Leeds Posts: 8469 Civic ep3 type r powered by TDI NORTH

   #4 30th May 2011, 11:00

   Your best bet is to get a headlight from the scrappers and tint that to the darkness you want. Fit it to your car in daylight and take it to a mot tester with a beam setter / tester. They will test the tinted one against the non tinted and tell you if the output is still legal.
   
   But on the down side tinted headlights on the darker side will always be a pull for the police, They will hapily give you a producer and a forced mot within 20 day's. Not worth the hassle in my opinion but they do look mean as fuck on the right cars.
5. tingaling Frequent Poster Joined: Jan 2011 derby Posts: 992 Gold mk2 vtr

   #5 30th May 2011, 11:01

   You could probably get away with a very thin coat but will look sh*t I reckon smoke the inserts as said looks 100 times better
6. lilbenchy9192 Frequent Poster Joined: Jul 2010 Swindon Posts: 943 Renault clio dynamique tomtom 1.2

   #6 31st May 2011, 20:49

   i tried it once, thing i noticed is that were the tint spray i had worked realy well on the plastic lenses of the rear lights, when i tried it on the glass lenses it just went a little funny and was impossible to get to cover properly. think its cus the plastic is ruther and paint sticks better. could just be me though
7. Venns Established Member Joined: Jan 2011 Bridgwater, Somerset Posts: 1092 2001 Saxo 1.1

   #7 1st June 2011, 09:48

   I would smoke out the inserts, theres many guides on here on how to do it, one involves simply T cutting the mertalic paint off so its cheap as chips to do!
8. Phreaktwo Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2009 Wetwang, east yorkshire Posts: 372 BMW 320 e46

   #8 1st June 2011, 12:28

   Yeah, do the inserts bud! Looks loads better and it doesnt take too long either.