Blacked-Out Tesla Headlights, Version 2: Matte Black Bezels and Gloss Frosted DRLs

0:01guys it's your boy John with back again we're with Greg if you want to do these

0:30Guys it's your boy John with back again. We're with Greg if you want to do these headlights

0:35He did the version 2 and I'm not sure the difference between his you know

0:40What we did to make it better than the original so you can see the

0:43original right here and they look great they still hold very great and

0:47no look at a lot of complements it's very unique but that was our Greg's first

0:53kind of a version and now we have version 2 so it

0:56so it's an improved version so if you do get your headlights done

0:58I'll show you what kind of

1:04to elevate the product.

1:08So you can see right here,

1:10now our frosted the frosted DRL

1:14is more white like the refresh.

1:16So let me show you a comparison.

1:18I know there's no lens on here

1:19but you can see this is the original kind.

1:21Kind of V1, you can kind of see it's a little opaque.

1:27There's a little little opacity to it

1:29but the new one, you can see,

1:30see it is now look at that it's a lot white and then it's also gloss so it has

1:39that you know the newer Tesla's had that gloss so it makes this I mean look at

1:43this right here this turn signal it looks so nice it's so

1:50and I think I did is I painted this side to black all right so yeah so version 2 we

1:59do have it so it is now you see how sharp that is the turn signal the previous

2:00You see how sharp that is?

2:03The turn signal.

2:05The previous version we had,

2:07we had to frosted.

2:08All the way over here.

2:10And try to get that look.

2:12It looks a pretty good.

2:14This look right here, it looks more refined.

2:18You can tell it kind floats

2:20in the mid air and this looks nicer.

2:22Another thing we also did is

2:24the paint chemistry on this one

2:26for the semi-gloss black.

2:27It was it was good, but we now went to a flatter black, right?

2:33And this is a matte black.

2:34Yeah, this is, it's matte all the way.

2:37. That one was semi-gloss.

2:38Yeah, semi-gloss. So this one just has semi-gloss, but flat black or matte black.

2:45It looks with a little texture too.

2:49So that looks really nice. And then when you get that gloss.

2:52I'm just saying, wow, that looks amazing.

2:54Let me look at

2:55at that.

2:56Look how bright that DRL looks and sharp.

2:59Man, it's going to look good.

3:07removing these and then putting the new bezels and then we'll move from there and for

3:14your service Greg you were talking about how how do you have your service

3:18usually done if someone wants to get their test headlights painted black would

3:22you they just ship the whole thing to you or you already have a pre-made one or

3:26how does that work usually they ship the whole thing to me but my goal is to

3:32made one or how does that work? Usually they ship the whole thing to me, but my

3:37goal is to have a pre-painted bezel. Kind of like this, right? Kind of like this. So that way,

3:43like for you, for example, we just swap it and that's it. It takes one one day rather than the whole two weeks they have to wait for the paint to dry completely dry.

3:47Nice, so we're gonna have these headlights already,

3:51or Gregg's already have it pre-made,

3:53and then once you're sending yours,

3:55you can just swap over.

3:56That way you're not waiting for the paint to dry

3:58and stuff like that, so that's really nice.

4:01Because I can just get my headlights,

4:04take it over here or have it shipped.

4:06There's already a, the bezel's already done.

4:10Should be quick, maybe it takes a few days

4:12to pack it and then send it back,

4:14so downtown will be the best.

4:17and no more than two days, so that's a,

4:20man, just look at that, that looks great.

4:24There's a previous headlights that were on in my car.

4:27Greg here is heating up the headlights.

4:29Now this is a very time consuming

4:32to require a lot of patience and skill to get that glue nice and soft and

4:37monitoring it so it doesn't like melt the plastic now the reason why Greg

4:41chooses to do this overter like and oven is this is more controlled he's

4:51a bit more controlled because I got experience with the gun but the other problem doesn't fit in my oven

4:58, but if you have the oven big enough do it at 220 degrees for 10 minutes and do not exceed 240 degrees

5:09that's Fahrenheit not Celsius yeah you want to just bake them you don't want them to cook

5:15yeah I seen sometimes like putting like the headlights sometimes certain areas get

5:20melted off and like like right he like the plastic or like the even the lens the

5:25integrity starts to get weaker when you bake them like that

5:38hot point before you put them in the oven always preheat the oven make sure the oven is already hot before you put

5:41and also put it on the wood block of wood something do not put

5:45put it on the metal the grill the grill will melt it yeah I learned my lesson there

5:53hey just I use a cooking pad it's like

5:54yeah yeah

6:01That one doesn't trick for me.

6:05We appreciate your experience and knowledge.

6:10But this one is too big to fit in my oven.

6:19It's good craftsm ship. Just seeing you heat up the adhesive.

6:25take your time and don'ts a rush. Try to get more headlights. You do it hand built.

6:35It should be fine.

6:36Right.

6:37So yeah, the

6:41usually you say you heat it up for a good amount of time like 30 minutes 20 minutes

6:44this is about 5 minutes

6:49but if it's the original glue it's 10 minutes

6:52the original glue is perma-sealed

6:55so it's a little different

7:00yeah these are obviously you can say they're already blacked out

7:03Yeah so yours in his your case if you have a stock one it's gonna have that O.

7:11EM glue that's a lot harder and that is a pain in the butt to take off.

7:33Oh, look at the insides, bam, all those LEDs, something about just showing the inner

7:54guts, it just looks really nice, I mean look at that looks like a little spider-man

8:00like web right here and then kind of seeing the PCP board right there too.

8:07That's what controls it, this is what controls the DRLs and the turn signals.

8:13Now the projector is a separate.

8:23This is the projector bowl.

8:26Of course we have the projector.

8:27We're getting that cleaned up a little bit.

8:29Now there was some dust on it. We're making it all cleaned up, and this is

8:32how the bi-Xenon works. It has a little flap in. The motor actuator, it flaps it open.

8:38Yeah, we're getting nice and clean, and of course you can check out where it's

8:42clean nice and good. But you can see how it has like little ripples. If you

8:47guys want a really sharp projector line, a great does offer clear lens so your

8:53outputs even sharper and clearer but the OEM one does have those little ripples

8:59little golf balls shaped there you have it all right just a little update we have

9:03so update we have the cover inside the lens you can get a better look of it and

9:10wow looks great and the only thing that's holding these things together is on

9:18the back and screws but other than that I'll see one

9:25most of the clamping is gonna be from the adhesive and then the screw in the

9:31From the adhesive and then the screw in the back. All right

9:34So next thing Greg's gonna do is he's gonna get the nice seal now

9:38We tried more remoto and and we tried dynamics and by far dynamics seems to be. Be a higher quality

9:45so definitely

9:49Did extra 2% so definitely worth it

9:59We're gonna, we're going to sealer on all this headlight and then we're going to be golden

10:07I bet you a lot of glue seep out

10:10No

10:13That's okay, get all this cleaning

10:16All right, so we have the sealant nice and late flat

10:18We're putting the the lens on top and then we're just applying that heat

10:23This is another time consuming process, but you know, it's a labor of love you do it slow

10:28you increments to get that nice finish no rushing here and just look at that it's

10:30to get that nice finish no rushing here look at that just beautiful the dynamic

10:39sealants is getting nice and warm where you can be able to press with some

10:42pressure on it and then you have these these tabs where like right here where it

10:47locks it into place once we get it alright so then the glue is nice and

10:53heated up and this is where we start pressing it to get those tabs beautiful

10:57there we go you need they're nice seal hands of a

11:01Get that nice seal

11:09Hands of a craftsman

11:11Geez man this looks so good. the we have everything all the tabs in right here then we have additional

11:20clamps just to give it that little mmm that way it's gonna seal nice and good so we're

11:25gonna have that kind of chill a little bit and we're gonna be working on the next headlight

11:29There you go slide it in like this

11:42Right for

11:42For the headlight of course you got that one ball right here one right here

11:46One on the little side right there and then we get one on at the bottom right there

11:53and jeez it's like how evil that looks

11:58Let's see how it looks like with the lights turned on.

12:11Oh, let me just unlock it.

12:16So that's lock.

12:19Ooh.

12:21So, yeah, it's lined up nice and evenly.

12:25Um, it looks more diffused than the original lights, but, um, yeah, I, I mean, not

12:33not much to say, it, it looks great.

12:35Look, look at that, some lighting, yeah, you can check it out, whoo!

12:48It concludes that we have the of course we- we

12:55the daytime running- running lights looking good, and just looks everything looks.

13:02good and just looks everything looks super proper with this new look front end

13:07looks really mean and overall really like I know the sun's

13:11really blowing out right now so I might have to take some shots of it being dust

13:15but yeah what a great right what a great look right here it is I know there's a lot

13:20background noise hopefully you guys can hear me and check out the lights see if

13:27you get a good focus on that just looking really nice and the white

13:48yeah contact Greg if you guys have any questions or want to do this with your

13:52headlights I mean definitely looks better in person the way it is but yeah

13:58and biddy is not too shabby