What's everyone's thoughts on the best way to black out the headlights? The plan is to paint the grille shell and billet grille black and either vinyl or plasti dip the bumper. I tinted the taillights with spray but I am afraid I might have to upgrade my bulbs if I spray the headlights. I drive 32 miles to work on a lot of county roads so just searching for the best option without upgrading bulbs for now. Thought about aftermarket lights but don't want to worry about moisture a year or two down the road.
Blacking out the headlights
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massivespl
I'm not mean, I'm honest.
I would not black out the headlights at all. If u want black headlights buy new headlights that have black housing. Other wise your visibility will suck.
SRTH8R
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Black Depo Denali projectors are cheap. Bought the black housing headlights first, the adjusters were crap. Depo ones are very nice for the price.
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I went with Spyders black housings with smoked lenses. They do reduce light output a bit but I just upgraded my 35 watt HID's to 55 watt and that took care of it. The Spyders are pretty good quality. Here' a link to pictures. I tried to use TRS's Spyder Morimoto retrofits but they didn't work with these particular models. Still, these work well with HID in the projectors.
http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/threads/color-matched-denali-grill.79831/page-4
http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/threads/color-matched-denali-grill.79831/page-4
YukonXL04
The Riverboat
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Make your own. Factory housings blacked out with chrome shrouds View media item 24594
Make your own. Factory housings blacked out with chrome shrouds View media item 24594
Man I absolutely love the look on yours! I am not real familiar with the HID lights and how all the different levels of brightness. How are the HID'S to install because I will definitely have to upgrade my lights going with the Spyder lenses? @Red Rocket
How did you black out the factory housings? @YukonXL04. Did you actually pull the lenses apart and then reseal them?
Where did you get the Depo ones? Can you provide me a link? Trying to find them but no luck.Black Depo Denali projectors are cheap. Bought the black housing headlights first, the adjusters were crap. Depo ones are very nice for the price.
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That's one thing I am concerned about with blacking them out since I drive on county roads through woods to work. On the flip side I was concerned about moisture on the aftermarket lights after a year or 2.
YukonXL04
The Riverboat
Pulled the lenses off, put quad hid projectors in, trimmed shrouds to fit, painted housings black, installed shrouds, re sealed housings
HID plug-and-play kits like mine are extremely easy to do but you need to be sure to start with good quality projector headlights to start with. The factory Denali's are decent, as are Depo's and I found the Spyders are too. However most of the other aftermarket ones are crap and will not work good, and might even blind oncoming traffic. HID retrofits where you remove the projector assemblies and replace them with ones made specifically for HID are way harder to do. The best way is of course the more difficult method. Mine have decent cutoff lines and actually light the road well but not as well as a full retrofit.
SRTH8R
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Interesting, I didn't realize the lens could be pulled off. That's definitely an idea to keep in mind. Thanks for the info @YukonXL04
I think the plug-and-play would work for me. I did notice that the corners on your Yukon are black, whereas on the Spyders I am looking at have the amber corners. Is that something different for Denali's versus standard Yukon XL? @redrocket
OhioHoe
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Depo headlights are definitely better quality than most. I've heard that the spyder's are pretty good quality as well though.
Mine have amber reflectors too- that's a DOT requirement. They're black with smoke lenses though- so you can't see them as well. Those look like they're black with clear lenses.
Been looking at the Spyders since I liked the way they look on @Redrocket ride. Open to Depo or Spyder though. Just trying to find the black housing and smoked lights on a set of lights. Appreciate the feedback @OhioHoe
