Hey guys, I recently worked on a set of 2012 G37 sedan headlights and just wanted to post some pics, see what you guys think.

 

Nice work...I would prefer a less blue light though.

 

Here are some better pics:

 

ya, all the lights are too blue for my taste. but still, nice work.

 

I like it. Any DIY on this?

 

You may want to check your local laws, some cities/counties/states have laws in place that make it illegal for any car other than emergency vehicles to have blue lights on them. I like the idea, but would have left it with white LEDs. Looks clean though, nice work.

 

Appears you are decorating for Christmas a bit early! White looks much better.

 

Nice. Thank you for providing the custom color you painted the headlights (the shroud).

Some details please;

What color is the headlight internal housing? Flat? Gloss? Different type of black?
The shrouds, are they graphite? Or some family of grey?

The contrast of blue and grey is what your aiming for, so it looks nice. I would have done a different color too, but as long as you like the outcome thats what matters.

This visualization gave me a better idea of what I have planned.

 

Great point...most, if not all state laws prohibit blue lights on cars being used on public roads.

 

Awesome work, thats the color set-up im going to get this summer. I just feel like your led's are no where bright enough(from your day pic) to look good for day time running lights. 180-custom ones are super bright

 

Is that blue or purple (uv)? First pics look purple, later pics show blue.

What type of LEDs did you use, 5mm?

 

Looks really good, question though: Did you change the amber turn signal lens to clear with a blue bulb behind it? Isn't that extremely illegal?

 

Thanks!

Pretty simple, just remove the bumper and heat the headlight up with a heat gun to remove. I think there are plenty of headlight DIYs around already :P

Thanks!

the headlight housing is painted using krylon gloss black paint, and the shrouds are painted with duplicolor paint, I forgot the name but it's a slight metallic graphite.

Well the LEDs arent meant to be used as DRL, I didn't wire them up to be. However keep in mind the first set of pics are from an iphone camera, a little hard to capture the exact brightness of them. They are definitely very noticeable at night but in the day, but true, I would not use them as DRLs.

It's blue, but like a deep blue. Hard to capture exact color with an iphone camera, the later pics taken at night are a much better representation of how it looks in person. And yes they are 5mm wide angle LEDs. I made sure to use wide angle so there are not hotspots where it appears much brighter.

No, the turn signal bulb is a switchback LED, so it's white normally but turns amber when you flash. And yes I have resistors to prevent hyperflashing And the parking light on top is a white LED. The color somehow looks blue from the pics but that's from the blue LEDs messing with the camera.

 

nice work but not liking the blue also
sweet

 

looking good, but the blue is def 100% illegal. at least in NY.
unathorized blue light.
props for doing it yourself, nice work looks professional.
good luck with them.