Tinting the highlights, will it work???

I've been thinking of ways to give my car a better look while trying to spend the least i can. Now i thought of the idea of maybe tinting my headlights with the lowest shade i can find (probably a 5-10%), and then using those ultra bright head lights, to give it that smoke or blackout look. now i was wondering if anyone have tried this and how it turned out, i don't wanna spend $15 on tint and then $20 more on headlights just to find out it don't work or look good at all.

This is from Jake's (EclipseRST) gallary, but are you talking about something like this?http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/102895DSC00173-med.JPG

You cant use window tint or tint spray on the headlights. They get to hot. But you can bye the plastic cover like in the pic above

I'm just wondering if they are legal...

Couple of my friends have them, cops have never bothered them. The only thing is that you will lose lights so a lot of them use brighter bulbs for the fogs and use those for additional light

I see, so you can actually just replace the plastic cover and get the blackout ones?? i thought you would have to replace the WHOLE headlight to get it to look like Jake's.

Here they are. http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/ProductDisplay/s-10101/storeId-10101/makeId-1000133/p-5689/c-10101/catalogId-10101

No the blackouts go over your headlight you dont replace anything. It will take you less than a minute to put them on. Check out ebay, sometimes they are on there

Around here, you wont get out of your driveway with headlight blackouts. :) But every area is different, you may get lucky.

yea thats my brothers car... see what i do to a car when i have a bunch of ricer shit to mess with :p but anyways those headlight covers i bought for my car ($34.99 at autozone) but they were too dark, couldnt really see the lights at night and i didnt want the hassle of taking them off and puting them on everyday so i just keep them on his car, never been pulled over for them... i have tail light blackouts also, and i really like those!

i had the headlight ones on my car but then i got pulled over too many times soo i juss sold them. i live in stockton cali.

Cali cops actually gives a fcuk about what people do to their cars?? i mean if neons are legal which distracts OTHER drivers, why not blackouts?? i live in PA so i'm ALL the way on the other side and you don't see too many mod-cars up here, just a couple of bodykits and thats it

where in pa do you live 50yen i live in lancaster and see more then enough shitty civics with unpainted bodykits and no performance mods.

I live in allentown, people around here are living in a ghetto trying to hook up their fcuked up civics and swear they're the shit, this one guy down the street spray painted his WHOLE civic black, it's the uglyest thing i've ever seen, but you know what type of people live around here if you know what i mean

did he spray the windows too lol. around here we have the people with bright yellow tegs with chrome fenderskirts altezzas daul fart cans projectors big huge wing 3 feet off the trunklid and yellow windows. i swear i describing an actual car that i see alot around here

oh i forgot that everybody pimps out old pos minivans around here too.

over here in cali, you cant have nothing. not neons no were in the car. any lights thats not part of the car in the outside needs to be taken off. cant blackout the lights rear or front. loud exhaust will pull you over, cant have darkish tint on your front windows, i use to get pulled over many times for loud bass. man it sucks over here. and theres the whole smog thing, and having only 87 89 91 octane at our pumps. you guys are the lucky ones.

huh?? i thought the neon lights were legal in cali, i work at circuit city and people always ask where it is legal to have neons and i always say cali. i thought street racing was very popular over there

its popular where i live in stockton very popular, but they cracked down by little airport we have and got a whole bunch of cars took. now it is heavy in vallejo from wat i hear. but nope over here you get pulled over if you have neons. they even make you take them off right in front of the cop. my friend had to rip the 2 ights on the hood of his car right at that moment and his tint in his front windows.

if some cop told me to rip something off my car i would tell him to goto hell. If he cant provide me with the tools for taking anything off then it aint comin off.