Black or Silver headlight surrounds?

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123BillyB

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Hi Guys,

Going to get round to doing my AE's soon and rather than try to source clear hockeys (which seem to be as rare as hens teeth) I was going to use the same smoke tint on them as I did with the rear lights and side indicators.

As my Bi-Colour rims are silver/black and car is Sterling Grey I'm still in two minds if I should spray the inner surrounds black (which I think will better suit the overall look) or leave them silver. I think the deciding factor will be if spraying them black affects the light spread (as we all know Z4 headlights aren't brilliant at the best of times) so my questions to all the guys who have carried out the AE mod and sprayed inners black is has that affected the brightness of the lights in any way?

Also if you feel doesn't affect the brightness, what type of black spray did you use as I'm pretty sure normal spray paint will deteriorate over time with the heat HiD's give off and I have no intention of opening them again.

Thanks,

Billy
 
It won't affect your headlights as the black/silver surround is not part of the reflector. They are projector lamps.

Each to their own but imho changing to black is just telling the world you don't have a 3.0 engine or you fitted the wrong lights.

I have a 3.0 Sterling grey with clear indicators and think they look spot on in silver with that body colour
 
Sterling Grey = Must have silver inserts ;)
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CJ thanks for your reply and I didn't realise the silver surrounds was a 3 litre thing but having just looked at sub 3 litre Z4's on Auto Trader I see your right. I think I never noticed that before as I only ever looked at 3 litre Zed's when I was buying my car.

Guess you have answered my question and I'll leave them silver.

Cheers mate :thumbsup:
 
You're welcome.

When you have the lights open be really careful not to touch the silver. It fingerprints and is all too easy to damage
 
I think silver lights with that silver grill looks a bit tacky to be honest, like toy car headlights,same with the 3 series, I think black surrounds with the chrome rings look much better.
 
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