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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zaskar" data-source="post: 276258" data-attributes="member: 183">Thanks tejay for your words of advise, duly noted.  Anyhow, i found a set of smashed smoked hella's some time back and studied how they achived the 'smoked effect'. Actually hella simply installed blacked coloured baffles in their driving lamps that makes the lamp appear black but does not affect the silver reflective surface of the lamp. Quite a smart solution while still maintaining the lamps overall performance. As for shortcuts, i'm not sure what methods you have seen as i'm sure there are many as you are the guru and have much more experience then me. Me i've only recently got into this DIY bandwagon.  So this is my shortcut, I bought some new lens from bmwlight.com as my old ones were quite pitted and i didn't want to en-danger anyone and be banned from this world. Carefully removed the old lens with a hot air gun, removed all traces of of old sealent, resealed the new lens with high temp sealent. Filled the completed lamp with a bit of water, apply a light vacuum pressure (my factory has a vacuum box) and made sure there were no leaks in the new seal. With that i had an almost new headlight, all cleaned up, watertight and clear too. But at the end of the day, its a DIY job and as such not safe. Don't worry tejay i have not mounted these lamps yet, but now i've got to reconsider some other parts that i got that were DIY by other forumers and i'm using on my car.</blockquote>

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