Zulu

Hi,

I wanted to know if anyone has painted the plastic spacer ring in the headlights of a 78-79 911? I was thinking of painting mine, but I'd like to see some pics and hear abou the results.

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Sean Hamilton

I'm not sure what you mean Bob, and no reply from others may indicate similar?

Do you mean the rubber gasket seal that is visible?
Or the outer shroud that covers the chrome? - but that is metal and colour match coded to the body?

jlkline

If you are referring to the rubber seal between the headlight assembly and the body, this part does not come from the factory with paint and is intentionally unpainted (as are all the seals) from a visual "spacing" standpoint in addition the mechanical function of the part. If painted, it might look OK for a very short time, but will chip,flake, and look generally bad shortly thereafter.

emcon5

I think he is talking about the grey plastic trim piece. I painted mine black about a year ago, and it still looks great. There are pics in the Pelican thread on the same topic here:
<a href="http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60964" target="_blank">http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60964</a>

Tom

jlkline

Tom, the link to the pic in your posting is a BBS Wheel <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

markusO

I think this spacer is only on the US non-sealed beam headlights, not the Euro lights.

Markus

emcon5

[quote]Originally posted by jlkline:
<strong>Tom, the link to the pic in your posting is a BBS Wheel </strong><hr></blockquote>

No idea how that happened . Here is the correct link. I will also fix my post.

<a href="http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60964" target="_blank">http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60964</a>

Tom