Inspections and Blackened Headlights

[Coqui258]

Hey guys and gals of the board....

Quick question to those who have to get inspections yearly (or bi-yearly, whatever)... will Mazda fail your inspections if you blackened your headlight housing?

I haven't done it yet, but I was just wondering first...

Thanks!

 

[Dexter]

why?

 

[t3ase]

Mazda does inspections?

 

[Mike R]

PA has a yearly safety inspection. Modifed lights might fail.
(he lives in PA)

 

[Coqui258]

Yeah, here in PA you have to get inspections and emissions done every year. I have free inspections from Mazda, so that's who I mainly will go to... but I'm just being cautious...

 

[Dexter]

well firstly, what do you mean by blackened headlights? tinting them, or painting the surrounding housing black

 

[Coqui258]

ummmm... painting them black, like most people have done (you know, ghostP5's write-up kinda thing)

 

[Dexter]

why would that fail inspections?

CHEK IF OWNEAR HAZ PAINTED HEADLIGATS?

 

[ELEmental59437]

Seeing how some of Mazdas cars come like that, I dont see how they will even notice.. just tell them to look at a MSP if they say something.

 

[t3ase]

As long as you dont make it obvious that they're modified (read: no spicy orange mica paint jobs on your black mica) then I doubt they'd even notice. While black absorbs heat/light, I also doubt that the light dispersement will be different enough to warrant a second look.

 

[Coqui258]

Sounds good... the only reason I say that it could fail is because you have to take the whole housing out, and putting it back in will probably misalign the lights... feel me?

I'm not a punk, nor am I scared of the dealers... I'm just being cautious as to what I do...

 

[t3ase]

So.... the car was wrecked and the body shop didnt realign them correctly. Big deal.. adjust them out in their parking lot.

 

[Coqui258]

Sounds good... that's a good answer...

I guess I'm also scared to do it and then not like the outcome of the blackened headlights... then I won't be able to put it back to stock... Anyone have this prob?

 

[Dexter]

im sure if you did a good job but still didnt like it you could trade someone who wants black headlights without wanting to do the work.

 

[Coqui258]

I guess you're right... that's reasonable... doesn't affect vision at all right?

 

[Dexter]

...no...it doesnt...

 

[Coqui258]

cool... thanks for the info bro... i appreciate it

 

[t3ase]

ill give you uhm 1 bajillion times infinity.

 

[Coqui258]

Congratulations! You are the new highest bidder!

 

[t3ase]

of course, that is paid out $0.005/year for an infinite # of years.