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Old Jan 3, 2012 | 07:37 AM
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Question about functionality of headlight design (pre-facelift)

I'm going to black out the housings on my fiancee's car over my vacation and while looking over the headlights I notice that there are dips in front of the beams and I wondered if they served a function. I find it hard to believe that the engineers randomly put those dips there just for looks when a regular flat surface probably would've been a cheaper mold to make and form when creating the headlights.

Has anyone who blacked out those dips noticed a difference in their light output/beam pattern? Obviously the point of blacking out the housings is to black everything out but I don't want to end up blacking out something functional. Thanks.
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As long as you don't paint the reflectors you will be ok
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Old Jan 3, 2012 | 10:01 PM
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As long as you don't paint the reflectors you will be ok
I never planned on it lol don't worry, I've been blacking our housings for years but just wanted to make sure there wasn't an actual function to those dips.
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