Rear headlight covershield? Reverse headlights? Man, where did you pick these terms up from? Let me help your naming convention...
The lights in the back of the car are the taillights. The taillights are the entire assembly which include the brake lights, rear running lights, reverse lights, turn signals, and (euro option) rear fog lights. The only headlights on your car are in the front.
Now when you're talking about removing the "covershield", I assume you're talking about the actual whole plastic taillight assembly. Yes, it's very easy to remove them on the e92. All you have to do is go in your trunk and remove the grey carpet covers to get access to the nuts holding the lights in place. You can pop the covers for the outer lights very easily without any special tools. To get to the tail light pieces on the trunk, you'll need to pop out all of the little push-locks that hold the grey liner to your inner trunk lid.
Once they're removed, there are a total of 8 nuts holding all of the pieces in place, 3 on each outer piece, and 1 on each trunk-mounted piece. Just unlplug the wiring harnesses and bulb mounts on each piece and unbolt the nuts and you're good to go.
As for which would look better, yea doing a professional job with VHT and clearcoat might look better, but I'd personally do Lamin-X tint, i f anything, because I wouldn't want to irreversably mod my taillights. Especially considering how hit and miss this mod is with people.
Last edited by stopper; 10-28-2012 at 11:09 PM..
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