Solution to foggy head lamps

jamario · Post by **jamario** » October 22nd, 2006, 7:28 pm

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Legato626 · Post by **Legato626** » October 24th, 2006, 1:13 pm

dont worry your head lights will go back to the crapy look it was. I get this nice little bottle called plastic x at k-mart every time I wash my car I put this on my head lights and it will stay like new for ever now. bottle will last you for a long time to.

Post by **Custommx3** » October 25th, 2006, 10:55 am

Theres also a FAQ showing other things that work

Lookwuticando · Post by **Lookwuticando** » October 28th, 2006, 11:53 am

I went to the trouble of taking mine off and oven baking the lenses off to clean inside...

then sanding down the lenses. Mine were pretty weathered. Looks better though

JapesMooney · Post by **JapesMooney** » November 6th, 2006, 8:30 pm

Err sorry... Oven baking the inside? This can't be what it sounds like. I'd love for you to expound.

jschrauwen · Post by **jschrauwen** » November 6th, 2006, 8:57 pm

JapesMooney wrote:Err sorry... Oven baking the inside? This can't be what it sounds like. I'd love for you to expound.

Once again, it's covered in the stickies and FAQ's.
Oven baking for the purpose of removing the lenses safely. Part of a process normally, as a prelude to gutting the inards in preparation for modding for projectors. The inside lense must be free of any ribbed portions that will taint the effectiveness of the future projectors. Others feel it necessary to remove the lense to clean the inside of it.

There's numerous products out there that will do the job of removing the hazing on the exterior of the lights. For over eleven years I've stuck with using Mother's wax remover/cleaner. I give them a good cleaning/polishing 2 or 3 times a year and they've remained good as new. One of the headlights on the 95 GS that I picked up this past fall had severe hazing (the other had been replaced with a new one by previous owner). By using that wax cleaner, you can't tell the difference between the original and the new unit. A little time and a lot of elbow grease and good as new.

If someone has fogging on the inside of the lense, then it's best to verify that the 90 degree rubber elbows (used for venting purposes) on the back of the light unit are clear of any debris and the openning is facing downward.

Lookwuticando · Post by **Lookwuticando** » November 6th, 2006, 9:02 pm

To clean the mirror chrome part inside, the lenses have to come off. The only way this is possible is with heat, they are glued together. Know what I mean?

solo_ryder · Post by **solo_ryder** » November 6th, 2006, 9:12 pm

Here is my solution for foggy lights:

jschrauwen · Post by **jschrauwen** » November 6th, 2006, 10:29 pm

Lookwuticando wrote:To clean the mirror chrome part inside, the lenses have to come off. The only way this is possible is with heat, they are glued together. Know what I mean?

I'm aware of that and do know what you mean. Normally, and I mean normally, the reflective lenses should never really need to be cleaned unless the venting or seals have been compromised in the past. If it has, than there probably isn't really much of an alternative but to get inside.

solo_ryder wrote:Here is my solution for foggy lights

E-Spec / J-Spec lights. Yep, got me the J-Spec ones. Certain E-Spec units were glass though.

hharb · Post by **hharb** » November 8th, 2006, 10:44 pm

you don't really need to clean the inside tho.. just cleaning the outside with a good plastic wax ( i use plastix by mgwire) should take about 10 mins to give you close to factory clean headlights.. i don't understand why somebody would go through the hassle of baking their headlights if they could get great results with a 10 mins buffing job.

Lookwuticando · Post by **Lookwuticando** » November 8th, 2006, 10:54 pm

Because I could look inside through the lenses and see dirt and crap in there, believe me it was a last resort. I tried little rags on a stick through the bulb hole first

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » November 8th, 2006, 10:55 pm

GS 27 works great too

hharb · Post by **hharb** » November 8th, 2006, 10:57 pm

haha.. so did you go with the baking? .. i just dont find it appealing putting my headlights in an oven.. there's got to be other ways to melt th sealant.. i'm gonna be making my own progectors and i'm using the original mx3 lens so i'd have to bake my headlights as well, but i have spare ones.

Tunes67 · Post by **Tunes67** » November 8th, 2006, 11:00 pm

Ok.. here is a old hotrodder trick for cleaning inside light assemblies that are sealed.. take 1 large 5 gallon bucket.. fill with water. Place light assemblies inside bucket.. submersing completely.. dump in 25 tablets of efferdent. Let sit over night. Rinse and dry. This little trick worked so well I had people thinking I had bought new assemblies for my old nova. You can scale this down of course and it would probably help to put some tablets directly inside the housings (assemblies) before submersing them.

Tunes67

Lookwuticando · Post by **Lookwuticando** » November 8th, 2006, 11:08 pm

The baking doesn't harm the lights at all...150 degrees for 15 minutes
in a pan...a few carrots and an onion, mmm-hmmmm....

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